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VBL++

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

Radiation-driven Kelvin–Helmholtz instability experiment

MAPP

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

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Axom

Supported by the Advanced Simulation and Computing program, Axom focuses on developing software infrastructure components that can be shared by HPC apps running on different platforms.

NEWS
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LLNL pushes frontier of fusion target design with AI

Part of an AI framework called the Multi-Agent Design Assistant (MADA), LLNL scientists and collaborators are merging LLMs with simulation tools to interpret natural language prompts and using the platform to generate full physics simulation decks for LLNL’s MARBL multiphysics code.

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Shifting foundations: an AI paradigm emerges in computational science

A new CASC paper proposes unity and clarity around foundation models in computational science, offering an implementation framework inspired by finite element methods.

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Faster topology optimization: an emerging industrial design technique gets a speed boost

Researchers at Brown University, LLNL, and Simula Research Laboratory have developed a new algorithm to help optimizers arrive at solutions in fewer iterations, saving valuable computing time.