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LLNL pairs world’s largest computer chip from Cerebras with Lassen

Wednesday, August 19, 2020
LLNL and Cerebras Systems have installed the company’s AI computer into Lassen, making LLNL the first institution to integrate the cutting-edge AI platform with a supercomputer.
Source: LLNL News
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Podcast: ECP leaders discuss highlights, challenges, and exascale impacts

Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Members of the leadership team of the DOE’s Exascale Computing Project cover the state of the project on the "Let's Talk Exascale" podcast. Episode 72 runs 1:26:54 and includes a transcript.
Source: Exascale Computing Project
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Flux Framework featured on Next Platform TV

Tuesday, August 18, 2020
LLNL computer scientist Stephen Herbein discusses the open-source Flux Framework HPC software on this video episode of Next Platform TV. His segment begins at 27:34.
Source: The Next Platform
Simulated strength of shaking from a magnitude 7.0 Hayward Fault earthquake showing peak ground velocity (colorbar) and seismograms (blue) at selected locations (triangles)

Lab team completes highest-ever resolution quake simulations using Sierra supercomputer

Tuesday, August 11, 2020
An LLNL team has published new simulations of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on the Hayward Fault—the highest-ever resolution ground motion simulations from such an event on this scale.
Source: LLNL News
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Using models, 3D printing to study common heart defect

Monday, August 10, 2020
LLNL researchers and collaborators have combined machine learning, 3D printing, and HPC simulations to accurately model blood flow in the aorta.
Source: LLNL News
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Software installation simplified

Monday, August 3, 2020
In this issue featuring LLNL's R&D 100 Award winners from 2019, software deployment is faster and easier with the Spack package management tool.
Source: Science & Technology Review
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Video: advancing healthcare with data science

Monday, August 3, 2020
This video provides an overview of LLNL projects in which data scientists work with domain scientists to address major challenges in healthcare.
Source: YouTube.com
SCR team in front of Sierra with R&D 100 logo

Resiliency in computer applications

Monday, August 3, 2020
In this issue featuring LLNL's R&D 100 Award winners from 2019, the versatile Scalable Checkpoint/Restart framework offers more reliable simulation performance.
Source: Science & Technology Review
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AI acceleration: a Next Platform TV interview with Ian Karlin and Brian Van Essen

Friday, July 31, 2020
Ian Karlin on AI hardware integration into HPC systems, workflows, followed by a talk about software integration of AI accelerators in HPC with Brian Van Essen
Source: Next Platform TV
diagram of a new “Mix-n-Match” method for calibrating uncertainty of deep learning models

LLNL papers accepted into prestigious conference

Thursday, July 9, 2020
Two papers featuring LLNL scientists were accepted in the 2020 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), one of the world’s premier conferences of its kind.
Source: LLNL News

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