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Lab Antibody, Anti-Viral Research Aids COVID-19 Response

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

LLNL scientists are contributing to the global fight against COVID-19 by combining AI/ML, bioinformatics, and supercomputing to help discover candidates for new antibodies and pharmaceutical drugs.

Source: LLNL News

New Partnership to Unleash U.S. Supercomputing Resources in the Fight against COVID-19

Monday, March 23, 2020

The White House announced the COVID-19 HPC Consortium to provide access to the world’s most powerful HPC resources that can advance the pace of scientific discovery in the fight to stop the virus.

Source: LLNL News

HPC4Energy Innovation Program Issues Special Solicitation for American Manufacturers

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

This solicitation invites members of Manufacturing USA, a network of 14 U.S. manufacturing institutes, to propose projects that could benefit from HPC modeling, simulation, and data analysis.

Source: LLNL News

LLNL Highlights Magma’s Role in NNSA’s Computing Arsenal

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

This week, LLNL highlighted one of the latest additions to its computing arsenal: Magma. Magma is a Penguin Computing “Relion” system comprised of 752 nodes with Intel Xeon Platinum 9242 processors.

Source: HPCwire

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LLNL and HPE to Partner with AMD on El Capitan, Projected as World’s Fastest Supercomputer

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

With its advanced CPUs/GPUs developed by AMD, El Capitan’s peak performance is expected to exceed 2 exaFLOPS, which would make it the fastest supercomputer in the world when it is deployed in 2023.

Source: LLNL News

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Lab Team Sizzles at DOE Grid Optimization Competition

Thursday, February 27, 2020

LLNL bested more than two dozen teams to place first overall in Challenge 1 of the DOE Grid Optimization Competition, aimed at developing a more reliable, resilient, and secure U.S. electrical grid.

Source: LLNL News

‘Yes, You Can’: UC Merced Students Learning, Growing at Livermore Lab

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

The university and LLNL lay the groundwork for a direct pipeline between the two, opening a door to research collaborations as well as job and internship opportunities for students and alumni.

Source: UC Merced

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Podcast: Helping Applications Use Future Architectures with First-Rate Discretization Libraries

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Led by LLNL's Tzanio Kolev, the Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED) is a hub for high-order mathematical methods to increase application efficiency and performance.

Source: Exascale Computing Project