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New call for HPC4EnergyInnovation proposals
The Department of Energy (DOE) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced the spring 2019 call for proposals for the High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) Program, including three of its pillar programs. Managed by LLNL in partnership with other national laboratories, the HPC4EI program aims to provide industry with HPC expertise…
Multi-institutional meeting centers on making the 'impossible' possible in cancer research
Computer scientists, biomedical engineers, cancer biologists and bioinformaticians from eight Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, health-related government agencies and universities converged at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) March 6-7 to discuss ongoing efforts to advance cancer research through computation, identify existing challenges and…
Making connections, career development highlight Women in Data Science regional event
For the second straight year, the HPC Innovation Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) played host to a Women in Data Science (WiDS) regional event on March 4, drawing in dozens of attendees from LLNL, local universities and other Bay Area national laboratories. Livermore was one of more than 150 regional events held at sites across the globe in…
HPC4Manufacturing Program names four awardees for latest round of DOE funding
The High Performance Computing for Manufacturing Program (HPC4Mfg) today announced the recipients of $1.2 million in federal funding for four public/private projects aimed at solving key manufacturing challenges in steelmaking and aluminum production through supercomputing. The summer 2018 HPC4Mfg call for proposals, the sixth overall for the program, had a special focus —…
Computation's Lori Diachin named one of HPCwire's 'People to Watch' for 2019
The online high-performance computing news publication HPCwire has named Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Lori Diachin, Computation’s deputy associate director for science and technology, as one of its "People to Watch" in 2019. The honor recognizes key figures who are likely to propel the HPC industry forward in the coming year. In 2018, Diachin took over the role…
Going deep: Lab employees get an introduction to world of machine learning, neural networks
Deep learning is one of the most popular and widely used machine learning methods due to its success with autonomous vehicles, speech recognition and image classification, to name a few emergent technologies. But what exactly is deep learning, and how can it best be applied to Lab projects? Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) employees discovered the answers during a…
Transforming the future: LLNL team explores electric grid modernization via HPC
A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) team has successfully deployed a widely used power distribution grid simulation software on a high-performance computing (HPC) system, demonstrating substantial speedups and taking a key step toward creating a commercial tool that utilities could use to modernize the grid. Partnering with power management company Eaton to use…
Playing video games may help researchers find personalized medical treatment for sepsis
A deep learning approach originally designed to teach computers how to play video games better than humans could aid in developing personalized medical treatment for sepsis, a disease that causes about 300,000 deaths per year and for which there is no known cure. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in collaboration with researchers at the University of Vermont,…
DOE machines dominate record-breaking SC18
They say everything’s bigger in Texas, and the 30th anniversary of the annual International Conference of High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC18), held Nov. 11-16 in Dallas, did not disappoint. The conference, which broke records for attendees and exhibitors, saw Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) once again make its presence felt on…
Call for HPC for Energy Innovation proposals
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) Initiative today issued its first joint solicitation for the High Performance Computing for Manufacturing Program (HPC4Mfg) and the High Performance Computing for Materials Program (HPC4Mtls). The call for proposals seeks American companies interested in collaborating with DOE’s…
Sierra honored with Top Supercomputing Achievement from HPCwire
The high performance computing publication HPCwire on Tuesday handed Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (LLNL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) their Editors’ Choice and Readers’ Choice Awards for the Top Supercomputing Achievement of 2018, recognizing the launch of the world’s two fastest computing systems. Representatives from LLNL and ORNL accepted the awards for…
Sierra reaches higher altitudes, takes No. 2 spot on list of world's fastest supercomputers
Sierra, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) newest supercomputer, rose to second place on the list of the world’s fastest computing systems, TOP500 List representatives announced Monday at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis conference (SC18) in Dallas. LLNL’s Sierra, an IBM/NVIDIA system developed for…
New algorithms to predict power grid impacts from hackers, earthquakes and … squirrels?
What would it take for an entire American city to lose power? What circumstances and failures in the electrical grid’s infrastructure would lead to a dramatic, long-term blackout? And what weak points could utility companies invest in to help prevent a catastrophic shutdown? A three-year project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is attempting to answer those…
LLNL-Norway collaboration seeks improved predictive models for cancer outcomes
A group of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently visited the Cancer Registry of Norway (CRN) in Oslo to discuss the progress of ongoing collaborations between the two institutions aimed at applying big data analytics to predicting cancer risk and mortality. The U.S.-Norwegian partnership began with a project headed by LLNL researcher Ghaleb…
Celebrating diversity and inclusion in tech
The annual Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) is the premier international gathering of women in computing. This September, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) sent 43 employees to GHC in Houston, Texas — the largest attendance from any national laboratory. Named after American computer scientist Grace Hopper (1906–1992), the conference packs three days of technical…
Lawrence Livermore unveils NNSA's Sierra, world's third fastest supercomputer
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and its industry partners today officially unveiled Sierra, one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, at a dedication ceremony to celebrate the system’s completion. Sierra will serve the NNSA’s three nuclear security laboratories, LLNL, Sandia National…
DOE to issue joint solicitation for HPC programs
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) Initiative has announced it will issue its first joint solicitation in November for two of its pillar initiatives, the High Performance Computing for Manufacturing Program (HPC4Mfg) and the High Performance Computing for Materials Program (HPC4Mtls). The call for proposals will…
LLNL/LBNL team named as Gordon Bell Award finalists for work on modeling neutron lifespans
A team of scientists and physicists headed by the Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories has been named as one of six finalists for the prestigious 2018 Gordon Bell Award, one of the world’s top honors in supercomputing. Using the Department of Energy’s newest supercomputers, LLNL’s Sierra and Oak Ridge’s Summit, a team led by computational…
Spack, a Lab-developed 'app store for supercomputers,' becoming standard-bearer
Spack, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-developed open source package manager optimized for high performance computing (HPC), is making waves throughout the HPC community, including internationally, as evidenced by a recent tour of European HPC facilities by the tool’s developers. Despite its niche status, Spack (short for Supercomputer PACKage manager), is one of…
DOE funds LLNL project aimed at improving energy efficiency in buildings
The Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office (BTO) within the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) recently awarded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers with $3 million for a three-year project aimed at using building energy more efficiently to shave peak electric energy usage. The project, led by LLNL power systems…
