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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Summer hackathon tradition continues virtually
Each new season brings another hackathon, and Computing’s 2021 summer event took place on August 12–13.
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Former interns share insights during career panel
A new career panel series continued with a session featuring former LLNL interns who converted to full-time employment at the Lab.

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Podcast: Talking Drupal features developer Shelane French
A new episode of the Talking Drupal podcast features LLNL developer Shelane French, who discussed how Computing uses Drupal and Docksal in the Lab's web environment.
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LLNL, ATOM, Purdue introduce students to drug design modeling
LLNL and Purdue are partnering to speed up drug design using computational tools under the Accelerating Therapeutic Opportunities in Medicine project.

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Dev Day makes the most of virtual format
Held virtually on July 15, our fifth annual Developer Day featured lightning talks, a technical deep dive, “quick takes” on remote-development resources, presentations about career paths, and a career development panel discussion.
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Source: Science & Technology Review
Exascale software lays foundation for discovery of new materials
The Center for Non-Perturbative Studies of Functional Materials under Non-Equilibrium Conditions advances high performance computing software to support novel materials discovery.
Computational Science Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Materials Science

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Podcast: Jeff Hittinger: leading by example
In this episode (32:00), LLNL's Jeff Hittinger talks about scientific success, leadership, and the tricks he’s cultivated for communicating science to broader audiences through the Livermore Ambassador Lecture series.

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DOE funds 13 new HPC4EI projects
The Department of Energy announced awards of $3.7 million for 13 new High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) projects, including a collaboration involving LLNL targeted at improving CO2 conversion.

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Career panel series kicks off with women in Computing leadership roles
More than 100 LLNL staff and students gathered virtually for the first session of a new career panel series inspired by the annual Women in Data Science conference and sponsored by the Data Science Institute.

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New heavy vehicle design increases fuel efficiency, cuts carbon emissions
LLNL engineers have demonstrated that aerodynamically integrated vehicle shapes decrease body-axis drag in a crosswind, creating large negative front pressures that effectively “pull” the vehicle forward against the wind, much like a sailboat.

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Research proves quantum computing errors correlated, ties them to cosmic rays
Researchers have found that fluctuations in qubits can be highly correlated. The team also linked tiny error-causing perturbations in the qubits’ charge state to the absorption of cosmic rays.

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Virtual Data Science Challenge tackles asteroid detection though machine learning
UC Merced students engaged with LLNL mentors and peers to address a challenge problem, using machine learning to identify potentially hazardous asteroids that could pose a threat to humanity.
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Video: Developing scientific code on the world’s fastest computers at LLNL
Our use of supercomputers is enabled by the codes developed to model and simulate complex physical phenomena on massively parallel architectures.
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LLNL team looks at nuclear weapon effects for near-surface detonations
Using the Miranda code and Ruby supercomputer, LLN takes a closer look at how nuclear weapon blasts close to Earth’s surface create complications in their effects and apparent yields.

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Video: COVID-19 detection and analysis with Nisha Mulakken
On a recent video episode of The Data Standard Podcast, biostatistician Nisha Mulakken discusses the Lawrence Livermore Microbial Detection Array (LLMDA) system, which has detection capability for all variants of SARS-CoV-2.

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ISC21 event calendar
LLNL participates in the digital ISC High Performance Conference (ISC21) on June 24 through July 2.
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Video: Flux – enabling modern supercomputing workflows
This video describes Flux, an open-source software framework that manages and schedules computing workflows to maximize available resources to run applications faster and more efficiently.
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LLNL featured as a top STEM workplace by AISES
LLNL was honored by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Winds of Change magazine as one of the Top 50 STEM Workplaces in 2021, as an organization setting the standard for indigenous STEM professionals.

Source: Department of Energy
DOE blog celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
The Department of Energy recently published a blog post celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, featuring LLNL Computing employee Jeene Villanueva.

Source: Data Science Institute
Video: DSI virtual seminar series debuts on YouTube
The Data Science Institute's seminar series has transitioned to a virtual format, and a playlist of recently recorded seminars is available on the Livermore Lab Events YouTube channel.

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Conference papers highlight importance of data security to machine learning
The 2021 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition features two papers co-authored by an LLNL researcher targeted at understanding robust machine learning models.
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Advanced Data Analytics for Proliferation Detection shares technical advances
The ADAPD program held a virtual meeting to highlight science-based, data-driven analysis work to advance AI innovation and AI-enabled systems to enhance the U.S. nuclear proliferation detection activities.

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Video: The U.S. Exascale Computing Project
In a talk recorded for the 2020 LLNL Computing Virtual Expo, Computing principal deputy associate director and ECP deputy director Lori Diachin describes the ECP’s goals and the Laboratory's role.
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A winning strategy for deep neural networks
New research debuting at ICLR 2021 demonstrates a learning-by-compressing approach to deep learning that outperforms traditional methods without sacrificing accuracy.
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LLNL, IBM, Red Hat join forces to explore HPC resource management interface
LLNL, IBM, and Red Hat will develop best practices for interfacing HPC schedulers and cloud orchestrators in preparation for supercomputers that use cloud technologies.
Collaborations HPC Systems and Software Open-Source Software Resource and Workflow Management