Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory released this update on researchers’ use of high performance computing resources to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, which are planets beyond our own solar system. The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb ….
Three LLNL Scientists Honored with Presidential Early Career Award
February 25, 2025 by
Design physicist Kelli Humbird, who has been recognized for her innovative application of machine learning in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) physics, was one of three distinguished LLNL researchers honored with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award. Humbird and LLNL colleagues Tomi Akindele and Holly Carlton were among the nearly 400 […]
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Spack Builder Todd Gamblin of LLNL on the Why’s and How’s of Change in HPC
February 20, 2025 by
In our continuing series on current and future leaders of HPC-AI, Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s Todd Gamblin has a well-deserved reputation in the HPC software community as a passionate ….
HPC News Bytes 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LANL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers
February 3, 2025 by
The HPC-AI world was upended last week by DeepSeek AI benchmark numbers, as the dust settles we offer commentary on what it may, at this stage, mean: Five lessons from DeepSeek, Intel GPU rack scale architecture ….
Los Alamos and OpenAI Partner on National Security
February 2, 2025 by
Los Alamos National Laboratory has entered a partnership with OpenAI to install its latest o-series models — which the lab said are capable of expert reasoning for complex scientific problems — on the lab’s Venado supercomputer, which uses NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, to conduct national security research. “As threats to the nation become ….
HPC News Bytes 20250106: ‘Beyond’ EUV Lithography, China Chip Sanction Workaround, Microsoft’s $80B AI Build-Out, TSMC 2nm in 2025
January 6, 2025 by
Here’s a rapid (5:54) rundown of recent news from the HPC-AI sector, including: DOE and LLNL lead effort to go ‘beyond’ EUV lithography, report: ByteDance pursues chip trade sanction workaround, Microsoft’s $80B AI ….
LLNL to Lead Research on Advancing Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography
January 3, 2025 by
EUV, extreme ultraviolet lithography, is nearly completely associated with the Dutch company ASML, the only maker of EUV machines that are used by TSMC, Intel and other chip manufacturers of advanced HPC-AI chips. Now Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory has ….
insideHPC Vanguard: LLNL’s Kathryn Mohror — A Passion for Managing Scientific Data
December 12, 2024 by
Kathryn Mohror was introduced to HPC in 2002 as a graduate student at Portland State University, where she studied new remote memory access features of the Message Passing Interface (MPI). She got hooked on achieving the best performance possible ….
@HPCpodcast: An Analysis of the New TOP500 List of Top Supercomputers
November 18, 2024 by
SC24 here in Atlanta is off to a great start with more than 17,000 attendees (a 21 percent increase over 2023), 480 exhibitors from 29 countries and a new TOP500 list that features a new champion supercomputer!
Livermore Lab and Oxide Computer Team on Advancing Cloud and HPC Convergence
November 18, 2024 by
SAN FRANCISCO – November 18, 2024 — Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced a plan to bring on-premises cloud computing capabilities to the Livermore Computing (LC) high performance computing center. The rack-scale Oxide Cloud Computer is intended to allow LLNL to improve the efficiency of operational workloads and provide LC […]
