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LLNL team's code that greatly improves molecular dynamic performance among Gordon Bell Prize finalists
A Lawrence Livermore team’s dramatically improved first-principles molecular dynamics code that promises to enable new computer simulation applications was one of the finalists for the 2016 Gordon Bell Prize. The team presented its ground breaking project at the 2016 supercomputing conference (SC16) held in Salt Lake City, Utah Nov. 12-18. "Modeling Dilute Solutions using…
Lawrence Livermore tapped to lead 'co-design' center for exascale computing ecosystem
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was one of four national labs selected today to lead a "co-design" center by the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) as part of a four-year, $48 million funding award. Each co-design center will receive $3 million annually. See the announcement. The ECP is responsible for the planning, execution and delivery…
Scientists selected to lead Exascale Computing Project software development
Lawrence Livermore scientists are among those awarded funding to develop software for the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP). The ECP announced today the selection of 35 software development proposals representing 25 research and academic organizations. The awards for the first year of funding total $34 million and cover many components of the software…
LLNL wins three R&D 100 awards
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have garnered three awards among the top 100 industrial inventions worldwide for 2016. The trade journal R&D Magazine announced the winners of its annual awards, sometimes called the "Oscars of invention," Thursday at the Gaylord Convention Center in Washington, D.C. With this year’s results, the Laboratory has now…
ASML taps Lawrence Livermore to develop extreme EUV for chip manufacturing
LIVERMORE, Calif. – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and ASML Holding NV (ASML) have successfully established plasma simulation capabilities to advance extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light sources toward the manufacturing of next-generation semiconductors. Under a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA), ASML is leveraging LLNL’s expertise in lasers…
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Meet Marisol Gamboa
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, the Amigos Unidos Hispanic employee resource group and the Office of Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Programs at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are highlighting two Hispanic Laboratory employees, Octavio Cervantes and Marisol Gamboa. ____________ Introducing: Marisol Gamboa At just…
How this Martian moon became the 'Death Star'
Mars’ largest moon, Phobos, has captured public imagination and been shrouded in mystery for decades. But numerical simulations recently conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have shed some light on the enigmatic satellite. The dominant feature on the surface of Phobos (22-kilomters across) is Stickney crater (9-km across), a mega crater that spans…
Laboratory and Norwegian researchers collaborate to improve cancer screening
Laboratory computer scientists and Norwegian researchers are collaborating to apply high performance computing (HPC) to the analysis of medical data to improve screening for cervical cancer. The convergence of high performance computing, big data and life science is enabling the development of personalized medicine, says Ghaleb Abdulla, Livermore lead on the collaboration…
National labs' researchers join effort to develop applications under Exascale Computing Project
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) on Wednesday announced its first round of funding with the selection of 15 application development proposals for full funding and seven proposals for seed funding, representing teams from 45 research and academic organizations, including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The awards, totaling $39…
DOE's HPC for manufacturing seeks industry proposals to advance energy technology
LIVERMORE, Calif. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) High Performance Computing for Manufacturing program, designed to spur the use of national lab supercomputing resources and expertise to advance innovation in energy efficient manufacturing, is seeking a new round of proposals from industry to compete for $3 million. The High Performance Computing for Manufacturing …
Lab fellowship enriches intern's bucket list
Michigan native Jane Herriman is one of 19 interns completing fellowships at Lawrence Livermore’s Computational Chemistry and Materials Science (CCMS) Summer Institute. The 10-week program matches graduate students to scientists who mentor them and offers courses and twice-weekly lectures to round out the experience. For more than 15 years, the CCMS Summer Institute has…
DOE HPC4Mfg Program funds 13 new projects to jumpstart clean energy technologies
A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program designed to spur the use of high performance supercomputers to advance U.S. manufacturing has funded 13 new industry projects for a total of $3.8 million. The High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) Program creates an ecosystem that allows experts at DOE’s national laboratories to work directly with manufacturing…
RAND and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory combine high performance computing and public policy analysis for demonstration of water resource management
Researchers from the RAND Corporation and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have joined forces to combine high-performance computing with innovative public policy analysis to improve planning for particularly complex issues such as such as water resource management. Building on previous work conducted by RAND on the Colorado River Basin in 2012, RAND and the…
Energy Department to invest $16 million to accelerate computer design of materials
The Department of Energy announced Tuesday that it will invest $16 million over the next four years to accelerate the design of new materials through the use of supercomputers. Two four-year projects will take advantage of superfast computers at DOE national laboratories by developing software to design fundamentally new functional materials destined to revolutionize…
'Monarch of the Hill' crowns three days of challenges for aspiring cyber defenders
Students in the Cyber Defenders class of 2016 put the breadth of what they’ve learned to the test in what is now called the "Monarch of the Hill" team competition, an intensive three days of real-worldcyber security challenges. "The competition allows students to apply what they’ve learned in classes, seminars and workshops," said Celeste Matarazzo of Computation’s Center…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory chemist named Howes Scholar
Lawrence Fellow Aurora Pribram-Jones is one of two recipients of the Howes Scholar award presented by the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) Program at its annual program review. The award, presented Tuesday (July 26), was established to honor Fredrick Anthony Howes, who managed the DOE Applied Mathematical Science Program during the…
Livermore, Berkeley labs lead project to increase power grid cybersecurity
Cybersecurity experts Jamie Van Randwyk of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Sean Peisert of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are leading a new program to develop new data analysis methods to better protect the nation’s power grid. The project, "Threat Detection and Response with Data Analytics," is part of a $220 million, three-year…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory dedicates new supercomputer facility
Officials from the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and government representatives today dedicated a new supercomputing facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The $9.8 million modular and sustainable facility provides the Laboratory flexibility to accommodate future advances in computer technology and meet a rapidly…
List of top supercomputers dominated by China
DOE laboratories, including LLNL, home to four of the top 10 most powerful supercomputers The latest Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is dominated by China. The new edition of the list was released Monday at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC16) in Frankfurt, Germany. China now has the two top-ranked systems on the list and, for the…
Undergrad collaborations prime hiring pipeline
Opportunities for students to garner experience from leaders in their fields are few and far between, but Brigham Young University (BYU) and Lawrence Livermore have created one such collaboration.Through a program established this year with the help of Livermore’s Benjy Grover, computer science students in BYU’s undergraduate big data science capstone course connect with…
