Computing; Computing Report, LLNL-TR-787575

Published by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 2019

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Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 8.5 inches. 112 pages. Illustrations (color). Appendices (including publications). Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response to the detonation of the first atomic bomb by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It later became autonomous in 1971 and was designated a national laboratory in 1981. A federally funded research and development center, Lawrence Livermore Lab is primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and it is managed privately and operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (a partnership of the University of California), Bechtel, BWX Technologies, AECOM, and Battelle Memorial Institute in affiliation with the Texas A&M University System. In 2012, the laboratory had the synthetic chemical element livermorium (element 116) named after it. This report provides 'a sampling' of some of the exciting work going on in the Computing Directorate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Throughout its history, LLNL has been a leader in computers and scientific computing. Even before the Livermore Lab opened its doors, E.O. Lawrence and Edward Teller recognized the importance of computing and the potential of computational simulation. Their purchase of one of the first UNIVAC computers set the precedent for LLNL's history of acquiring and exploiting the fastest and most capable supercomputers in the world. A succession of increasingly powerful and fast computers have been used at the Lab over the years. LLNL researchers use supercomputers to answer questions about subjects such as materials science simulations, global warming, and reactions to natural disasters. LLNL has a long history of developing computing software and systems. Initially, there was no commercially available software, and computer manufacturers considered it the customer's responsibility to develop their own. Users of the early computers had to write not only the codes to solve their technical problems, but also the routines to run the machines themselves. Today, LLNL computer scientists focus on creating the highly complex physics models, visualization codes, and other unique applications tailored to specific research requirements. A great deal of software also has been written by LLNL personnel to optimize the operation and management of the computer systems, including operating systems such as TOSS, operating system extensions such as CHAOS (Linux Clustering), and resource management packages such as SLURM.[44] LLNL also initiated and continues leading the development of ZFS on Linux, the official port of ZFS to the Linux operating system.

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Title
Computing; Computing Report, LLNL-TR-787575
Author
Gallagher, Brian (Scientific Editor), and Le Gendre, Matthew (Scientific Editor)
Publisher
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Publication year
2019
Condition
Very good
Binding
Wraps
Illustrator
Ian Fabre (Photographer) and Randy Wong (Photograp
Edition
Presumed First Edition, First printing.

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