LLNL Ignition Celebration Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-05-15 | On a day certain to rank in the upper echelon of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) historical milestones, Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration officials, members of Congress, past Lab directors and employees gathered outside the National Ignition Facility on May 8 to celebrate the Lab’s 2022 fusion ignition achievement. Read more about the event and how this historic fusion achievement is the “beginning to new era of discovery and innovation”: llnl.gov/news/igniting-future-hundreds-gather-celebrate-historic-fusion-achievementOn Dec. 5, 2022, LLNL made history, demonstrating fusion ignition for the first time in a laboratory setting—an achievement six decades in the making. Fusion ignition will provide unprecedented capability to support the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Stockpile Stewardship Program and invaluable insights into the prospects of clean fusion energy. Learn more about ignition: www.llnl.gov/ignition 💻 LLNL News: llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: instagram.com/livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: facebook.com/livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: twitter.com/Livermore_Lab 🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LivermoreLab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/. LLNL-VIDEO-849112#FusionIgnition #LLNL #NationalIgnitionFacility
Lawrence Livermore Lab SAGE Camp 2023 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-07-28 | Science Accelerating Girls' Engagement (SAGE) is a free, one-week summer camp for Northern California public high school students (age 14-17) from all backgrounds. The SAGE Mission is to engage curious and passionate young women and empower them to explore a wide range of possibilities for their future. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) SAGE camp was held July 9-15, 2023. Hosted by professional scientists and engineers with a passion for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), SAGE builds community, fosters innovation, and sets young women on a path to exciting careers, like those they will learn about at LLNL.In conjunction with other Department of Energy national laboratories, SAGE aims to broaden the participation of women in STEM and foster creativity and innovation for continued scientific discovery and technological leadership. Learn more about SAGE: st.llnl.gov/sci-ed/SAGE
Data Science Meets Fusion Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-05-30 | On December 5, 2022, researchers at LLNL’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) conducted the first experiment to ever achieve net energy gain from nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion drives our sun and all the stars in the night sky, and harnessing it would mean a future of limitless carbon-free, safe, clean energy. After several decades of research, fusion breakeven at NIF brings humanity one step closer to that dream. However, the experiment’s result was not actually that surprising. A team leveraging data science techniques developed and used a landmark system for teaching artificial intelligence (AI) to incorporate and better account for different variables and experimental scenarios, creating specific parameters for simulations leading up to the successful December experiment. In this video, LLNL researcher Jayaraman Thiagarajan explains how machine learning and AI models help advance scientific discovery; Kelli Humbird describes how the process of Cognitive Simulation predicted the successful fusion ignition shot; and Luc Peterson discusses the future of this predictive technology. LLNL’s Data Science Institute (DSI) was established in 2018 to enable excellence in data science research and applications across the Lab’s core missions. Learn more about the Data Science Institute at data-science.llnl.gov/. 💻 LLNL News: llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: instagram.com/livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: facebook.com/livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: twitter.com/Livermore_Lab 🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LivermoreLab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/. LLNL-VIDEO-849599#LLNL #DataScienceInstitute #Fusion #DataScience
zfp: Fast, Accurate Data Compression for Modern Supercomputing Applications Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-05-30 | Developed at LLNL, the zfp software library provides a comprehensive solution to both lossy and lossless data compression. zfp reduces the storage space of high-precision floating-point data without sacrificing its accuracy. Unique among data compressors, zfp is designed to be a compact number format for storing data arrays in-memory in compressed form while still supporting high-speed random access. zfp divides multidimensional arrays into small blocks that are independently compressed and decompressed on demand when an array element is accessed, without the application’s knowledge. This flexibility allows applications to work with zfp arrays as though they were regular uncompressed arrays while saving storage, time, and compute power. Learn more at zfp.llnl.gov and github.com/LLNL/zfp. 💻 LLNL News: llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: instagram.com/livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: facebook.com/livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: twitter.com/Livermore_Lab 🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LivermoreLab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/. LLNL-VIDEO-849594 #LLNL #LLNLcomputing #zfp #Data #DataCompression #DataScience
