LLNL Uses HPC to Push Fusion Target Design with AI

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) say they have reached a milestone in combining AI with fusion target design by deploying AI agents on two supercomputers to automate and accelerate inertial confinement fusion ….

LLNL: Deep Learning Model Predicts Toxic Plume Movement

In a study published in PNAS Nexus, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) described a new deep learning model, called ST-GasNet, capable of predicting toxic plume behavior in just a few minutes.

AI for Science: Livermore Lab Expands Deployment of Anthropic AI

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is expanding its deployment of Anthropic’s Claude for Enterprise to its entire laboratory. Claude will be available to about 10,000 scientists ….

National Lab’s Machine Learning Project to Advance Seismic Monitoring Across Energy Industries

A new initiative designed to revolutionize seismic monitoring and forecasting using real time, advanced machine learning (ML) technologies is coming to the West Texas/New Mexico area. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Technology Commercialization Fund awarded $1.8 million in funding to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The project is known as RECONNECT, or the Real-time […]

TOP500: El Capitan Stays on Top, US Holds Top 3 Supercomputers, Europe Expands in Leadership HPC

The new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, released this morning at the ISC 2025 conference in Germany, shows an expanding European presence among the top ….

LLNL Examines Exoplanet Atmospheres with HPC

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

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

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 ….

News Bytes Podcast 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LANL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers

Happy February to one and all! The HPC-AI world was upended last week by AI benchmark numbers from DeepSeek, as the dust settles we offer a brief  commentary on what, at this stage, it may mean ….

HPC News Bytes 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LANL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers

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 ….