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An additive manufactured cutting tool for precision machining

LLNL's zfp and Variorum software projects are winners. LLNL is a co-developing organization on the winning CANDLE project.

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People across the Lab are pulling in the same direction for what will be one of the best computing systems in the world. — Bronis de Supinski | LC chief technology officer

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A Rabbit Node

Integrating Rabbits into the early access systems, and ultimately into El Capitan, is a huge co-design effort. — Brian Behlendorf | I/O lead

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El Capitan being assembled

The functionality that El Capitan is going to unlock for our users and for the programs is the most exciting aspect. — Adam Bertsch | Integration Project lead

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An LLNL group responsible for work on El Capitan

We are providing more capable resource management through hierarchical, multi-level management and scheduling schemes. — Becky Springmeyer | LC division leader

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A group of people standing in front of El Capitan

It's becoming more and more obvious to everyone that we really can do this. — Jim Foraker | Systems Software and Security Group leader

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

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A map of America indicating locations from high risk to low risk

LLNL researchers ran HiOp, an open-source optimization solver, on 9,000 nodes of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier exascale supercomputer in the largest simulation of its kind to date.

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A set of images, with the original on the left, and the AI-enhanced version on the right

 

We have these digital tools to help us decide what to make, but we still have to figure out how to make it — Anna Hiszpanski | Materials scientist

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A world map overlayed with thermal imaging

 

Adding new color maps for color-vision deficient users provided us the opportunity to address our color map usability. — Eric Brugger | Project leader

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Learn how to use LLNL software in the cloud. Throughout August, join our tutorials on how to install and use several projects on AWS EC2 instances. No previous experience necessary.

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Three people working together during Developer Day

When you think about software, it’s almost as important as oxygen to the functioning of the Lab. — John Grosh | Deputy associate director for mission development

 

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The award-winning research team standing in front of the Frontier supercomputer

A research team from Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore national labs won the first IPDPS Best Open-Source Contribution Award for the paper “UnifyFS: A User-level Shared File System for Unified Access to Distributed Local Storage.”

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The thumbnail for the report on Summer 2022 Workshops

The report lays out a comprehensive vision for the DOE Office of Science and NNSA to expand their work in scientific use of AI by building on existing strengths in world-leading high performance computing systems and data infrastructure.

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

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An award being presented at ISC23

Suppose we provision each node with a much smaller amount of memory, and at times when they need more, they can use the memory of a memory server. — Maya Gokhale | Co-author

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An image of Lori Diachin, with text announcing her as the DOE Exascale Computing Project Director

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.

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

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A simulated image with the caption, "zfp: Compressed Floating-Point and Integer Arrays"

Unique among data compressors, zfp is designed to be a compact number format for storing data arrays in-memory in compressed form while still supporting high-speed random access.

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A photo of the Variorum Team, with the mission statement: "Enabling energy efficiency in HPC"

Variorum provides robust, portable interfaces that allow us to measure and optimize computation at the physical level: temperature, cycles, energy, and power. With that foundation, we can get the best possible use of our world-class computing resources.

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The Compiler-induced Inconsistency Expression Locator tool is recognized on stage at ISC23

The Compiler-induced Inconsistency Expression Locator tool is recognized at ISC23

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The Lab was already using Elastic components to gather data from its HPC clusters, then investigated whether Elasticsearch and Kibana could be applied to all scanning and logging activities across the board.

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Brian Van Essen and Bronis R. de Supinski standing with the SambaNova AI hardware

The addition of the spatial data flow accelerator into LLNL’s Livermore Computing Center is part of an effort to upgrade the Lab’s cognitive simulation (CogSim) program.

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Computer scientist Vanessa Sochat talks to BSSw about a recent effort to survey software developer needs at LLNL.

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Join LLNL at the ISC High Performance Conference on May 21–25