Variorum: Vendor-Agnostic Power Management Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-05-25 | Pushing our supercomputers to their limits requires getting closer to the metal than standard software and operating systems allow. Variorum provides robust, portable interfaces that allow us to measure and optimize computation at the physical level: temperature, cycles, energy, and power. With that foundation, we can get the best possible use of our world-class computing resources—from purchasing to runtime systems to job scheduling. Learn more:variorum.readthedocs.iocomputing.llnl.gov/projects/variorum LLNL-VIDEO-849488#Variorum #LLNLComputing #LLNL
LLNL Ignition Celebration Recap Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-05-18 | On a day certain to rank in the upper echelon of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) historical milestones, Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration officials, members of Congress, past Lab directors and employees gathered outside the National Ignition Facility on May 8 to celebrate the Lab’s 2022 fusion ignition achievement. Read more about the event and how this historic fusion achievement is the “beginning to new era of discovery and innovation”: llnl.gov/news/igniting-future-hundreds-gather-celebrate-historic-fusion-achievementWatch LLNL's Ignition Celebration video: youtu.be/oIxVvA3qYfY💻 LLNL News: llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: instagram.com/livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: facebook.com/livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: twitter.com/Livermore_Lab 🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LivermoreLab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/. LLNL-VIDEO-849112#FusionIgnition #LLNL #NationalIgnitionFacility
Sustainability and Polymer Additive Manufacturing at LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-05-18 | Within the Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory at LLNL, polymer and materials scientists have state-of-the-art equipment and facilities needed to tackle the challenges in making the next-generation of polymers using additive manufacturing (3D printing). Highlighted in this video are some of those techniques, types of printing methods, and current targets for sustainable, recyclable, and reusable crosslinked thermoset polymer materials.LLNL-VIDEO-841004
Materials Science at Extreme Environments, University Research Alliance – LLNL/UCSD Collaboration Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-05-17 | Sophie Parsons and Ross Turner are UC San Diego grad students performing their Ph.D. research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as part of the Materials Science in Extreme Environments University Research Alliance. Their work is aimed at understanding and optimizing the ability of high-power lasers to simulate x-ray blow-off and thermo-mechanical shocks. For their research, they are working with several different laser facilities at LLNL, including the Optical Science Laser and a new laser capability being deployed called LIGHT (Light Induced compression for Grain scale with High Throughput).LLNL-VIDEO-848865
Brief Introduction to the High Explosives Application Facility Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-05-11 | LLNL’s High Explosives Applications Facility (HEAF) is an explosives research and development Center of Excellence for the Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). One of the most capable facilities of its kind in the world, HEAF houses equipment and technology used by LLNL staff to apply expertise in formulation and synthesis, integrating high explosives (HE) experimental data with computer simulations to understand energetic materials.Learn more about HEAF: wci.llnl.gov/facilities/hydrodynamic-explosives-testing/high-explosives-applications-facility💻 LLNL News: llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: instagram.com/livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: facebook.com/livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: twitter.com/Livermore_Lab 🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LivermoreLab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/. LLNL-VIDEO-847578#LLNL #HEAF #LivermoreLab
Meet the Experts: Luis Martinez, Experimental Physicist Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-04-24 | #PhysicsDay spotlight: Growing up, Luis Martinez never had any role models in science but was always curious. He never dreamed about becoming a physicist, but you could say a light went on in his head when he was in his early 20s. While in community college, Martinez took his first physics course after a friend prodded him to take the class to quench his thirst for understanding how nature works. He was especially interested in understanding light. Today, Martinez works in quantum computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Learn more about Luis’s journey: llnl.gov/news/llnl-celebrates-national-physics-day Learn more about physics at #LLNL: pls.llnl.gov/research-and-development/physics #Physics #LLNLpeople #Physicist #LLNL #LivermoreLab
Meet the Experts: Issa Tamer, Laser Physicist Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-04-24 | #PhysicsDay spotlight: As a high school student, Issa Tamer knew he liked science, but wasn’t sure what discipline to pursue. That all changed when at his part-time job setting up computers, he happened to see the Wikipedia page for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) on a customer’s monitor. He began reading up on NIF and was completely blown away. A general interest in science was replaced with a determination to someday work on powerful lasers at LLNL. Today Issa is a laser physicist at LLNL. Learn more about Issa’s journey: llnl.gov/news/llnl-celebrates-national-physics-day Learn more about physics at #LLNL: pls.llnl.gov/research-and-development/physics #Physics #LLNLpeople #Physicist #LLNL #LivermoreLab
