Topic: Exascale

Over several years, teams have prepared the infrastructure for El Capitan, designing and building the computing facility’s upgrades for power and cooling, installing storage and compute components and connecting everything together. Once all the pieces are in place, the life of El Cap as world-class supercomputer begins.

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

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.

With this year’s results, the Lab has now collected a total of 179 R&D 100 awards since 1978. The awards will be showcased at the 61st R&D 100 black-tie awards gala on Nov. 16 in San Diego.

A team from LLNL and seven other DOE labs is a finalist for the new ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling for running an unprecedented high-resolution global atmosphere model on the world’s first exascale supercomputer. 

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

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.

A Laboratory-developed software package management tool, enhanced by contributions from more than 1,000 users, supports the high performance computing community.

Livermore builds an open-source community around its award-winning HPC package manager.

As part of the Exascale Computing Project’s ExaSGD project, a team including LLNL researchers ran HiOp, an open source optimization solver, on 9,000 nodes of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier exascale supercomputer.

Anna Maria Bailey, LLNL’s Chief Engineer for HPC and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, has enjoyed her “many careers” at the Lab and the ability to jump around to follow her interests.

From wind tunnels and cardiovascular electrodes to the futuristic world of exascale computing, Brian Gunney has been finding solutions for unsolvable problems.

LLNL CTO Bronis de Supinski talks about how the Lab deploys novel architecture AI machines and provides an update on El Capitan.

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.

Lori Diachin will take over as director of the DOE’s Exascale Computing Project on June 1, guiding the successful, multi-institutional high performance computing effort through its final stages.

Livermore CTO Bronis de Supinski joins the Let's Talk Exascale podcast to discuss the details of LLNL's upcoming exascale supercomputer.

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.

Supercomputers broke the exascale barrier, marking a new era in processing power, but the energy consumption of such machines cannot run rampant.

UCLA's Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics hosted LLNL's Erik Draeger for a talk about the challenges and possibilities of exascale computing.

This year, the DOE honored 44 teams including LLNL's Exascale Computing Facility Modernization Project team for significant power and cooling upgrades to support upcoming exascale supercomputers.

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.