LLNL Computing’s ground-breaking research and development activities, innovative technologies, and world-class staff are often featured in various media outlets.
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Source: LLNL News
DOE funds LLNL project to improve differentiation of extreme-scale science apps
Researchers will address the challenge of efficiently differentiating large-scale applications for the DOE by building on advances in LLNL’s MFEM finite element library and MIT’s Enzyme AD tool.
Computational Math Computational Science Discrete Mathematics Mathematical Optimization Open-Source Software
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ESGF launches effort to upgrade climate projection data system
The Earth System Grid Federation, a multi-agency initiative that gathers and distributes data for top-tier projections of the Earth’s climate, is preparing a series of upgrades to make using the data easier and faster while improving how the information is curated.
Climate Collaborations Computational Science Data Management Data Science Open-Source Software
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Source: LLNL Computing
CASC collaboration with Duke University wins best paper award
Presented at the 2022 International Conference on Computational Science, the team’s research introduces metrics that can improve the accuracy of blood flow simulations.
Awards Biology/Biomedicine Collaborations Computational Science Hydrodynamics
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Source: YouTube
Video: Exascale Computing Facility Modernization project
Preparing the Livermore Computing Center for El Capitan and the exascale era of supercomputers required an entirely new way of thinking about the facility’s mechanical and electrical capabilities.
Emerging Architectures Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Multimedia
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Source: LLNL News
The people of stockpile stewardship are the key to LLNL’s success
The third article in a series about the Lab's stockpile stewardship mission highlights the people who make it happen.
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Source: LLNL News
Scientific discovery for stockpile stewardship
The second article in a series about the Lab's stockpile stewardship mission highlights computational models, parallel architectures, and data science techniques.
AI/ML Computational Science Data Science HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Lasers and Optics Materials Science Software Engineering
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Source: LLNL News
Developing technology to keep the nuclear stockpile safe, secure, and reliable
The first article in a series about the Lab's stockpile stewardship mission highlights the roles of computer simulations and exascale computing.
Computational Math Computational Science Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Hydrodynamics Lasers and Optics Materials Science
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Source: LLNL News
LLNL to cooperate with University of Utah's one oneAPI Center of Excellence
The new oneAPI Center of Excellence will involve the Center for Applied Scientific Computing and accelerate ZFP compression software to advance exascale computing.
Collaborations Data Compression Data Science Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Open-Source Software
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Source: Science & Technology Review
S&TR cover story: The ACES in our hand
The Adaptive Computing Environment and Simulations (ACES) project will advance fissile materials production models and reduce risk of nuclear proliferation.
AI/ML Computational Science Containerization Data Science Information Technology Scientific ML
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Source: Science & Technology Review
S&TR highlight: Expanded capabilities and opportunities for VBL code
The latest generation of Livermore’s workhorse laser physics code promises full integration across research and operations applications.
Collaborations Computational Science Lasers and Optics Software Engineering
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Source: LLNL Computing
Celebrating 10 years of hackathons
After 10 years and 33 hackathons, nothing can stop this beloved tradition.
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Source: LLNL Computing
Tapia2022 event calendar
LLNL participates in the CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference (Tapia2022) on September 7–10.
Careers Data Science DevOps Diversity Events HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Outreach Software Engineering
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Source: LLNL Computing
Developer Day returns for the sixth year
Computing’s annual Developer Day held a hybrid event on July 21 with lightning talks, a town hall discussion, and guest speakers.
Careers Cyber Research Cyber Security Emerging Architectures Events Quantum Computing Software Engineering Software Quality Assurance
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Sandia leverages Livermore’s open-source software for new website
A Sandia National Laboratories team has adapted Livermore’s software.llnl.gov website to showcase their own open-source software. Both projects are developed and hosted on GitHub.
Collaborations Open-Source Software Software Engineering Web Technologies
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Source: Exascale Computing Project
LLNL ATDM addresses software infrastructure needs for multiple communities
The Advanced Technology Development and Mitigation program within the Exascale Computing Project shows that the best way to support the mission is through open collaboration and a sustainable software infrastructure.
Computational Math Exascale HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Open-Source Software Performance, Portability, and Productivity Programming Languages and Models Resource and Workflow Management Software Build and Installation
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Source: LLNL News
LLNL joins forces with supercomputing centers in Germany, the UK and the US to form IASC
LLNL has signed a memorandum of understanding with HPC facilities in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the U.S., jointly forming the International Association of Supercomputing Centers.
Collaborations HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Outreach
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Video: HPC Tech Shorts features Greg Becker and Spack
LLNL's Greg Becker spoke with HPC Tech Shorts to explain how Spack's binary cache works. The video “Get your HPC codes installed and running in minutes using Spack’s Binary Cache” runs 15:11.
HPC Systems and Software Multimedia Open-Source Software Software Build and Installation
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Source: LLNL News
Going deep: new ground motion model more accurately simulates earthquakes, explosions
LLNL scientists have created a new adjoint waveform tomography model that more accurately simulates earthquake and explosion ground motions. The paper, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, was selected for an Editor’s Highlight.
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Source: HPCwire
Supercomputer models explosives critical for nuclear weapons
Researchers from LLNL's Energetic Materials Center and Purdue University have leveraged LLNL supercomputing to better understand the chemical reactions that detonate explosives that are “critical to managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile.”
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Source: LLNL News
GridDS: An open-source, data-science toolkit for energy
More than 100 million smart meters have been installed in the U.S. to record and communicate electric consumption, voltage, and current to consumers and grid operators. LLNL has developed GridDS to help make the most of this data.
AI/ML Critical Infrastructure Data Management Data Science Open-Source Software
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Source: software.llnl.gov
Sign up for RADIUSS AWS tutorials coming in August
Learn how to use LLNL software in the cloud. In August, we will host tutorials in collaboration with AWS on how to install and use these projects on AWS EC2 instances. No previous experience necessary.
Education Events HPC Systems and Software Open-Source Software Outreach Scientific Cloud Computing Software Engineering Software Libraries
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Source: Science & Technology Review
Latest S&TR issue highlights Kathryn Mohror
Computer scientist Kathryn Mohror is among LLNL's recipients of the Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program awards.
Awards Careers Fault Tolerance and Resilience HPC Systems and Software Storage, File Systems, and I/O
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Source: LLNL News
LLNL cancer research goes exascale
An LLNL team will be among the first researchers to perform work on the world’s first exascale supercomputer—Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier—when they use the system to model cancer-causing protein mutations.
AI/ML Biology/Biomedicine Computational Science Data Science Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software
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Source: Data Science Institute
Panel discussion spotlights COVID-19 R&D
The Data Science Institute's career panel series continued on June 28 with a discussion of LLNL’s COVID-19 research and development. Four data scientists talked about their work in drug screening, protein–drug compounds, antibody–antigen sequence analysis, and risk factor identification.
Bioinformatics Biology/Biomedicine Careers Computational Science Data Science
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Source: LLNL News
UC Merced students work with LLNL mentors on potential new drugs to combat COVID-19
For the first time in the DSC series since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, Lab mentors visited the college campus to provide in-person guidance for five teams of UC Merced students.
Biology/Biomedicine Computational Science Data Science Students