Meet the Experts: Kristi Beck, Experimental Physicist Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-04-24 | #PhysicsDay spotlight: Kristi Beck spent her youth conducting science experiments and building robots with her father. What she discovered was that she was more interested in the precision of how the experiment was set up than the ultimate results. One day, her father told her that if she wanted to know more about how things like transistors work, she would need to study physics. So she did. Today Kristi is an experimental physicist studying quantum computing and quantum sensing at LLNL. Learn more about Kristi’s journey: llnl.gov/news/llnl-celebrates-national-physics-day Learn more about physics at #LLNL: pls.llnl.gov/research-and-development/physics #Physics #LLNLpeople #Physicist #LLNL #LivermoreLab
How Does a Protein Help Us Recycle Metals? | #EarthDay #Shorts Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-04-22 | Researchers at LLNL, Penn State University and Idaho National Lab have developed a process that could help us sustainably recycle rare earth elements...which are ESSENTIAL for our everyday lives.Watch the full video: youtu.be/qUrPbnNLa60Read more at: https://www.llnl.gov/news/e-waste-eat...Read the full paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs....#shorts
S&TR Preview: Joining the Fight to Cure Neurodegenerative Disease Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-03-23 | Through a strategic partnership between LLNL, Livermore Lab Foundation and the ALS CURE Project, the Laboratory is applying its wide-ranging capabilities to study amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.💻 LLNL News: llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: instagram.com/livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: facebook.com/livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: twitter.com/Livermore_Lab 🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LivermoreLab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/. LLNL-VIDEO-846210#LLNL #NeurodegenerativeDisease #LivermoreLab
Meet the Experts: Jessica Jimenez, Control Systems Engineer Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-02-23 | Originally from Puerto Rico, Jessica Jimenez enjoyed math and science in school and was influenced by an older sister who became an electrical engineer. Drawn to electrical system design, Jimenez earned her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at the University of Puerto Rico and came to the Bay Area and the University of California at Berkeley to work on her masters’ degree, researching signal processing. Listen to what she has to say regarding her job at LLNL and why you should consider engineering as a career path! Read more about Jessica’s story: [article link] Learn more about engineering at #LLNL: engineering.llnl.gov #IntroduceAGirlToEngineering #WomenInSTEM #Engineering #LLNLpeople #LLNLwomen #Engineer
Meet the Experts: Blanca Crivello, Manufacturing and Central Planning Office Lead Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-02-22 | Like many research and development institutions, manufacturing plays a major role in engineering at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Blanca Crivello, a supervisor and project coordinator in the Engineering Directorate, works with engineers, technicians, machinists and others to help engineers bring their vision to reality. As a project manager at LLNL, Crivello enjoys being able to help guide projects from the drawing board to fruition and interacting with all facets of the Lab. Listen to what she has to say regarding how her role impacts engineering at the Lab and her advice to women and girls interested in STEM fields! Read more about Blanca’s story: [article link] Learn more about manufacturing and engineering at #LLNL: engineering.llnl.gov/research/amm #WomenInSTEM #Engineering #LLNLpeople #LLNLwomen #Engineer
Meet the Experts: Priyadip Ray, Research Scientist Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-02-21 | Priyadip Ray came to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory out of a desire to do impactful work. Growing up in India, Ray was inspired by his father, a physicist, to pursue science and discovered the potential that engineering had to change lives. After finishing his undergraduate and graduate work in India, Ray obtained his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Syracuse University and completed a stint as a postdoc at Duke University before joining the Lab. Listen to what he has to say regarding his work and why you should consider a role in engineering! Read more about Priyadip’s story: llnl.gov/news/llnl-celebrates-national-engineering-weekintroduce-girl-engineering-day Learn more about engineering at #LLNL: engineering.llnl.gov #Engineering #LLNLpeople #Engineer
Hackathon Puts Machine Learning in the Driver’s Seat Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2023-01-23 | LLNL’s fall 2022 hackathon featured an Amazon Web Services DeepRacer machine learning competition, in which participants used a cloud-based racing simulator to train an autonomous race car with reinforcement learning algorithms. The hackathon provided a unique opportunity to combine cloud, data science, and computing technologies. Learn more about our hackathons at computing.llnl.gov/topic/hackathons.LLNL-VIDEO-844161#LLNL #Hackathon #LLNLcomputing
