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Hackathon generates ideas, strengthens ties, promotes fun
A record 58 employees and students took part in Computation's summer hackathon, held from July 31 to Aug. 1 in theHigh-Performance Computing Innovation Center. The event was hosted byLivermore Computing. During hackathons, participants -- working individually or in teams -- strive to complete a Computation-related project of their choice in 24 hours or less. The measure of…
A dynamic introduction to cybersecurity
Lawrence Livermore's Celeste Matarazzo was attending a cybersecurity conference when she was struck with a realization: The field of cybersecurity had a diversity problem."It's about more than racial or gender diversity -- it's about diversity of thought. Both cybercrime and cybersecurity are only limited by imagination, and we as a nation can't be secure without a diverse…
Labs, industry join forces to train cyber security specialists for nation's critical cyber infrastructure
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is joining Bechtel BNI and Los Alamos National Laboratory to train a new class of cyber defense professionals to protect the nation's critical digital infrastructure. The Bechtel-Lawrence Livermore-Los Alamos Cyber Career Development Program is designed to allow the national labs to recruit and rapidly develop cyber security…
Andreas Kemp receives 2014 ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge award
A team of researchers led by Andreas Kemp has received a 2014 Leadership Computing Challenge award from the DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) to further pursue the study of short-pulse laser interactions with solid density plasmas using supercomputer simulations.The research project entitled "Laser-driven relativistic electron beam filamentation…
A computer code led to entrepreneurial success
Editor's note: This article is part of an occasional series about LLNL entrepreneurs. John Hallquist knew it was a game changer when he invented a small computer code to analyze the structures of bombs dropped by U.S. Air Force jets. It was 1976 and Hallquist was a young engineer who had joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory after getting his Ph.D. from Michigan…
First-of-a-kind supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore available for collaborative research
Catalyst, a first-of-a-kind supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is available to industry collaborators to test big data technologies, architectures and applications.Developed by a partnership of Cray,Intel and Lawrence Livermore, this Cray CS300 high performance computing (HPC) cluster is available for collaborative projects with industry…
Livermore joins with Oak Ridge and Argonne to develop next supercomputers
The Lab has joined forces with two other national labs to deliver next generation supercomputers able to perform up to 200 peak petaflops (quadrillions of floating point operations per second), about 10 times faster than today's most powerful high performance computing (HPC) systems. The Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne and Livermore (CORAL) national labs will produce…
Dona Crawford selected for California Council on Science and Technology
Dona Crawford, associate director for Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been selected as a member of the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST). The council is an assembly of corporate CEOs, academics, scientists and scholars who are leaders in their respective fields. CCST members provide expert counsel on the science and technology…
'Science on Saturday' presents Fusion Modeling Feb. 8
The second presentation in the Science on Saturday series is Saturday, Feb. 8, with Lawrence Livermore scientist Frederico Fiuza and Los Gatos High School teacher Dan Burns presenting "Fusion Modeling: Using Big Computers to Understand One of the Universe's Biggest Secrets." For a preview of the talk, visit YouTube.Fusion energy is a possible long-term energy solution to…
Journal cover features Lawrence Livermore's intense laser interaction simulation research
Research from the Lab'sFrederic Perez, Andreas Kemp, Laurent Divol, Cliff Chen and Prav Patel is featured on the cover of the Dec. 13 2013 issue of Physical Review Letters. For several decades, physicists have used lasers of very high power, such as at LLNL's Jupiter Laser Facility, to create extreme states of matter. By focusing such lasers to a beam as narrow as a few…
Media advisory: LLNL's 'Science On Saturday' explores nature by computer simulation
WHO: Lawrence Livermore scientist Vic Castillo and Monte Vista High School teacher Rodger Johnson will present "Computer Simulation: Exploring Nature With a Computer."WHAT: Computers are becoming an increasingly cheaper, more powerful tool that cannot be ignored by professionals. Computer simulation reproduces the behavior of natural- and man-made systems to help us…
Trish Damkroger selected one of HPCWire's 2014 'People to Watch'
Trish Damkroger, LLNL deputy associate director for Computation, has been named one of the "People to Watch" in High Performance Computing (HPC) for 2014 by HPCWire, the online news service covering supercomputing. Damkroger, who has served in numerous leadership positions in the Computation Directorate, is the chair for the Supercomputing Conference 2014 (SC14), which…
LLNL's Saturday lectures explore computational modeling
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's popular lecture series, "Science on Saturday," returns Feb. 1 and runs through March 1. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the program. The series will offer four lectures with a theme of computational modeling. Topics include exploring nature via computer simulation; fusion modeling; menacing microbes; and simulating the human…
Lawrence Livermore researchers awarded a billion supercomputer core hours
LIVERMORE, Calif. - As part of the Department of Energy's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, 13 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have been awarded more than a billion core hours on two of America's fastest supercomputers dedicated to open science --Mira, an IBM Blue Gene/Q system located at Argonne…
Sequoia retains top ranking on Graph 500 for third year running
LLNL's 20 petaflops Sequoia supercomputer again retained its No. 1 ranking on the Graph 500 list, a measure of a system's ability to conduct analytic calculations -- finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. An IBM Blue Gene Q system, Sequoia was able to traverse 15,363 giga edges per second on a scale of 40 graph (a graph with 2^40 vertices). The new Graph 500 list…
LLNL supercomputing recognized at SC13
The Laboratory's green computing and industry outreach programs were recognized with awards from HPCWire Tuesday at Supercomputing 2013 (SC13) in Denver, Colo. The Computation Directorate and Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program's effort to make the Lab's Hiigh Performance Computing (HPC) facilities as energy efficient as possible received a Reader's Choice…
LLNL signs agreement with maker of big data software
The Laboratory will evaluate the topological data analysis software produced by Ayasdi for tackling big data problems under a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed at LLNL Thursday.Ayasdi's Insight Discovery platform uses Topological Data Analysis (TDA) combined with an ensemble of machine learning techniques to enable data scientists, domain experts and business people…
LLNL scientists find precipitation, global warming link
The rain in Spain may lie mainly on the plain, but the location and intensity of that rain is changing not only in Spain but around the globe.A new study by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists shows that observed changes in global (ocean and land) precipitation are directly affected by human activities and cannot be explained by natural variability alone. The…
LLNL, Intel, Cray produce big data machine to serve as catalyst for next-generation HPC clusters
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in partnership with Intel and Cray, today announced a unique high performance computing (HPC) cluster that will serve research scientists at all three institutions and provide a proving ground for new HPC and Big Data technologies and architectures. "As the name implies, Catalyst aims to accelerate HPC simulation and big data…
Livermore team successfully leads important test of a conventional warhead for the DoD
LLNL served as technical lead and integrator on an important test to assess a new conventional warhead designed by the Lab. Dave Hare, Livermore's program manager of the test, called it an "unequivocal success." Below is the press release from the Department of Defense Defense Department successfully conducts warhead sled test The Defense Department announced recently the…
