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Video: HPC tutorials playlist updated for 2024
Follow along at your own pace through tutorials of several open-source HPC software projects.
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HPC4Mfg workshop gathers innovators for collaborative discussions
The event attracted more than 60 attendees from diverse sectors and featured discussions aimed at fostering new collaborations with various DOE offices and national labs.
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Podcast: History of LLNL supercomputing
Listen to the latest Big Ideas Lab podcast episode on LLNL supercomputing! This article contains links to the podcast on Spotify and Apple.
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LLNL’s Mohror honored with prestigious technical computing award
The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) has awarded Kathryn Mohror with its prestigious Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing (EWLTC) Award.
Awards Exascale Fault Tolerance and Resilience HPC Systems and Software Performance, Portability, and Productivity Storage, File Systems, and I/O
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Lab scientists win R&D 100 awards
An optics element team and two open-source software teams (UMap and UnifyFS) are LLNL's winners of this year's awards.
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LLNL, DOD, NNSA dedicate Rapid Response Laboratory and supercomputing system to accelerate biodefense
The collaboration has enabled expanding systems of the same architecture as LLNL’s upcoming exascale supercomputer, El Capitan, featuring AMD’s cutting-edge MI300A processors.
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SIGGRAPH recognizes LLNL scientist and collaborators with Best Paper Award
Developed by LLNL, Colorado, and Purdue researchers, a new approach eases the implementation of curved geometries into computing simulations.
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ISCP projects make machine learning advantages tangible
To keep employees abreast of the latest tools, two data science–focused projects are under way as part of Lawrence Livermore’s Institutional Scientific Capability Portfolio.
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 14 | June 2024
This issue highlights some of CASC’s contributions to the DOE's Exascale Computing Project.
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LLNL and BridgeBio announce trials for supercomputing-discovered cancer drug
In a milestone for supercomputing-aided drug design, LLNL and BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics today announced clinical trials have begun for a first-in-class medication that targets specific genetic mutations implicated in many types of cancer.
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Evolving at the speed of exascale
Bugs, broken codes, or system failures require added time for troubleshooting and increase the risk of data loss. LLNL has addressed failure recovery by developing the Scalable Checkpoint/Restart (SCR) framework.
Awards Exascale Fault Tolerance and Resilience HPC Systems and Software Open-Source Software Storage, File Systems, and I/O
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S&TR cover story: The Laboratory’s habit of innovation
LLNL’s HPC capabilities play a significant role in international science research and innovation, and Lab researchers have won 10 R&D 100 Awards in the Software–Services category in the past decade.
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Video: Supercomputer problems you’ve never heard of
Two LLNL teams have come up with ingenious solutions to a few of the more vexing difficulties. For their efforts, they’ve won awards coveted by scientists in the technology fields.
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Register for HPC tutorials in August
Learn how to use a modern, open-source HPC software stack! Throughout August, join our tutorials on how to install and use several projects on AWS EC2 instances. No previous experience is necessary, and everyone is welcome.
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Video: How will El Capitan run?
Discover how the software architecture and storage systems that will drive El Capitan’s performance will help LLNL and the NNSA Tri-Labs push the boundaries of computational science.
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LLNL’s El Capitan debuted on new Top500 list of world’s most powerful supercomputers
Unveiled at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany, the June 2024 Top500 lists three systems with identical components as registering 19.65 petaflops on the High Performance Linpack benchmark, ranking them among the world’s 50 fastest.
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GUIDE team develops approach to redesign antibodies against viral pandemics
In a groundbreaking development for addressing future viral pandemics, a multi-institutional team involving LLNL researchers has successfully combined an AI-backed platform with supercomputing to r
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ISC24 event calendar
LLNL participates in the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC24) on May 12–16.
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LLNL team accelerates multi-physics simulations with El Capitan predecessor systems
LLNL researchers have achieved a milestone in accelerating and adding features to complex multiphysics simulations run on GPUs, a development that could advance HPC and engineering.
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Road to El Capitan 6: Modern compilers
Compilers translate human-programmable source code into machine-readable code. Building a compiler is especially challenging in the exascale era.
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Road to El Capitan 7: Packaging for everyone
Backed by Spack’s robust functionality, the Packaging Working Group manages the relationships between user software and system software.
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Road to El Capitan 10: Collaboration is key
The El Capitan Center of Excellence provides a conduit between national labs and commercial vendors, ensuring that the exascale system will meet everyone’s needs.
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Road to El Capitan 8: Prepping for performance
The Tools Working Group delivers debugging, correctness, and performance analysis solutions at an unprecedented scale.
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Road to El Capitan 9: Messaging and math
The advent of accelerated processing units presents new challenges and opportunities for teams responsible for network interconnects and math libraries.
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Todd Gamblin named to HPCwire’s 'People to Watch' list for 2024
The high performance computing publication HPCwire has selected LLNL computer scientist Todd Gamblin as one of its “People to Watch” in HPC for 2024. The program recognized 12 HPC professionals who “play leading roles in driving innovation within their particular fields, making significant contributions to society as a whole.”