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Innovative HPC Architectures

Increased resource utilization is one goal of new architectures. At Livermore Computing, these include AI accelerators such as Samba Nova and Cerebras systems and El Capitan's Rabbits.

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Variorum

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

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SCR

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

PEOPLE
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Todd Gamblin

An LLNL Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Todd Gamblin leads the Spack project, an open-source package manager with a rapidly growing global community that has changed the way people use…

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Trevor Smith

Since 2018, software developer Trevor Smith has been putting his education and computing skills to good use supporting the Lab's HPC environment. He helps develop, deploy, and manage systems…

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Jarom Nelson

As group leader and application developer in the Global Security Computing Applications Division, Jarom Nelson develops intrusion detection and access control software.

NEWS
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El Capitan retains title as world’s fastest supercomputer on latest Top500 list

El Capitan once again claimed the top spot on the Top500 List of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, announced today at the 2025 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC25) conference in St. Louis.

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SC25 event calendar

LLNL is participating in the 37th annual Supercomputing Conference (SC25) in St. Louis on November 16–21, 2025.

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Workshop features finite element advances and applications

Five years strong, the MFEM workshop fosters connection and collaboration among the computational math community.