Topic: HPC Systems and Software

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.

The high performance computing publication HPCwire has selected LLNL computer scientist Todd Gamblin as one of its “People to Watch” in HPC for 2024. The program recognized 12 HPC professionals who “play leading roles in driving innovation within their particular fields, making significant contributions to society as a whole.”

The system will enable researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration weapons design laboratories to create models and run simulations, previously considered challenging, time-intensive or impossible, for the maintenance and modernization of the United States’ nuclear weapons stockpile.

LLNL is participating in the 35th annual Supercomputing Conference (SC23), which will be held both virtually and in Denver on November 12–17, 2023.

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

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

Hosted at LLNL, the Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations’ annual event featured breakout discussions, more than two dozen speakers, and an evening of bocce ball.

Tammy Dahlgren has worked on a variety of projects at the Lab, including supervisory control systems for the National Ignition Facility, animal disease modeling, mass hierarchical storage systems, RADIUSS, and more.

The Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations has developed innovative mathematical algorithms for the DOE’s next generation of supercomputers.

Livermore Computing is making significant progress toward siting the NNSA’s first exascale supercomputer.

Innovative hardware provides near-node local storage alongside large-capacity storage.

Siting a supercomputer requires close coordination of hardware, software, applications, and Livermore Computing facilities.

Flux, next-generation resource and job management software, steps up to support emerging use cases.

The Tri-Lab Operating System Stack (TOSS) ensures other national labs’ supercomputing needs are met.

Splitting memory resources in HPC between local nodes and a larger shared remote pool can help better support computational applications.

As CTO of Livermore Computing, de Supinski is responsible for formulating, overseeing, and implementing LLNL’s large-scale computing strategy, requiring managing multiple collaborations with the HPC industry and academia.

Updating a compiler can affect how code runs, leading to inconsistencies in outputs and creating problems for scientists. A new tool automatically finds the sources of these inconsistencies.

LLNL participates in the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC23) on May 21–25.

An LLNL Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Gokhale is considered an expert in her field, and continues to enjoy the fast pace of innovation and change in computing.

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

LLNL’s archives recount the contributions of women who developed code during the Lab's early decades.

LLNL’s archives provide a glimpse into the career and contributions of a computing pioneer.

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

Combining specialized software tools with heterogeneous HPC hardware requires an intelligent workflow performance optimization strategy.

Highlights include MFEM community workshops, compiler co-design, HPC standards committees, and AI/ML for national security.