Our research projects vary in size, scope, and duration, but they share a focus on developing tools and methods that help LLNL deliver on its missions to the nation and, more broadly, advance the state of the art in scientific HPC. Projects are organized here in three ways: Active projects are those currently funded and regularly updated. Legacy projects are no longer actively developed. The A-Z option sorts all projects alphabetically, both active and legacy.

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Legacy

Ascending to Exascale

LLNL Prepares for El Capitan

El Capitan will have a peak performance of more than 2 exaflops—roughly 16 times faster on average than the Sierra system—and is projected to be several times more energy efficient than Sierra.

Legacy

AutomaDeD

Diagnosing Performance and Correctness Faults

This tool that automatically diagnoses performance and correctness faults in MPI applications. It identifies abnormal MPI tasks and code regions and finds the least-progressed task.

Legacy

BUILD

Solving the Software Complexity Puzzle

BUILD tackles the complexities of HPC software integration with dependency compatibility models, binary analysis tools, efficient logic solvers, and configuration optimization techniques.

Legacy

COVID-19 Operations

LivIT and NIF Support

LivIT tackles challenges of workforce safety, telecommuting, cyber security protocols, National Ignition Facility software updates, and more.

Legacy

COVID-19 R&D

Computing Responds to Pandemic

From molecular screening, a software platform, and an online data to the computing systems that power these projects.

Legacy

Cram

Running Millions of Concurrent MPI Jobs

Cram lets you easily run many small MPI jobs within a single, large MPI job by splitting MPI_COMM_WORLD up into many small communicators to run each job in the cram file independently.

Legacy

Data-Intensive Computing Solutions

Addressing Growing Demands

New platforms are improving big data computing on Livermore’s high performance computers.

Legacy

Derived Field Generation

Execution Strategies for Multiple Hardware Architectures

Livermore computer scientists have helped create a flexible framework that aids programmers in creating source code that can be used effectively on multiple hardware architectures.

Legacy

ExReDi

Extreme Resilient Discretization

The Extreme Resilient Discretization project (ExReDi) was established to address these challenges for algorithms common for fluid and plasma simulations.

Legacy

FGFS

Fast Global File Status

Fast Global File Status (FGFS) is an open-source package that provides scalable mechanisms and programming interfaces to retrieve global information of a file.

Legacy

First-Principles Molecular Dynamics

O(N) Complexity Algorithm

This scalable first-principles MD algorithm with O(N) complexity and controllable accuracy is capable of simulating systems that were previously impossible with such accuracy.

Legacy

GEFIE-QUAD

Laser Grating Simulation

This first-principles simulation method models the interaction of laser light with diffraction gratings, giving scientists a powerful tool to predict the performance of a laser compressor.

Legacy

GREMLINs

Emulating Exascale Conditions on Today's Platforms

These techniques emulate the behavior of anticipated future architectures on current machines to improve performance modeling and evaluation.

Legacy

HARVEY

Predictive Vascular Modeling of Blood Flow in Patient-Specific Geometries

Livermore researchers are enhancing HARVEY, an open-source parallel fluid dynamics application designed to model blood flow in patient-specific geometries.

Legacy

HPC Code Performance

Challenges and Solutions

LLNL researchers are finding some factors are more important in determining HPC application performance than traditionally thought.

Legacy

HZIP

Lossless Compression of Meshes

hzip 1.0.1 is a C++ library for lossless compression of structured and unstructured meshes composed of cells with hypercube topology.

Legacy

Interconnection Networks

Topology-Aware Task Mapping

LLNL's interconnection networks projects improve the communication and overall performance of parallel applications using interconnect topology-aware task mapping.

Legacy

libMSR

Power Measurement

libMSR provides a convenient interface to access Model Specific Registers and to allow tools to utilize their full functionality.

Legacy

LivCloud

Migrating Data and Services to the AWS Cloud

The Livermore Information Technology (LivIT) program is the first organization at LLNL to commit to migrating all services and applications to the Amazon Web Services cloud.

Legacy

LOCAL

Locality-Optimizing Caching Algorithms and Layouts

This project's techniques reduce bandwidth requirements for large unstructured data by making use of data compression and optimizing the layout of the data for better locality and cache reuse.

Legacy

Machine Learning

Strengthening Performance Predictions

LLNL computer scientists use machine learning to model and characterize the performance and ultimately accelerate the development of adaptive applications.

Legacy

MPI_T

Tools for MPI 3.0

MPI_T is an interface for tools introduced in the 3.0 version of MPI. The interface provides mechanisms for tools to access and set performance and control variables that are exposed by an MPI…

Legacy

NSDE

Nonlinear Solvers and Differential Equations

The NSDE project is focused on research and development of nonlinear solvers and sensitivity analysis techniques for nonlinear, time-dependent, and steady-state partial differential equations.

Legacy

ODEPACK

Fortran ODE Solvers

These Fortran solvers tackle the initial value problem for ODE systems. The collection includes solvers for systems given in both explicit and linearly implicit forms.