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.

Active | A-Z | Legacy

Topological Analysis

Charting Data’s Peaks and Valleys

LLNL and University of Utah researchers have developed an advanced, intuitive method for analyzing and visualizing complex data sets.

TESSA

Tracking Space Debris

Testbed Environment for Space Situational Awareness software helps to track satellites and space debris and prevent collisions.

Ardra

Scaling Up Transport Sweep Algorithms

Researchers are testing and enhancing a neutral particle transport code and its algorithm to ensure that they successfully scale to larger and more complex computing systems.

Data-Intensive Computing Solutions

Addressing Growing Demands

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

HPC Code Performance

Challenges and Solutions

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

CT Image Enhancement

Novel Processing Pipeline for Threat Detection

Researchers are developing enhanced computed tomography image processing methods for explosives identification and other national security applications.

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.

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.

InfiniBand

Improving Communications for Large-Scale Computing

Livermore Computing staff is enhancing the high-speed InfiniBand data network used in many of its high performance computing and file systems.

ROSE Compiler

Robust Analysis, Debugging, and Optimization Capabilities

ROSE, an open-source project maintained by Livermore researchers, provides easy access to complex, automated compiler technology and assistance.

Master Block List

Protecting Against Cyber Threats

Master Block List is a service and data aggregation tool that aids Department of Energy facilities in creating filters and blocks to prevent cyber attacks.

Legacy

Qbox

Computing Electronic Structures at the Quantum Level

LLNL’s version of Qbox, a first-principles molecular dynamics code, will let researchers accurately calculate bigger systems on supercomputers.

STAT

Discovering Supercomputers' Code Errors

LLNL’s Stack Trace Analysis Tool helps users quickly identify errors in code running on today’s largest machines.

TOSS

Speeding Up Commodity Cluster Computing

Researchers are developing a standardized and optimized operating system and software for deployment across Linux clusters to enable HPC at a reduced cost.

High-Order Finite Volume Methods

Tackling Phase Space Problems in Complex Geometries

High-resolution finite volume methods are being developed for solving problems in complex phase space geometries, motivated by kinetic models of fusion plasmas.

GLVis

Finite Element Visualization

GLVis is a lightweight tool for accurate and flexible finite element visualization that provides interactive visualizations of general FE meshes and solutions.

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

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

Sapphire

Scientific Data Mining

Drawing from data mining, image and video processing, statistics, and pattern recognition, these computational tools improve the way scientists extract useful information from data.

Legacy

Phase-Field Modeling

Real-Space Representation in Scalable Simulation Code

Based on a discretization and time-stepping algorithm, these equations include a local order parameter, a quaternion representation of local orientation, and species composition.

PDES

Modeling Complex, Asynchronous Systems

PDES focuses on models that can accurately and effectively simulate California’s large-scale electric grid.

Math for Data Mining

Improved Matrix Factorization Algorithms

Newly developed mathematical techniques reveal important tools for data mining analysis.

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.

Cluster Management Tools

Flexible Support for Our Linux Ecosystem

Large Linux data centers require flexible system management. At Livermore Computing, we are committed to supporting our Linux ecosystem at the high end of commodity computing.