Topic: HPC Systems and Software

The event attracted more than 60 attendees from diverse sectors and featured discussions aimed at fostering new collaborations with various DOE offices and national labs.

The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) has awarded Kathryn Mohror with its prestigious Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing (EWLTC) Award.

An optics element team and two open-source software teams (UMap and UnifyFS) are LLNL's winners of this year's awards.

The collaboration has enabled expanding systems of the same architecture as LLNL’s upcoming exascale supercomputer, El Capitan, featuring AMD’s cutting-edge MI300A processors.

To keep employees abreast of the latest tools, two data science–focused projects are under way as part of Lawrence Livermore’s Institutional Scientific Capability Portfolio.

This issue highlights some of CASC’s contributions to the DOE's Exascale Computing Project.

In a milestone for supercomputing-aided drug design, LLNL and BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics today announced clinical trials have begun for a first-in-class medication that targets specific genetic mutations implicated in many types of cancer.

LLNL’s HPC capabilities play a significant role in international science research and innovation, and Lab researchers have won 10 R&D 100 Awards in the Software–Services category in the past decade.

With SCR, jobs run more efficiently, recover more work upon failure, and reduce load on critical shared resources.

Two LLNL teams have come up with ingenious solutions to a few of the more vexing difficulties. For their efforts, they’ve won awards coveted by scientists in the technology fields.

Bugs, broken codes, or system failures require added time for troubleshooting and increase the risk of data loss. LLNL has addressed failure recovery by developing the Scalable Checkpoint/Restart (SCR) framework.

Collecting variants in low-level hardware features across multiple GPU and CPU architectures.

Learn how to use a modern, open-source HPC software stack! Throughout August, join our tutorials on how to install and use several projects on AWS EC2 instances. No previous experience is necessary, and everyone is welcome.

This open-source file system framework accelerates hierarchical HPC I/O operations with effective, efficient use of node-local storage.

Discover how the software architecture and storage systems that will drive El Capitan’s performance will help LLNL and the NNSA Tri-Labs push the boundaries of computational science.

Unveiled at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany, the June 2024 Top500 lists three systems with identical components as registering 19.65 petaflops on the High Performance Linpack benchmark, ranking them among the world’s 50 fastest.

In a groundbreaking development for addressing future viral pandemics, a multi-institutional team involving LLNL researchers has successfully combined an AI-backed platform with supercomputing to redesign and restore the effectiveness of antibodies whose ability to fight viruses has been compromi

LLNL participates in the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC24) on May 12–16.

LLNL researchers have achieved a milestone in accelerating and adding features to complex multiphysics simulations run on GPUs, a development that could advance HPC and engineering.

Backed by Spack’s robust functionality, the Packaging Working Group manages the relationships between user software and system software.

The advent of accelerated processing units presents new challenges and opportunities for teams responsible for network interconnects and math libraries.

The Tools Working Group delivers debugging, correctness, and performance analysis solutions at an unprecedented scale.

Compilers translate human-programmable source code into machine-readable code. Building a compiler is especially challenging in the exascale era.

The El Capitan Center of Excellence provides a conduit between national labs and commercial vendors, ensuring that the exascale system will meet everyone’s needs.

As a high school baseball coach, LLNL software developer Chris Moussa understands the value of having teammates you can rely on, which is why he’s especially grateful for his “fantastic” team at work.