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Ascending to Exascale
El Capitan will have a peak performance of more than 2 exaflops—roughly 16 times faster on average than the Sierra system—and is projected to be several times more energy efficient than Sierra.
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RAJA Portability Suite
A Livermore-developed programming approach helps software to run on different platforms without major disruption to the source code.
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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 diverse platforms.
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Greg Lee
Greg Lee helps develop tools designed to boost performance and productivity of Livermore scientists.
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Olga Pearce
Olga Pearce studies how to detect and correct load imbalance in high performance computing applications.
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Chris Morrone
Working extensively with open-source software such as Lustre and engaging with the broader open-source community is what computer scientist Chris Morrone enjoys most about his job, and it is one…
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Road to El Capitan 9: Messaging and math
The advent of accelerated processing units presents new challenges and opportunities for teams responsible for network interconnects and math libraries.
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Road to El Capitan 8: Prepping for performance
The Tools Working Group delivers debugging, correctness, and performance analysis solutions at an unprecedented scale.
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Todd Gamblin named to HPCwire’s 'People to Watch' list for 2024
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.”