LLNL Computing’s ground-breaking research and development activities, innovative technologies, and world-class staff are often featured in various media outlets.
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Vanguards of HPC-AI: Spack builder Todd Gamblin of LLNL
Todd Gamblin has a well-deserved reputation in the HPC software community as a passionate engineer who enjoys rolling up his sleeves and diving into technical problems. It’s not a stretch to see how he got hooked on HPC.
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Quantum computers successfully model particle scattering
When quantum mechanical particles scatter, it shifts the position of their wave. The new algorithm accurately measures these shifts, opening the way to quantum simulations of scattering processes.
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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.
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ML-driven binary analysis pipeline enhances software quality assurance
Presented last fall at a conference, a new approach to software binary analysis incorporates large-scale training data and hierarchical embeddings.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Workshop highlights new research using finite element methods
Held for the first time in a hybrid format, the multi-day MFEM workshop drew participants from around the globe.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.