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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.
Biology/Biomedicine CogSim/AI/ML Hardware Collaborations Computational Science Data Science Emerging Architectures HPC Systems and Software Scientific ML
Source: Science & Technology Review
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
Source: Science & Technology Review
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.
AI/ML Awards Biology/Biomedicine Computational Science Data Compression Data Science Exascale HPC Systems and Software Open-Source Software Power Management Programming Languages and Models Scientific ML
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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.
Awards Data Compression Data Science Exascale HPC Systems and Software Multimedia Open-Source Software Performance, Portability, and Productivity Power Management
Source: High Performance Computing Innovation Center
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.
Emerging Architectures Exascale HPC Systems and Software Multimedia Open-Source Software Performance, Portability, and Productivity Resource and Workflow Management Software Build and Installation Software Libraries Storage, File Systems, and I/O
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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.
Awards Emerging Architectures Events Exascale HPC Systems and Software
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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
AI/ML Biology/Biomedicine Collaborations Computational Science Data Science HPC Systems and Software Scientific ML
Source: LLNL Computing
ISC24 event calendar
LLNL participates in the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC24) on May 12–16.
Compiler Technology Debugging and Correctness Emerging Architectures Events HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Performance, Portability, and Productivity Programming Languages and Models Scientific Cloud Computing Software Build and Installation
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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.
Computational Math Computational Science Data Movement and Memory Emerging Architectures Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Hydrodynamics Open-Source Software Performance, Portability, and Productivity
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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.
Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Networking and Interconnects Programming Languages and Models Software Engineering Software Libraries
Source: LLNL Computing
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.
Co-Design Collaborations Emerging Architectures Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous
Source: LLNL Computing
Road to El Capitan 8: Prepping for performance
The Tools Working Group delivers debugging, correctness, and performance analysis solutions at an unprecedented scale.
Debugging and Correctness Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Performance, Portability, and Productivity
Source: LLNL Computing
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.
Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Open-Source Software Software Build and Installation
Source: LLNL Computing
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.
Compiler Technology Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Programming Languages and Models
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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.”
Source: Pleasanton Weekly
LLNL set to deploy world’s fastest supercomputer this year
The system will enable researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration weapons design laboratories to create models and run simulations, previously considered challenging, time-intensive or impossible, for the maintenance and modernization of the United States’ nuclear weapons stockpile.
Source: LLNL Computing
New research in time integration methods recognized at IEEE conference
Can novel mathematical algorithms help scientific simulations leverage hardware designed for machine learning? A team from LLNL’s Center for Applied Scientific Computing aimed to find out.
CogSim/AI/ML Hardware Computational Math Emerging Architectures ODE Methods
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SC23 event calendar
LLNL is participating in the 35th annual Supercomputing Conference (SC23), which will be held both virtually and in Denver on November 12–17, 2023.
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ECP co-design center wraps up seven years of collaboration
The Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations has developed innovative mathematical algorithms for the DOE’s next generation of supercomputers.
Co-Design Collaborations Computational Math Discrete Mathematics Emerging Architectures Exascale HPC Systems and Software Mathematical Optimization Open-Source Software PDE Methods Performance, Portability, and Productivity Proxy Apps Software Engineering
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Meeting of the minds: advanced math for the exascale era
Hosted at LLNL, the Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations’ annual event featured breakout discussions, more than two dozen speakers, and an evening of bocce ball.
Co-Design Computational Math Computational Science Discrete Mathematics Earth Systems Emerging Architectures Events Exascale HPC Systems and Software
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Road to El Capitan 5: A framework for complex workflows
Flux, next-generation resource and job management software, steps up to support emerging use cases.
Emerging Architectures Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Open-Source Software Resource and Workflow Management
Source: LLNL Computing
Road to El Capitan 3: The right operating system
The Tri-Lab Operating System Stack (TOSS) ensures other national labs’ supercomputing needs are met.
Co-Design Collaborations Emerging Architectures Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous
Source: LLNL Computing
Road to El Capitan 2: All the moving parts
Siting a supercomputer requires close coordination of hardware, software, applications, and Livermore Computing facilities.
Co-Design Emerging Architectures Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Performance, Portability, and Productivity Resource and Workflow Management
Source: LLNL Computing
Road to El Capitan 4: Storage in the exascale era
Innovative hardware provides near-node local storage alongside large-capacity storage.
Co-Design Collaborations Emerging Architectures Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Open-Source Software Storage, File Systems, and I/O