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Graphic of Earth.
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The American Geophysical Union showcases a paper by LLNL scientists and collaborators on global climate models.

Project DarkStar leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to optimize shaped charges—explosive devices used to manipulate metals.
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LLNL researchers couple computing capabilities and manufacturing methods to rapidly develop and experimentally validate modifications to a shaped charge.

Unveiled at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany, the June 2024 Top500 lists three systems with identical components — one computing rack each from El Capitan’s “Early Delivery System” (EDS), LLNL’s newest unclassified supercomputer RZAdams and its unclassified “sister” system Tuolumne. All three registered 19.65 petaFLOPs on the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark, ranking them among the world’s 50 fastest.
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Three new systems currently or soon-to-be sited at LLNL debuted on the latest Top500 list of most powerful supercomputers in the world.

Artwork illustrating a new study combining atomistic simulations, machine learning potential, and data-driven methods to study the chemical speciation of amorphous carbon nitride using X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectra.
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LLNL scientists develop a new approach that can rapidly predict the structure and chemical composition of heterogeneous materials.

Kyle Bushick is the recipient of the 2024 Frederick A. Howes Scholar award for his work in computational science.
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LLNL postdoc Kyle Bushick garners the 2024 Frederick A. Howes Scholar award for technical excellence, leadership and character in the field of computational science.  

In a groundbreaking development for addressing future viral pandemics, a multi-institutional team involving Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers has successfully combined an artificial intelligence-backed platform with supercomputing to redesign and restore the effectiveness of antibodies whose ability to fight viruses has been compromised by viral evolution. The work was published in the journal Nature.
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A multi-institutional team involving LLNL researchers successfully combines an artificial intelligence (AI)-backed platform with supercomputing to redesign and restore antibody effectiveness. 

LLNL postdoc Sam Hedges sits inside the high voltage test bed (referred to as LXTS) for nEXO experiments.
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LLNL postdoc Sam Hedges wins a 2024 Springer Thesis Award for his work in searching for the elusive neutrino.

Jennifer Pett-Ridge has been named a fellow of the Ecology Society of America.
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LLNL scientist and head of the Lab’s Carbon Initiative Jennifer Pett-Ridge has been selected as an ESA fellow for her work in soil ecology.

A 2D MARBL simulation of the N210808 “Burning Plasma” shot performed at the National Ignition Facility at the onset of ignition. This calculation consists of 19 million high-order quadrature points and ran on rzAdams (on AMD MI300A GPUs).
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Researchers at LLNL accelerate and add features to complex multi-physics simulations run on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), a development that could advance high performance computing and engineering.

Opportunistic pathogenic species, such as Acinetobacter, are prevalent in combat wound infections and commonly found on the gear of U.S. military service members.
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To support the early detection of potentially detrimental microbial factors, LLNL researchers have developed a targeted panel for the capture and sequencing of microbial genomic signatures.