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Labs, industry form centers of excellence to speed research, strengthen national security
IBM, along with NVIDIA and two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, today announced a pair of Centers of Excellence for supercomputing — one at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the other at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The collaborations are in support of IBM’s supercomputing contract with the Department of Energy. They will enable advanced,…
Lawrence Livermore breaks ground on unclassified supercomputing facility
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory broke ground today on a modular and sustainable supercomputing facility that will provide a flexible infrastructure able to accommodate the Laboratory’s growing demand for high performance computing (HPC). The $9.875 million building, located on the Laboratory’s east side, will ensure computer room space to support the Advanced…
LLNL researchers garner two contracts for rocket propulsion, space launch vehicle work
Two recent contracts worth nearly $1.5 million have brought the Laboratory back into the rocket development business.The last Livermore designed and fabricated rocket vehicle, powered by an LLNL engine, was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1994. It was conceived and designed by aerospace engineer John Whitehead and his team, which included collaborators from…
Security risks and privacy issues are too great for moving the ballot box to the Internet
Contrary to popular belief, the fundamental security risks and privacy problems of Internet voting are too great to allow it to be used for public elections, and those problems will not be resolved any time soon, according to David Jefferson, who has studied the issue for more than 15 years.Jefferson, a computer scientist in the Lawrence Livermore’s Center for Applied…
Edgar Leon named IEEE senior member
Edgar Leon, a computer scientist in the Livermore Computing (LC) Division, has been elevated to the grade of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) senior member.Only 7 percent of IEEE's approximately 431,000 members hold this prestigious status, which reflects professional maturity and requires extensive experience and documented achievements. "I’m…
Labs team up with historically black colleges and universities in cybersecurity consortium
LIVERMORE, California – With national and global threats related to cybercrime at an all-time high, there is a considerable and growing need for expertise in cybersecurity. The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) recently announced that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will participate as a partner in a Cybersecurity…
Energy and cost savings from LLNL data center consolidation earn DOE award
The Laboratory effort to conserve energy and reduce costs by consolidating data centers at LLNL has received a Sustainability Award from the U.S. Department of Energy. The program, begun in 2011, using LLNL’s High Performance Computing Strategic Facility Plan as a guide, has so far shutdown 26 data centers, representing 26,000 square feet of space, resulting in annual…
Top 10 science and technology stories of 2014
In 2014, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) built on a 62-year tradition of translating basic science into technologies that ensure national security, address pressing real world problems and expand the boundaries of fundamental science.The top stories of the year are a reflection of the Laboratory’s ability to apply its core national security competencies to a…
Lab researchers awarded time on top computers to advance science
As part of the Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, eight Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have been awarded nearly 800 million core hours on two of America’s fastest supercomputers dedicated to open science – Mira, an IBM Blue Gene/Q system located at Argonne National…
Lab, RAND Corporation partner to advance policy analysis through supercomputing
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the RAND Corporation will collaborate to expand the use of high performance computing (HPC) in decision analysis and policymaking. Lawrence Livermore Science and Technology Deputy Director Greg Suski and Susan Marquis, RAND vice president, Emerging Policy Research and Methods and dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School,…
Catalyst supercomputer collaboration recognized by HPCWire
The partnership that produced the first-of-a-kind Catalyst supercomputer was selected for an HPCWire "Best HPC Collaboration Between Government & Industry" award by readers and editors of the publication.HPCWire publisher Tom Tabor presented the award to representatives from the Laboratory, Intel and Cray in the DOE booth at the SC14 supercomputing conference in New…
Lawrence Livermore tops Graph 500
New Orleans, Louisiana. Nov. 18, 2014 -- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists’ search for new ways to solve large complex national security problems led to the top ranking on Graph 500 and new techniques for solving large graph problems on small high performance computing (HPC) systems, all the way down to a single server. "To fulfill our missions in national…
Next-generation supercomputer coming to Lab
Livermore, California -- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced a contract with IBM to deliver a next-generation supercomputer in 2017. The system, to be called Sierra, will serve the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program.Procurement of Sierra is part of a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)…
Supercomputers link proteins to drug side effects
LIVERMORE, California - New medications created by pharmaceutical companies have helped millions of Americans alleviate pain and suffering from their medical conditions. However, the drug creation process often misses many side effects that kill at least 100,000 patients a year, according to the journal Nature. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have…
Randles receives National Institutes of Health award to pursue cancer research
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory computational scientist Amanda Randles has received a Director's Early Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).The NIH Common Fund award provides funding to encourage exceptional young scientists to pursue "high risk, high reward" independent research in biomedical and behavioral science. Randles will receive…
Lab enters partnership with Minority Business Development Agency
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement last week with the San Francisco Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) Business Center that enables both sides to tap into resources to help develop minority-owned businesses.The SF Business Center is one of many across the nation operated by the MBDA, an agency within the Department of…
New project is the ACME of addressing climate change
High performance computing (HPC) will be used to develop and apply the most complete climate and Earth system model to address the most challenging and demanding climate change issues. Eight national laboratories, including Lawrence Livermore, are combining forces with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, four academic institutions and one private-sector company…
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…
