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.

Vidya

Creating Machine Learning Tools to Optimize Design Simulations

This project advances research in physics-informed ML, invests in validated and explainable ML, creates an advanced data environment, builds ML expertise across the complex, and more.

VBL++

Virtual Beamline Code

Upgraded with the C++ programming language, VBL provides high-fidelity models and high-resolution calculations of laser performance predictions.

MAPP

Multiphysics Simulations for the Exascale Era

The MAPP incorporates multiple software packages into one integrated code so that multiphysics simulation codes can perform at scale on present and future supercomputers.

Deterrence in Cyberspace

Defending Our Critical Infrastructure

LLNL’s cyber programs work across a broad sponsor space to develop technologies addressing sophisticated cyber threats directed at national security and civilian critical infrastructure.

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

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

COVID-19 Operations

LivIT and NIF Support

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

JCATS

Joint Conflict and Tactical Simulation

One of the most widely used tactical simulations in the world, JCATS is installed in hundreds of U.S. military and civilian organizations, in NATO, and in more than 30 countries.

RADIUSS

Rapid Application Development via an Institutional Universal Software Stack

The RADIUSS project aims to lower cost and improve agility by encouraging adoption of our core open-source software products for use in institutional applications.

Automated Testing System

Ensuring Reliability of HPC Codes

LLNL’s Python 3–based ATS tool provides scientific code teams with automated regression testing across HPC architectures.

HPSS

High Performance Storage System

Livermore’s archive leverages a hierarchical storage management application that runs on a cluster architecture that is user-friendly, extremely scalable, and lightning fast.

Backlighter Tech

Automated Software to Optimize NIF Shot Efficiency

The latest generation of a laser beam–delay technique owes its success to collaboration, dedication, and innovation.

ESGF

Earth System Grid Federation

The Earth System Grid Federation is a web-based tool set that powers most global Earth system research.

Flux

Building a Framework for Resource Management

This 2021 R&D 100 award-winning software solves data center bottlenecks by enabling resource types, schedulers, and framework services to be deployed as data centers evolve.

Floating Point Compression

Lossless and Lossy Solutions

High-precision numerical data from computer simulations, observations, and experiments is often represented in floating point and can easily reach terabytes to petabytes of storage.

Exascale Archiving

Massive-Scale Tape Libraries

LLNL is home to the world’s largest Spectra TFinityTM system, which offers the speed, agility, and capacity required to take LLNL into the exascale era.

VCK

Vlasov Continuum Kinetics

A high-fidelity, specialized code solves partial differential equations for plasma simulations.

OpenZFS

Improving File System Efficiency

LC’s adaptation of OpenZFS software provides high performance parallel file systems with better performance and scalability.

libROM

POD-Based Reduced Order Modeling

libROM is a library designed to facilitate Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) based Reduced Order Modeling (ROM).

GOLLNLP

Improving Efficiency and Robustness of the U.S. Electrical Power Grid using HPC

Responding to a DOE grid optimization challenge, an LLNL-led team developed the mathematical, computational, and software components needed to solve problems of the real-world power grid.

Quandary

Scalable Quantum Optimal Control

Quandary is an open-source C++ package for optimal control of quantum systems on classical high performance computing platforms.

Merlin

Machine Learning for HPC Workflows

Merlin is an open-source workflow orchestration and coordination tool that makes it easy to build, run, and process large-scale workflows.

ETHOS

Enabling Technologies for High-Order Simulations

The Enabling Technologies for High-Order Simulations (ETHOS) project performs research of fundamental mathematical technologies for next-generation high-order simulations algorithms.