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Video: Sierra – Science Unleashed

Thursday, March 7, 2019
In this video from the 2019 Stanford HPC Conference, LLNL's Rob Neely presents "Sierra – Science Unleashed." Sierra is NNSA’s first large-scale production heterogeneous system.
Source: insideHPC
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HPC4Mfg Program Names Awardees for Latest Round of DOE Funding

Thursday, March 7, 2019
The HPC for Manufacturing Program (HPC4Mfg) announced the recipients of $1.2 million in federal funding for projects aimed at solving key manufacturing challenges through supercomputing.
Source: LLNL News Article
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People to Watch 2019: Lori Diachin, ECP Deputy Director

Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Profile of LLNL's Lori Diachin, who has over 25 years experience in applied mathematics research including mesh quality improvement, mesh component software, numerical methods, and parallel computing.
Source: HPCwire
Eric Mckinzie (holding award on behalf of Marcey Kelley), Michael Vieira and Chris Murray

Defense Recognizes Lab as Patriotic Employer

Wednesday, February 20, 2019
An effort to support a deployed Computation employee and change a longstanding policy on differential pay for active duty soldiers has garnered awards from the Secretary of Defense.
Source: LLNL News Article
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ESGF Conference Caps a Productive Year

Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Held in Washington, DC, the Earth System Grid Federation’s 8th annual face-to-face conference was a lively, fruitful affair.
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Going Deep: Lab Employees Introduced to Machine Learning, Neural Networks

Monday, February 4, 2019
LLNL employees attended a five-part “Deep Learning 101” course, which introduced the basics of neural networks and machine learning to anyone with a basic knowledge of programming in Python.
Source: LLNL News Article
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Livermore Leaps into Quantum Computing

Thursday, January 31, 2019
Not only is LLNL home to some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, we've also built test beds for quantum computing.
Source: Science & Technology Review
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LLNL and Three Employees Win 'Best in Class' National Tech Transfer Award

Tuesday, January 29, 2019
The “best in class” award was for the Accelerating Therapeutics for Opportunities in Medicine (ATOM) consortium, which aims to use HPC to accelerate drug development.
Source: LLNL News Article
Tom Epperly with the Sierra supercomputer

Tom Epperly: A Software Architect Starts Early

Monday, January 28, 2019
In this career profile, CASC architect Tom Epperly describes NIF's Virtual Beam Line code and his penchant for solving software programming problems.
Source: NIF & Photon Science
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LLNL Team Explores Electric Grid Modernization via HPC

Thursday, January 24, 2019
LLNL has successfully deployed power distribution grid simulation software on an HPC system, taking a key step toward creating a commercial tool that utilities could use to modernize the grid.
Source: LLNL News Article

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