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieves fusion ignition Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-12-13 | On Dec. 5, 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility conducted the first controlled fusion experiment in history to achieve fusion ignition. Also known as scientific energy breakeven, the experiment produced more energy from fusion than the laser energy used to drive it. The achievement is a major scientific breakthrough that was decades in the making, and will provide unprecedented capability to support the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Stockpile Stewardship Program and provide invaluable insights into the prospects of clean fusion energy.Read more: llnl.gov/news/national-ignition-facility-achieves-fusion-ignition#LLNL #NationalIgnitionFacility #FusionIgnition #Ignition
College Students Learn Valuable Lessons Building Robots for NIF Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-12-06 | When the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory needed a way to safely patrol a dangerous high-voltage area, a team of University of California, Davis engineering students built SAPPHIRE the robot.The prototype SAPPHIRE—short for Semi-Autonomous Pulsed Power Hazard Inspection Robotic Explorer — is seen here in this video during a brief demonstration at NIF. SAPPHIRE was one of three projects that are part of a novel NIF-sponsored plan that strengthens LLNL’s pipelines to college engineering programs. In return, the participating students received valuable real-world experiences that go far beyond what they would learn in the classroom.For more, read our story here; lasers.llnl.gov/news/college-students-learn-valuable-lessons-building-robots-for-nifLLNL-WEB-842229#NationalIgnitionFacility #NIF #LLNL #Shorts
Cybersecurity Summer Institute Internship Program Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-11-18 | The Cybersecurity Summer Institute offers 12-week summer internships where you can tackle today’s real-world computer-security issues with diverse teams of scientists and engineers. Learn more: cyber-internship.llnl.govLLNL-Video-842398#LLNL #LLNLinterns #internships
Understanding the Universe with Applied Statistics Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-11-17 | LLNL’s Data Science Institute (DSI) was established in 2018 to enable excellence in data science research and applications across the Lab’s core missions. Statistician Amanda Muyskens, PhD, describes MuyGPs, her team’s innovative and computationally efficient Gaussian Process hyperparameter estimation method for large data. The method has been applied to space-based image classification and released for open-source use in the Python package MuyGPyS. MuyGPs will help astronomers and astrophysicists working with the massive amounts of data gathered from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), as well as numerous other laboratory and science applications. Learn more about the Data Science Institute at data-science.llnl.gov/. LLNL-VIDEO-842048#LLNL #DataScienceInstitute #DataScience
The Beamline to Ignition Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-11-07 | What happens when 192 of the world’s highest-energy lasers converge on a target the size of a peppercorn filled with hydrogen atoms? Answer: the same thing that happens inside the Sun and the stars: fusion! The National Ignition Facility’s (NIF) laser beams can create nuclear fusion in the laboratory by generating the same kinds of temperatures and pressures that exist in the cores of stars and giant planets and inside nuclear weapons.In this video, you can follow the journey of NIF’s laser beams as they increase in energy from 1 billionth of a joule to 2 million joules of ultraviolet energy by the time they reach the center of the Target Chamber. There, an array of diagnostic instruments measure what happens when the target capsule implodes and the hydrogen atoms inside fuse in a controlled thermonuclear fusion reaction, releasing enormous amounts of energy. Those diagnostics provide an invaluable stream of fusion-related data that informs researchers at the LLNL and around the world.We use NIF’s lasers for several specific missions, including Stockpile Stewardship, high energy density science, Discovery Science, energy security, and building future generations of scientists. And we’re researching more types of applications, including advanced lasers and photonics, additive manufacturing, and missile defense.For more information, go to:lasers.llnl.gov/news/the-beamline-to-ignition-videolasers.llnl.gov/about/how-nif-worksLLNL-VIDEO-840385#NationalIgnitionFacility #FusionIgnition #LLNL
Bioscience & Biotechnology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-11-02 | Researchers in LLNL’s Bioscience & Biotechnology Division work to predict and counter emerging biological and chemical threats and to solve problems in health and environmental security. This video, made to celebrate the Laboratory’s 70th anniversary, highlights some of the important science underway in the division today, from astronaut health to cancer modeling.Read more: pls.llnl.gov/research-and-development/biosciences-and-biotechnologyllnl.gov/news/unprecedented-multiscale-model-protein-behavior-linked-cancer-causing-mutationsllnl.gov/news/lab-microbial-array-used-space-station-studyLLNL-VIDEO-840943
Engineers Use Additive Manufacturing to Build Drone Components Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-11-02 | Mechanical engineers in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Global Security Directorate use computer-aided design and the latest additive manufacturing techniques to design and build custom components for drones in support of the Laboratory’s national security mission. Learn more: llnl.gov/news/new-open-air-facility-will-be-testing-ground-autonomous-drones-vehicles-and-robotsLLNL-Video-841010
