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VBL++

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

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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.

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ASC Proxy Apps

Proxy apps serve as specific targets for testing and simulation without the time, effort, and expertise that porting or changing most production codes would require.

PEOPLE
Gordon Lau performs fun with science

Gordon Lau

When computer scientist Gordon Lau arrived at Lawrence Livermore more than 20 years ago, he was a contractor assigned to a laser isotope separation project.

Joshua Senecal Finds Balance at NIF

Joshua Senecal

The NIF Computing team plays a key role in this smoothly running facility, and computer scientist Joshua Senecal supports multiple operational areas.

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Julia Ramirez

Julia Ramirez helps automate and streamline LLNL processes for preparing reports and responding to audits.

NEWS
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Robust verification of control system enables NIF software updates

NIF Computing deploys regular updates to its computer control systems to ensure NIF continues to achieve ignition.

3D simulation of a shock interaction that looks like a colorful cylinder peeling back at one end

ECP co-design center wraps up seven years of collaboration

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

Summer interns work on their hackathon projects. A water bottle with a hackathon sticker on it is in the photo’s foreground.

Summer hackathon addresses Lab's many acronyms, plus other projects (SHALMA-POP)

This season’s hackathon featured Lab improvement projects, work tasks, and personal enrichment.