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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…
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…
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…
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…
DOE HPC4Mfg Program seeks to fund new proposals to jumpstart energy technologies
LIVERMORE, Calif – A new U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program designed to spur the use of high performance supercomputers to advance U.S. manufacturing is now seeking a second round of proposals from industry to compete for approximately $3 million in new funding.The High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) Program currently supports 15 projects partnering…
DOE funds 'HPC for manufacturing' projects
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and partners announce 10 new industry projects to advance manufacturing using high performance computing under a DOE programIndustry projects ranging from improved turbine blades for aircraft engines and reduced heat loss in electronics to waste reduction in paper manufacturing and improved fiberglass production are among the first to…
NASA features LLNL star-formation simulations
High performance computing (HPC) simulations exploring star formation by Lawrence Livermore astrophysicist Richard Klein were among select research highlights featured by NASA at the recent supercomputing conference in Austin, Texas.Klein’s "Simulating Star Formation: From Giant Molecular Clouds to Protostellar Clusters" presentation is now on NASA’s website.The origin of…
Tri-lab collaboration that will bring Sierra supercomputer to Lab recognized
The collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore (CORAL) that will bring the Sierra supercomputer to the Lab in 2018 has been recognized by HPCWire with an Editor’s Choice Award for Best HPC Collaboration between Government and Industry.The award was received by Doug Wade, head of the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program, in the DOE booth at…
State grant enables energy-saving retrofit of Lawrence Livermore computing clusters
Supercomputers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will be retrofitted with liquid cooling systems under a California Energy Commission (CEC) grant to assess potential energy savings. Asetek, a leading provider of energy, efficient liquid cooling systems for data centers, servers and HPC clusters, has received a $3.5 million grant from the CEC for retrofits at…
NNSA green-lights new open campus building
The Laboratory has received approval from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to take a first step toward building a new facility for the High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC) in the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC).As a result, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS) has released a Notice of Opportunity in Fed Biz Ops seeking…
Labs tap Silicon Valley to bolster computing
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory today announced the awarding of a subcontract to Penguin Computing — a leading developer of high-performance Linux cluster computing systems based in Silicon Valley — to bolster computing for stockpile stewardship at its three national security laboratories. Under the terms of…
Lab hosts 'smart manufacturing' conference
As industries worldwide undergo a sea change spurred by fast-moving technologies, how should society define manufacturing? And what are the best ways to improve the efficiency of emerging manufacturing processes?More than 60 representatives from the national labs, private industry, local counties and municipalities and universities met Thursday at Lawrence Livermore…
Program puts HPC in hands of manufacturers
A new Department of Energy (DOE) initiative will allow industry to leverage the high performance computing (HPC) capabilities of Lawrence Livermore (LLNL), Oak Ridge and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories to advance clean energy manufacturing technologies. The new program was announced by David Danielson, assistant secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy …
LLNL joins Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to promote industry adoption of supercomputing
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) will combine decades of expertise to help American industry and businesses expand use of high performance computing (HPC) under a recently signed memorandum of understanding."It’s well recognized that HPC is key to accelerating technological innovation and to fueling a nation’s…
Tri-Valley panelists discuss rise of computing
Software development is rapidly transforming computing technology to the benefit of society, but the scarcity of "computing talent in the pipeline" impacts the pace of progress, a panel of computing experts concluded Thursday at Casa Real in Pleasanton.The lunchtime discussion, under the title "Software — Partnerships Key to an Innovative Ecology," was part of the 7th…
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,…
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)…
