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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LLNL’s Doerfert named Better Scientific Software fellow

Computer scientist Johannes Doerfert was recognized as a 2023 BSSw fellow. He plans to use the funding to create videos about best practices for interacting with compilers.

Awards | Careers | Compiler Technology | HPC Systems and Software | Software Engineering

two people inside the NIF target chamber replica


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Lawrence Livermore’s Discovery Center to reopen to visitors

Discovery Center reopens to visitors on Feb. 1, after nearly three years of closure due to COVID-19, featuring renovations and new exhibits.

Outreach | Students

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Source: LLNL News

Skywing: open-source software aids collaborative autonomy applications

Collaborative autonomy software apps allow networked devices to detect, gather, identify and interpret data; defend against cyber-attacks; and continue to operate despite infiltration.

AI/ML | Computational Science | Critical Infrastructure | Cyber Security | Data Science | Open-Source Software

DeepRacer car positioned on the blue track with a dashed yellow center line and white lines marking the outside of the lane


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Video: Hackathon puts machine learning in the driver’s seat

From our fall 2022 hackathon, watch as participants trained an autonomous race car with reinforcement learning algorithms.

AI/ML | Cloud Services | Data Science | Deep Learning | Hackathons | Information Technology | Multimedia | Scientific Cloud Computing

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New HPC4EI project to create 'digital twin' models for aerospace manufacturing

A new collaboration will leverage advanced LLNL-developed software to create a “digital twin” of the near-net shape mill-products system for producing aerospace parts.

AI/ML | Collaborations | Computational Science | Data Science | Materials Science

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Bronis de Supinski named 2022 ACM fellow

The ACM recognized him for his contributions to the design of large-scale systems and their programming systems and software.

Awards | Careers

Edna Vienop loads a tape on the IBM 704


Source: Science & Technology Review

High Performance Storage System: Taking the long view

A multidecade, multi-laboratory collaboration evolves scalable long-term data storage and retrieval solutions to survive the march of time.

Collaborations | HPC Systems and Software | Storage, File Systems, and I/O

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Source: Science & Technology Review

Cognitive simulation supercharges scientific research

Adding machine learning and other artificial intelligence methods to the feedback cycle of experimentation and computer modeling can accelerate scientific discovery.

AI/ML | CogSim/AI/ML Hardware | Data Science | Scientific ML

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MFEM workshop showcases application variety and broad impact

The second annual MFEM workshop brought together the project’s global user and developer community for technical talks, Q&A, and more.

Computational Math | Computational Science | Discrete Mathematics | Events | Open-Source Software | Outreach | PDE Methods | Software Libraries

a participant in the hackathon room examines the DeepRacer car


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Hackathon puts machine learning in the driver’s seat

In a time-trial competition, participants trained an autonomous race car with reinforcement learning algorithms.

AI/ML | Cloud Services | Data Science | Deep Learning | Hackathons | Information Technology | Scientific Cloud Computing

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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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Celebrating 10 years of hackathons

After 10 years and 33 hackathons, nothing can stop this beloved tradition.

Data Science | Hackathons | Software Engineering | Students

group of diverse Computing employees posing at the Lab's 2019 Tapia Conference recruiting booth


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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 | Community | Events | HPC Architectures | HPC Systems and Software | Hybrid/Heterogeneous | Outreach | Software Engineering

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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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IPDPS 2022 event calendar

LLNL participates in the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) on May 30 through June 3.

AI/ML | Computational Math | Data Science | Events | HPC Architectures | HPC Systems and Software | Programming Languages and Models | Resource and Workflow Management | Storage, File Systems, and I/O

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CASC team wins best paper at visualization symposium

Winning the best paper award at PacificVis 2022, a research team has developed a resolution-precision-adaptive representation technique that reduces mesh sizes, thereby reducing the memory and storage footprints of large scientific datasets.

AI/ML | Awards | Computational Math | Data Compression | Data Movement and Memory | Data Science | Discrete Mathematics | HPC Systems and Software | Open-Source Software

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Kathleen Shoga leads the way for SC21 Student Cluster Competition

With a history of student participation and committee service, LLNL computer scientist Kathleen Shoga chaired this year’s competition.

Cluster Management | Events | HPC Systems and Software | Outreach | Students

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SC21 event calendar

LLNL is participating in the 33rd annual Supercomputing Conference (SC21), which will be held both virtually and in St. Louis on November 14–19, 2021.

Data Science | Deep Learning | Emerging Architectures | Events | HPC Systems and Software

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MFEM team hosts first community workshop

The MFEM software library provides high-order mathematical algorithms for large-scale scientific simulations. An October workshop brought together MFEM’s global user and developer community for the first time.

Computational Math | Computational Science | Discrete Mathematics | Events | Exascale | Open-Source Software | Outreach | PDE Methods | Software Libraries