70th Anniversary: 70 Years of Science and Technology on a Mission Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-11-01 | 70 Years of Science and Technology on a Mission: Making the impossible possible isn’t just a tagline, it’s been a hallmark of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory since our founding. We’ve accomplished incredible things in pursuit of our national security mission and we’re proud to continue that legacy in the work we’re doing today, tomorrow and for years to come. Listen to what our LLNL people have to say about their time at the Lab.💻 LLNL News: llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: instagram.com/livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: facebook.com/livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: twitter.com/Livermore_Lab 🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LivermoreLab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/. LLNL-VIDEO-839356#LLNL #LLNLcareers #LLNLpeople
Decades of giving through LLNL’s HOME Campaign Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-10-31 | Since 1974, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Helping Others More Effectively (HOME) Campaign has provided employees with the opportunity to donate to their favorite nonprofits via payroll deduction. Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS), which manages the Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, adds up to $1 million, amplifying impact that employee donation has on the selected nonprofit. The HOME Campaign serves as an important way for the Lab to give back to our community. In this video, employees share the personal impact of their favorite charities and why they choose to contribute.#LLNL #LivermoreLab #LLNLpeople
LLNL Open House Career Fair 2022 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-10-27 | Be our guest! We are hosting an Open House Career Fair on Nov. 2, 2022 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Livermore Valley Open Campus. Come meet us and learn more about our job opportunities and the work we do! You’ll have the opportunity to:✅ Meet with hiring teams to discuss job openings✅ Get feedback from recruiters on writing your resume✅ Attend information sessions to learn about our organizationsRead more: llnl.gov/news/lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-host-career-fairGet ahead and see more than 500 available positions: llnl.gov/join-our-team/careers/find-your-job#LLNL #LLNLjobs #LLNLcareers #LLNLpeople #LivermoreLab
Celebrating 70 Years Of Making The Impossible Possible Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-10-20 | On Tuesday, Oct. 11, more than 5,000 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) employees gathered to celebrate the Lab’s 70th anniversary. Throughout the first-ever Employee Engagement Day, dozens of the Lab’s facilities and programs opened their doors for employees to get a close-up look at LLNL’s cutting-edge science and technology. It was a celebration of making the impossible possible, bringing a huge number of Lab colleagues on-site together at the same time for the first time in years.
LLNL will scale new heights with El Capitan Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-10-18 | As home to one of the world’s premier high performance computing facilities, we’re taking things to whole new level in 2023. Exascale! With advanced processors and cutting-edge components from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and AMD, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s first exascale-class supercomputer, El Capitan, is projected to exceed 2 exaFLOPS (two quintillion floating point operations per second) of peak performance, making it one of the most powerful supercomputers (if not THE most powerful) in the world when it comes online. Initially, El Capitan will be made available for open science applications, before being fully dedicated to national security work and ensuring the National Nuclear Security Administration laboratories — LLNL, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory — can meet their mission goals of keeping the nation’s nuclear stockpile safe, secure and reliable. When the exascale era arrives at LLNL, researchers will be able to more efficiently model and simulate complex physics with a level of detail, accuracy and realism not possible today. And by combining simulations with artificial intelligence and machine learning, they’ll unlock entirely new pathways to discovery, including fusion energy. Our scientists will get better, faster answers to their questions, and be able to ask new ones they haven’t even dreamed of before. How will El Capitan change the landscape of science and technology at LLNL? Stay tuned…
7 World-Changing Scientific Discoveries You’ve Never Heard Of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-10-10 | Extreme laser-made nanochips? Chromosome imaging? An experiment that brings us to the threshold of fusion ignition? These achievements and more have opened up new domains in all areas of science, from physics to medicine to computing to astronomy—and all were developed by brilliant minds at Lawrence Livermore over the past seven decades.💻 LLNL News: llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: instagram.com/livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: facebook.com/livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: twitter.com/Livermore_Lab 🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LivermoreLab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/. LLNL-VIDEO-840992
