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City Planner Resource (iCPR) animation
// S&T Highlights
A team of Laboratory engineers, computer scientists, and health physicists have developed a planning resource that can assist local governments in determining the best actions to take following the detonation of an improvised nuclear device.
Unify file system diagram
// S&T Highlights
Livermore develops software to reduce performance drag caused by input/output (I/O) workloads.
Nuclear chemist Dawn Shaughnessy
// Press
Dawn Shaughnessy's team is partially responsible for adding six new elements to the periodic table’s ranks.
Scientists with awards
// Recognition
The high performance computing publication HPCwire gave Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge national laboratories their Editors’ Choice and Readers’ Choice Awards for the Top Supercomputing Achievement of 2018.
A range of Discovery Science Program ideas
// S&T Highlights
The Discovery Science Program has spun off a wealth of benefits to the world’s largest and highest-energy laser system.
A cross-sectional look at a NIF fuel capsule
// S&T Highlights
LLNL target fabrication scientists have found a way to make an already hair-thin layer of frozen inertial confinement fusion fuel even slimmer.
Daniel Clark
// Recognition
Livermore's Daniel Clark has been named the winner of the 2018 Ronald C. Davidson Award for Plasma Physics.
The Sierra supercomputer
// S&T Highlights
Sierra, Livermore’s newest supercomputer, rose to second place on the list of the world’s fastest computing systems, the TOP500 List.
The Corona high-performance computing cluster
// S&T Highlights
Livermore will accept delivery of Corona, a new unclassified high-performance computing cluster.
Power lines
// S&T Highlights
Livermore scientists are working to determine the risk to the grid from a cyberattack.