(AGENPARL) – ven 17 novembre 2023 A weekly compendium of media reports on science and technology achievements
at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Though the Laboratory reviews
items for overall accuracy, the reporting organizations are responsible for
the content in the links below.
….. LLNL Report, Nov. 17, 2023
The debut of NNSA’s  Commodity Technology Systems-2 (CTS-2) computing
clusters Dane (left) and Bengal (right) on the Top500 List of the world’s
most powerful supercomputers brings the total of Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory-sited systems on the list to 11, the most of any supercomputing
center in the world. Photos by Garry McLeod.
… Setting a new benchmark

LLNL and Sandia Set New Benchmarks in Supercomputing with NNSA’s Latest Clusters

Three of the newest National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) commodity
computing clusters recently deployed at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory (LLNL) and Sandia National Laboratories are among the most
powerful supercomputing systems in the world, Top500 organizers announced
Monday.
Funded under the second Commodity Technology Systems contract by NNSA’s
Advanced Simulation and Computing program, the machines sited at LLNL —
named Dane and Bengal — began performing key modeling and simulation
functions for the NNSA’s stockpile stewardship mission in mid-2023. 
The debut of Dane, a 7.041 petaFLOP (slightly more than 7 quadrillion
calculations per second) cluster at No. 108 and the 6.134 petaFLOP Bengal at
No. 129, brings the total of LLNL-sited systems on the Top500 List to 11, the
most of any supercomputing center in the world.
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LLNL and Sandia Set New Benchmarks in Supercomputing with NNSA’s Latest Clusters

With its advanced computing and graphics processing units (CPUs/GPUs)
developed by AMD, El Capitan’s peak performance is expected to exceed 2
exaFLOPS, which would make it the fastest supercomputer in the world when it
is deployed in 2023. Illustration courtesy of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
… El Capitan on its way to the top
The Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, powered by AMD
EPYC processors and Instinct accelerators, remains the fastest computer in
the world — for the fourth list in a row. Providing a blend of the best
performance and leadership energy efficiency, Frontier continues to drive
impactful science through its first full year of user operations. The latest
scientific projects on Frontier include new research on power grid
optimization, new designs on airplane engines for better efficiency and
capabilities as well as two out of six finalists for the Gordon Bell award.
The second exascale-class supercomputer to be powered by AMD, El Capitan, has
started its installation process at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
The system will be powered by the forthcoming AMD Instinct MI300A APU, which
is the first data center APU to combine CPU and GPU cores and high-bandwidth
memory, all in a single package. This innovative design is anticipated to
provide dramatic increases in both energy efficiency and performance. When it
comes online, El Capitan is expected to exceed two exaflops of double
precision performance, becoming the second AMD powered supercomputer to
surpass the exaflop barrier. You can see more about El Capitan at this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPRjIlgVwlg from Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory.
“We are making excellent progress on the installation of El Capitan, which
will clearly be one of the world’s best computing systems,” said Bronis R.
de Supinski, the chief technology officer for Livermore Computing at Lawrence
Livermore. “This enormous undertaking of multiple partners is creating a
system that will enable our scientists to achieve results which they
previously could only dream about. El Capitan will offer incredible
programmability, performance and energy efficiency through its use of the AMD
Instinct MI300A APUs, virtually eliminating the challenges of repeatedly
moving data between CPUs and GPUs, thus helping us achieve our mission.”
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A artist’s concept illustration of the Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability,
or DARC. Image courtesy of Northrop Grumman.
… It’s out of this world

Startups, universities selected for accelerator focused on space domain awareness

The Space Force’s Space Systems Command selected several startups and
universities to participate in a new accelerator program focused on enhancing
space domain awareness — or the ability to detect, characterize and
understand activity in space.
The startups include True Anomaly, Katalyst Space Technologies, HEO,
DigitalArsenal.io and Intrack Radar Technologies. From academia, the Space
Force selected the Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association, the University
of Colorado Boulder, and the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Other
organizations supporting the project are Lockheed Martin, MITRE and Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory. 
The program aims to leverage emerging commercial capabilities to help the
Space Force better monitor objects and events in orbit. Space is becoming
increasingly congested and contested. Space domain awareness is a complex
problem and industry needs to help solve it.
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Startups, universities selected for accelerator focused on space domain awareness

During the Data Days’ Data Leadership Panel, (pictured l-r) Department of
Energy Chief Data Officer Rob King, Sandia National Laboratories Chief Data
Officer Tom Trodden, National Nuclear Security Administration Office of the
Chief Information Officer Data Program Lead Erica Vosseller, Nevada National
Nuclear Sites Data Lead Krams Ramasubramanian and Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory Data Architect Larry Seid discussed “establishing a data
culture.” Photo by Blaise Douros/LLNL.
… Data and data and more data

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 (DOE) national laboratories visited Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory recently 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 Nonproliferation and
hosted annually by LLNL, featured more than two dozen speakers from across
the DOE/NNSA complex. More than 200 attendees met to explore wide-ranging
topics in the data sphere, including common challenges the national labs face
in operating in a secure environment and maintaining an ever-increasing
amount of data generated in the age of artificial intelligence, machine
learning and other advanced high performance computing technologies.
Common threads throughout the workshop were the importance of building a
“data community” across DOE, the need for a shared language around data
and the value of national lab personnel who are working on data issues.
LLNL Geophysics Data Specialist Rebecca Rodd, a member of the organizing
committee and host for the workshop, said she hoped D3 — held in-person for
the first time since 2019 — brought the DOE data management community
together to advance solutions in a fast-changing landscape.
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Data Days Brings Department of Energy Labs Together for Discussions on Data Management and More

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The /LLNL Report/ will take a break for the Thanksgiving holiday. It will
return Dec. 1.
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