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HPC, Simulation, and Data Science

Lab joins HPC leaders in effort to address data storage challenges

The Laboratory has joined forces with Cray, Data Direct Networks and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to form a non-profit corporation dedicated to addressing one of the great challenges facing High Performance Computing - data storage and management.Open Scalable File System, Inc. (OpenSFS) will focus on the development of high performance computing (HPC) storage software…

Unclassified computing scales to new heights

Unclassified high performance computing at the Laboratory will scale new heights with the recent installation of Sierra, a Dell supercomputing system.Clocking in at a peak speed of 261 teraFLOP/s (trillion floating operation per second), Sierra will become the most powerful high performance computing (HPC) resource available for unclassified research at LLNL. The new…

Dona Crawford, Lab's computation leader, named to Alameda County Women's Hall of Fame

Dona Crawford, the associate director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Computation Directorate, has been named to the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame as Outstanding Woman of the Year. Crawford will receive her award, along with eight other winners, on Saturday, March 26, during a special ceremony at the Oakland City Center.Crawford, who is receiving her…