Military Academy Interns at LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-10-10 | The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) hosts military academy cadets and midshipmen under the Military Academic Research Associates (MARA) program to enhance the bonds between LLNL and the armed services and military academies, benefiting DOD, LLNL, and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Since the 1990’s, LLNL and the academies have supported internships by which cadets and midshipmen can participate in multidisciplinary research on real problems critical to national defense and security.LLNL-VIDEO-840523
Exascale Computing Facility Modernization Project Powers LLNL into Exascale Era Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-09-30 | A supercomputer doesn’t just magically appear, especially one as large and as fast as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) upcoming exascale-class El Capitan. Projected to be among the world’s most powerful supercomputers when it is deployed at LLNL in 2023, El Capitan at peak will require about as much power as a small city. Preparing the Livermore Computing Center for El Capitan and the Exascale Era of supercomputers, capable of calculations in the quintillions per second, required an entirely new way of thinking about the facility’s mechanical and electrical capabilities — a utility-scale solution. More than 15 years in planning and development, the $100 million Exascale Computing Facility Modernization (ECFM) project nearly doubles the energy capacity of the Lab’s main computing facility to 85 megawatts – enough electricity to power about 75,000 modest-sized homes. It also expands the facility’s water-cooling system capacity from 10,000 tons to 28,000 tons. The ECFM project required an extensive permitting process, coordination with local utility companies and the contributions of hundreds of people. After breaking ground in 2020, construction crews installed a 115kV transmission line, air switches, substation transformers, a switchgear, relay control enclosures, 13.8 kilovolt secondary feeders and cooling towers In an area adjacent to Building 453 — the Lab’s main computing facility. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the project was finished under budget and months ahead of schedule, completed on June 8, 2022. The upgrade will enable LLNL and the two other National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) laboratories—Los Alamos and Sandia—to use El Capitan and other next-generation supercomputers in the coming years to regularly perform the advanced modeling and simulation necessary to meet the increasingly demanding needs of NNSA’s Stockpile Stewardship Program, which ensures the safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear deterrent.Learn more: exascale.llnl.govLLNL-VIDEO-840463#LLNL #Exascale #LLNLcomputing
LLNL leads new DART Mission paper on inferring asteroid material properties from deflection test Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-09-26 | Two example simulations showing deformation of the asteroid body through time, with colors in the asteroid body showing degree of deformation. The region of deformed material in the simulation on the right grows at a faster rate as the asteroid material is weaker and less porous than the simulation on the left.Read more here: llnl.gov/news/llnl-leads-new-dart-mission-paper-inferring-asteroid-material-properties-deflection-test
Meet the Experts: Andrew Longman, High Energy Density Science Fellow Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-09-23 | Andrew Longman is a High Energy Density Science (HEDS) Fellow at the Lab. Listen to what he has to say regarding this role and why you should apply to be our next #postdoc #fellow! The HEDS Center offers a highly competitive, two-year postdoctoral position at LLNL. HEDS fellowships are awarded to candidates with exceptional talent, scientific track records and potential for significant achievements. Typically, one new fellowship is awarded each year. Fellows are free to pursue their own research agenda under the guidance of a senior staff scientist who serves as a mentor. The fellows typically conduct their research in a collaborative, multidisciplinary, team-based environment with other scientists.Learn more and apply by Oct. 3, 2022: heds-center.llnl.gov/fellowship #PostdoctoralFellowships #LovePostdocs #Postdocs
Meet the Experts: William Schill, LLNL Design Physics Fellow Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-09-22 | William Schill is a Design Physics Fellow at the Lab. Listen to what he has to say regarding this role and why you should apply to be our next #postdoc #fellow! About the Design Physics Fellowships: The Foster and Brown Postdoctoral Fellowships at LLNL are in the Weapons and Complex Integration Directorate. Named after two renowned physicists, John S. Foster, Jr. and Harold Brown, these fellowships recognize individuals whose research aligns with the Laboratory’s national security mission. These prestigious postdoctoral fellowships will allow you to take your skills to the next level and apply them to solving the nation’s most pressing science and engineering challenges.Learn more and apply by Oct. 3, 2022: wci.llnl.gov/careers/postdocs/design-physics-fellowships#PostdoctoralFellowships #LovePostdocs #Postdocs
