New Commodity Supercomputing Clusters Deployed at NNSA Labs Claim TOP500 Spots

Three of the newest National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) commodity computing clusters recently deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) are among the most powerful supercomputing systems in the world, Top500 organizers announced Monday. Funded under the second Commodity Technology Systems contract (CTS-2) by NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program, […]

Data Days Brings Department of Energy Labs Together for Discussions on Data Management and More

Data researchers, developers, data managers and program managers from the Department of Energy national laboratories visited Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Oct. 24-26 to discuss the latest in data management, sharing and accessibility at the 2023 DOE Data Days (D3) workshop. The three-day event, sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of Defense Nuclear […]

LLNL Director Kim Budil Named to Fast Company’s List of Most Creative People in Business

July 6, 2023 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Director Kim Budil has been selected by Fast Company as one of the Most Creative People in Business for 2023. The annual list, in its 15th year, recognizes individuals making an impact in society via daring achievements in their chosen fields, from tech to design to healthcare. Budil was selected […]

@HPCpodast: Supercomputing Strategists Look out 20 Years at the Post-Exascale HPC Future

Post-exascale supercomputing for the NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration) is the subject of a new report by a distinguished review committee comprised of notable supercomputing experts, three of whom presented their findings at a webinar last week. Among other observations Shahin and Doug came away with is that those responsible for guiding U.S. supercomputing leadership on the global stage are under relentless pressure, in an increasingly challenging environment, to make mistake-free, long-term strategic choices. Their task is like that of Sisyphus, except the boulder never rolls down the mountain, it must eternally be pushed up. As one of the panelists — Dan Reed of the University of Idaho — said, “in supercomputing, these are the best of times and the worst of times.”

DOE Announces Recipients of $8.3M for High Energy Density Plasmas Research

Aug. 8, 2022 — Today, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science (SC) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced the recipients of $8.3 million for 20 research projects in High-Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas (HEDLP). The list of projects can be found on the FES homepage under the heading “What’s New.” The projects were selected […]

NNSA Completes LLNL Exascale Facility for El Capitan

WASHINGTON – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced the completion of construction on the Exascale Computing Facility Modernization project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. The project upgraded the electrical and mechanical capabilities of the Livermore Computing Center, which will enable the facility to power the first […]

DOE CSGF Names 33 Graduate Fellows

Ames, Iowa — May 16, 2022 — The Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) will receive 33 new graduate students for 2022-23 — the program’s largest class on record. The new fellows will attend a total of 19 universities across the country as they learn to apply high-performance computing (HPC) to research […]

Cornelis Fabric Tapped by DOE / NNSA for Advanced Sim

Cornelis Networks announced it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) as an HPC network provider for the NNSA’s Tri-Laboratory Commodity Technology System 2 (CTS-2) system contract. NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program recently awarded Dell Technologies a contract to deliver computing systems totaling more than 40 petaflops to […]

NNSA in $40M Deal for 40PFLOPS of Dell HPC Clusters

Sept. 21, 2001 — The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s (DOE/NNSA’s) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced the awarding of a subcontract to Dell Technologies for additional supercomputing systems to support NNSA’s nuclear deterrent mission. In partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), the second Commodity Technology Systems […]

DOE Picks 32 Students for Computational Fellowships

June 2, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)announced the selection of 32 outstanding undergraduate and graduate students across the nation to receive the prestigious DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, jointly managed by the Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). A list of fellows, their institutions, and their fields […]