LLNL Computing’s ground-breaking research and development activities, innovative technologies, and world-class staff are often featured in various media outlets.

At left, a small plate test, modeled with tantalum/LX-14 and tantalum/LX-17. At right, a cylinder test, modeled with tantalum/LX-17


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LLNL Researchers Quantify Metal Strength Uncertainty in High-Explosives Models

The team used a Bayesian approach to quantify metal strength uncertainty with tantalum and two common explosive materials and integrated it into a coupled metal/high-explosive model.

Computational Science | Data Science | Materials Science | UQ and Statistics

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Source: LLNL News

Lab teams recognized with Secretary of Energy’s Honor Awards

Among the honorees was the Exascale Computing Project leadership team, which successfully delivered the 7-year, $1.8 billion collaboration among six DOE national laboratories.

Awards | Emerging Architectures | Exascale

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Source: LLNL News

LLNL makes Glassdoor’s 2025 Best Places to Work list

This is the sixth recognition the Laboratory has earned in Glassdoor’s award program since its inception in 2009.

Awards | Careers

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Source: YouTube

Video: LLNL dedicates El Capitan

Hundreds of current and former LLNL employees, government officials, and industry leaders gathered on January 9 to mark a monumental achievement: the dedication of El Capitan, the world’s fastest supercomputer.

Collaborations | Emerging Architectures | Events | Exascale | HPC Systems and Software | Multimedia

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Source: Science & Technology Review

Advancing cybersecurity for advanced threats

Livermore’s Cyber Security Program has adopted new cloud-based tools and created others to protect the Laboratory’s enterprise system from cyber threats.

Cloud Services | Cyber Incident Response | Cyber Operations | Cyber Security | Information Technology

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Source: Science & Technology Review

S&TR cover story: Beginning at the end

The DarkStar inverse design technique blends AI, machine learning, and advanced hydrodynamics simulations to optimize science and engineering solutions starting from the final state.

AI/ML | Computational Math | Computational Science | Data Science | Hydrodynamics | Scientific ML

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LLNL dedicates El Capitan, ushering in new era in supercomputing for national security

The event marked a monumental achievement with the acceptance and deployment of the first exascale computing system built for the NNSA, a historic milestone in national security and scientific computing recognizing the collaborative efforts of government, industry and scientific leaders.

Co-Design | Emerging Architectures | Events | Exascale | HPC Architectures | HPC Systems and Software

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Source: LLNL Computing

HPC leadership is rooted in community service

Beyond the El Capitan headlines, SC24 provided an opportunity for Livermore staff to reach the international HPC community.

Careers | Community | Events | Outreach | Students

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Source: insideHPC

Kathryn Mohror: A passion for managing scientific data

This interview with HPC-AI Vanguard Kathryn Mohror covers her thoughts on teamwork, her projects, the field, and more.

AI/ML | Careers | Data Science | HPC Systems and Software | Storage, File Systems, and I/O

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Second ‘STEM Day at the Lab’ in 2024 ignites student engagement

LLNL welcomed more than 240 students and chaperones from the Central Valley to the second ‘STEM Day at the Lab’ in 2024. STEM Day is a biannual daylong interactive event for students (grades 5-8) from underserved communities.

Outreach | Students

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Girls Who Code ‘Altamont Connection’ brings Livermore and Tracy students to the Lab for the second year

High school students from Livermore and Tracy recently visited LLNL bringing participants from the two cities’ Girls Who Code programs together on-site for group activities and tours.

Community | Education | Events | Outreach | Students

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A look back at SC24

SC24, held recently in Atlanta, was a landmark event, setting new records and demonstrating LLNL's unparalleled contributions to HPC innovation and impact.

AI/ML | Awards | Collaborations | Data Science | Emerging Architectures | Events | Exascale | HPC Architectures | HPC Systems and Software | Scientific ML

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Data Days workshop gathers DOE national labs to discuss future of data management

Drawing more than 300 attendees, this year’s “D3” workshop focused on tackling pressing data challenges in nuclear security, energy and collaborative scientific discovery, and featured a host of talks, presentations and panels.

Collaborations | Data Management | Data Science | Data-Driven Decisions | Events | ML Theory

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Source: Science & Technology Review

S&TR cover story: GUIDEing drug development

The Generative Unconstrained Intelligent Drug Engineering (GUIDE) program accelerates development of medical countermeasure candidates to redefine biological defense.

AI/ML | Biology/Biomedicine | Computational Science | Data Science | Natural Language Processing | Scientific ML

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Source: LLNL News

LLNL teams win two HPCwire awards at SC24

Two teams led by LLNL computer scientists won Editor’s Awards from HPCwire, a leading high performance computing industry publication, at the 2024 Supercomputing Conference in Atlanta.

Awards | Emerging Architectures | HPC Architectures | HPC Systems and Software | Open-Source Software | Software Build and Installation

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NNSA researchers break the molecular-dynamics timescale barrier with world’s largest chip

In a groundbreaking development for computational science, a team of Tri-Lab researchers has unveiled a revolutionary approach to molecular dynamics simulations using the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine, the world’s largest computer chip.

Computational Science | HPC Architectures | HPC Systems and Software | Materials Science

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Podcast: Introducing El Capitan

On the newest episode of the Big Ideas Lab podcast, listeners will go behind the scenes of LLNL's latest groundbreaking achievement: El Capitan, the world’s most powerful supercomputer.

Emerging Architectures | Exascale | HPC Architectures | HPC Systems and Software | Hybrid/Heterogeneous | Multimedia

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Source: GlobeNewswire

LLNL and Oxide work together to advance cloud and HPC convergence

Oxide Cloud Computer installation at Livermore Computing's HPC center modernizes on-premises cloud computing capabilities for general purpose workloads.

Collaborations | Emerging Architectures | HPC Systems and Software | Scientific Cloud Computing

El Capitan


Source: LLNL News

El Capitan verified as world's fastest supercomputer

Verified at 1.742 exaflops (1.742 quintillion calculations per second) on the High Performance Linpack—the standard benchmark used by the Top500 organization to evaluate supercomputing performance—El Capitan is the fastest computing system ever benchmarked.

Emerging Architectures | Exascale | HPC Architectures | HPC Systems and Software | Hybrid/Heterogeneous

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Road to El Capitan 11: Industry investment

The NNSA’s exascale milestone is possible only through successful industry partnerships. Hewlett Packard Enterprise staff share their experiences working with LLNL.

Co-Design | Collaborations | Exascale | HPC Architectures | HPC Systems and Software | Hybrid/Heterogeneous

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Source: LLNL News

Podcast: Impact and legacy of DYNA3D

An iconic LLNL computer code that has saved the automobile industry billions of dollars is the focus for the newest episode of the Big Ideas Lab Podcast.

Computational Science | Multimedia | Open-Source Software

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Source: R&D World

Magazine showcases R&D 100 Award winners

The latest issue of R&D World's magazine showcases LLNL's 2024 winning technologies, including UnifyFS and UMap software projects.

Data Movement and Memory | Emerging Architectures | HPC Systems and Software | Near Memory Computing | Open-Source Software | Storage, File Systems, and I/O