LLNL 70th Anniversary Lab Director Panel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-09-14 | On a historic occasion in the Livermore wine country, the nine living Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) directors gathered on Sept. 8, 2022 to mark the Laboratory’s 70th anniversary, share stories and discuss their vision for the Lab in the coming years. Hosted by the nonprofit Livermore Lab Foundation, a panel discussion brought past directors John Foster Jr., John Nuckolls, Bruce Tarter, George Miller, Parney Albright and Bill Goldstein together with current director Kim Budil at one table, altogether spanning nearly seven decades of LLNL leadership. Two other previous directors — Michael May and Michael Anastasio — participated via prerecorded talks. Counselor to the LLNL Director Ron Lehman served as panel moderator. Focused on the Lab’s 70th anniversary theme, “Making the Impossible Possible,” the distinguished panelists shared anecdotes from LLNL’s past and discussed challenges facing the Lab in the 21st century, particularly in maintaining operational excellence in an evolving world and attracting and retaining employees amid a changing workplace environment and shifting demographics. More than 200 people were on hand for the event, including many current and retired LLNL employees, dignitaries and local elected officials. Among the guests of honor were Department of Energy Under Secretary of Nuclear Security and Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration Jill Hruby, Livermore Mayor Bob Woerner and Vice Mayor Gina Bonanno (both ex-LLNL employees), Pleasanton Mayor Karla Brown, Alameda County Supervisor David Haubert and representatives from the offices of U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, State Sen. Steve Glazer and State Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan.
LLNL’s Micro- and Nanotechnology Center Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-08-17 | LLNL staff at the Micro- and Nanotechnology Center use micro- and nano-structured devices and materials research to address broad national security applications. LLNL-VIDEO-817155 #LLNL #Nanotechnology #NationalSecurity
Leveling the Playing Field Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-08-04 | Leveling the Playing Field covers the essential skills you need to know to manage your technical career. The video discusses and develop methods to reinforce confidence, to promote yourself and your work, to take the time to plan your career, to make building relationships a top priority, and to ask for what you need to be successful.💻 LLNL News: llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: instagram.com/livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: facebook.com/livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: twitter.com/Livermore_Lab 🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LivermoreLab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/. LLNL-VIDEO-838029#LLNL #LLNLcareers #LLNLpeople
Polymer Production Enclave Puts Additive Manufacturing on the Fast Track Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-07-25 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Kansas City National Security Campus are accelerating the development and production of polymer additive manufacturing to support the national nuclear security enterprise.LLNL-VIDEO-837526
50 years of LLNL Lasers Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-07-21 | In this video, Jeff Wisoff, Principal Associate Director of the National Ignition Facility & Photon Science Directorate, celebrates 50 years of laser leadership at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.LLNL’s experimental laser programs were consolidated into a single division, known as Y Division, on July 10, 1972. From this beginning came a series of increasingly complex and energetic laser systems that enabled cutting-edge research in inertial confinement fusion, material properties under extreme conditions, and high energy density science, all of which today support NNSA’s Stockpile Stewardship program.About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/. LLNL-VIDEO-837719#LLNL #NationalIgnitionFacility #Lasers
Spider-Inspired Technology Inside the Worlds Most Energetic Laser Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-07-13 | Fusion experiments at the National Ignition Facility rely on extreme precision and symmetry. Taking a cue from nature, LLNL's engineers and scientists are working with a breakthrough material to get us closer and closer to achieving fusion ignition.💻 LLNL News: llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: instagram.com/livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: facebook.com/livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: twitter.com/Livermore_Lab 🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LivermoreLab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/. LLNL-VIDEO-834113#LLNL #EnergeticLaser #Fusion
A Brief Introduction to Livermore Computing Complex Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-07-06 | LLNL’s Livermore Computing Complex is home to several of the world's fastest supercomputers, including the 125-petflops Sierra, and numerous workhorse clusters. All these platforms, and the people who run them, help Livermore Computing remain one of the world’s leading high performance computing centers.LLNL-VIDEO-836724
Sierra Supercomputer Dedication Introduction Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-06-28 | On October 26, 2018, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and its industry partners officially unveiled Sierra, one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, at a dedication ceremony to celebrate the system’s completion.Sierra will serve the NNSA’s three nuclear security laboratories, LLNL, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory, providing high-fidelity simulations in support of NNSA’s core mission of ensuring the safety, security and effectiveness of the nation’s nuclear stockpile. Its arrival represents years of procurement, design, code development and installation, requiring the efforts of hundreds of computer scientists, developers and operations personnel working in close partnership with IBM, NVIDIA and Mellanox.
