Interning with the DSSI program provided extensive opportunities to work on answering real-world research questions collaboratively with peers and mentors. The summer was full of courses, seminars, game nights, and intern events which gave me the opportunity to learn about various research areas and techniques, LLNL employees, and other interns across the Lab!
—Rose Wilfong, DSSI class of 2022
At the beginning of your internship, you'll be paired with one of our mentors—LLNL staff scientists and engineers who are recognized experts in their fields. Your mentor will develop a purposed research project for you that will be significant, yet manageable within the length of the DSSI program. Some of these projects will be designed to lead to follow-on work for students who would like to return in subsequent years. Check out some of the 2020 students' projects.
High-performance computing has been a central strength of the Lab, as it's vital to mission success and a source for scientific discovery and technological innovation. LLNL is home to some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, like Sierra, which has a CPU-GPU architecture and a peak performance of 125 petaFLOPs per second. Many of our machines are well suited to solving big data problems, such as those found in the areas of bioinformatics, graph networks, machine learning, and natural language processing. Learn more about how HPC systems are used in data science projects at the Lab.
In addition to individual project work with your mentor, you'll participate in DSSI seminars and short courses.
You'll participate in the DSSI Challenge Problems, where teams of students will work together to develop and present a system of solving hard problems relevant to the Lab's mission. You'll also have opportunities to tour (virtually) some of LLNL's unique facilities, such as the National Ignition Facility, the Livermore Computing Complex, and the Additive Manufacturing Laboratory.
At the end of your internship, you'll participate in the Lab's Summer Slam where you present your work to DSSI leadership, mentors, and other students.
