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2024 Director's Science and Technology Service to the Enterprise Award Coin
// Director's Awards
Three individuals received the 2024 Director's Science and Technology Service to the Enterprise Award for their scientific and technical achievements and contributions to the broad mission of the global scientific enterprise.
2024 Director’s S&T Excellence in Publication Award Coin
// Director's Awards
Seventeen papers received the 2024 Director’s S&T Excellence in Publication Awards. This award rewards outstanding scientific and technical publications.
2024 Director's Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award logo.
// Director's Awards
Twenty-three LLNL researchers have been named Distinguished Members of Technical Staff (DMTS) for their extraordinary scientific and technical contributions, as acknowledged by their professional peers and the broader scientific community.
image of S&T awards coin
// Director's Awards
Five teams were awarded the 2024 Director's Science and Technology Award for significant advancements towards the Laboratory's mission.
Fast Cure silicone in direct-ink-write additive manufacturing can produce previously unattainable structures, such as tall, overhanging, or thin-walled structures. Such structures, featured on the October journal cover of Advanced Materials Technologies, are obtained thanks to the quick gelling process.
// S&T Highlights

LLNL researchers have developed a new method to 3D print sturdy silicone structures that are bigger, taller, thinner and more porous than ever before. 

LLNL staff scientist Gauthier Deblonde has been selected as a “Rising Star” by the American Chemical Society.
// Recognition

LLNL staff scientist Gauthier Deblonde has been named a 2024 “Rising Star“ by the American Chemical Society for his work in environmental science.

Researchers used previously obtained x-ray diffraction data to determine the in-situ ablation depth of an aluminum sample.
// S&T Highlights

LLNL researchers an collaborators conduct a study that represents the first example of using X-ray diffraction to make direct time-resolved measurements of an aluminum sample’s ablation depth. 

Running on the second-generation Cerebras WSE-2 — a cutting-edge processor boasting 850,000 cores — the team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories and Cerebras Systems demonstrated the chip can perform complex simulations involving hundreds of thousands of atoms at speeds previously thought unattainable. The work is a finalist for the 2024 Association for Computing Machinery Gordon Bell Prize. the highest honor in supercomputing.
// S&T Highlights

A team of National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Tri-Lab researchers unveil a revolutionary approach to molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE).

With a peak performance of 2.79 exaFLOPS, El Capitan comprises more than 11,000 compute nodes and provides the National Nuclear Security Administration with a flagship machine over 20 times more capable than its previous fastest supercomputer, Sierra.
// S&T Highlights

LLNL and collaborators have officially unveiled El Capitan as the world's most powerful supercomputer and first exascale system dedicated to national security.

BioID device instrument and consumables. An operating instrument is shown with a blue screen (left), open instrument for cartridge loading (middle) and single-use assay cartridge and sample loading syringe (right). The technology uses isothermal amplification to detect pathogen nucleic acid.
// S&T Highlights

LLNL and BioVind, LLC attain exclusive licensing of LLNL pathogen diagnostics technology focused on oil and gas applications.