Siting of the Sierra Supercomputer Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-06-28 | Learn more about the architecture of Sierra and what it takes to site one of the world’s fastest supercomputers. Get a rare look at the infrastructure supporting Sierra and Livermore Computing’s largest machine room.LLNL-VIDEO-772126
How Diamonds Are Used for Nuclear Fusion Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-06-22 | Take a look inside the target capsules used at the National Ignition Facility, where nanoscopic diamond technology is making a huge difference in some of the world's most energetic fusion experiments. 💻 LLNL News: llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: instagram.com/livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: facebook.com/livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: twitter.com/Livermore_Lab 🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LivermoreLab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/. LLNL-VIDEO-834094#LLNL #FusionIgnition #Diamonds
Celebrating 30 years of the High Performance Storage System (HPSS) collaboration Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-06-08 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the rest of the Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories produce an astronomical amount of data every year. As the bits and bytes of data generated by high performance computing (HPC) machines climb to ever-increasing heights, the question remains: how to store (and manage) it all? This year marks the 30th anniversary of the High Performance Storage System (HPSS) collaboration, comprising five DOE HPC national laboratories: LLNL, Lawrence Berkeley, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Sandia, along with industry partner IBM. 💻 LLNL News: llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: instagram.com/livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: facebook.com/livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: twitter.com/Livermore_Lab 🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LivermoreLab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/.LLNL-VIDEO-835594#HighPerformanceStorageSystem #LLNL #LLNLcomputing
The OS-150 Robotics Laboratory Takes Flight Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-06-06 | The OS-150 Robotics Laboratory is Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s facility for testing autonomous drones, vehicles, and robots of the future. The Lab, informally known as the "drone pen," allows operators to pilot drones safely and build trust with their robotic teammates.Learn more: llnl.gov/news/new-open-air-facility-will-be-testing-ground-autonomous-drones-vehicles-and-robots💻 LLNL News: llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: instagram.com/livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: facebook.com/livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: twitter.com/Livermore_Lab 🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LivermoreLab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/.LLNL-VIDEO-82743#OS150RoboticsLaboratory #LLNL
DDST/PLS Colloquium: Topological Lasers and Berkeley Surface Emitting Lasers (BerkSELs) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-05-26 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s latest DDST Colloquium featured Dr. Boubacar Kanté presenting on “Topological Lasers and Berkeley Surface Emitting Lasers (BerkSELs).” Drawing on his interest in wave-matter interaction and nano-optics, Kanté discussed highlights of his current research and the physics behind his invention of the world’s first topological laser. A lively Q&A session followed his presentation with questions from the in-person and online audience, demonstrating the excitement surrounding Kanté’s achievements and the Laboratory’s storied history in laser research. For more information on how the Laboratory harnesses world-leading science and technology, visit st.llnl.gov/.💻 LLNL News: llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: instagram.com/livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: facebook.com/livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: twitter.com/Livermore_Lab 🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LivermoreLab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/.
New Neural Implants Allow Deeper Exploration of the Brain Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2022-05-25 | The next generation of neural implants will change the way we treat brain disorders, and they're being developed at Lawrence Livermore. In partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and other research institutions, engineers at LLNL are creating brain-based healthcare devices that can record more information than ever before. This data helps us understand how the brain works, what's going wrong when someone's ill, and how to treat them. Such devices can also deliver chemical or electrical stimulation to parts of the brain, unlocking new possibilities for therapeutics. 💻 LLNL News: llnl.gov/news 📲 Instagram: instagram.com/livermore_lab 🤳 Facebook: facebook.com/livermore.lab 🐤 Twitter: twitter.com/Livermore_Lab 🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LivermoreLab About LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to: 1) enhance the nation’s defense, 2) reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and 3) respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. Learn more about LLNL: llnl.gov/.LLNL-VIDEO-835195#NeuralImplants #LLNL #Brain
