Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Laboratory Overview PSAAP III Kickoff Meeting Bruce Hendrickson Associate Director for Computing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory August 18, 2020
LLNL-PRES-000000 This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC LLNL is one of 17 Department of Energy national laboratories
LLNL-PRES-761938 1 The Department of Energy national laboratories are located across the nation
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
National Energy Technology Laboratory Idaho National Brookhaven Laboratory Fermi National National Laboratory Accelerator Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Energy Technology Princeton Plasma National Laboratory Ames Argonne National Laboratory Physics Laboratory Laboratory Laboratory Lawrence Livermore SLAC National National Laboratory Accelerator Sandia National National Renewable Thomas Jefferson Laboratory Laboratories Energy Laboratory National Accelerator Facility Los Alamos National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sandia National Laboratories Savannah River National Laboratory
LLNL-PRES-761938 2 § Established in 1952
§ ~ 7,400 LLNS employees
§ 1 square mile and 517 facilities, ~40 miles from San Francisco Experimental Test Site § Annual budget: ~ $2.3B (11 miles2 near Tracy, CA)
§ Operated by LLNS, LLC (University of California and Bechtel, BWXT, Amentum)
LLNL-PRES-761938 3 Our heritage: team science, audacious ideas, and pushing the extremes
E.O. Lawrence Herbert F. York University of California LLNL’s first director Team science Pushing extremes
“Our working philosophy … called for always pushing at the technological extremes. We did not wait for higher Edward Teller government or military LLNL’s second director authorities.” Audacious ideas Making Weapons, Talking Peace: A Physicist’s Odyssey from Hiroshima to Geneva Herbert F. York
LLNL-PRES-761938 4 Our Mission: to strengthen national security through world-class science, technology, and engineering
Stockpile All-WMD Threat Multi-Domain Energy Security & Stewardship Reduction Deterrence Climate Resilience
Science Engineering Computing
LLNL-PRES-761938 5 LLNL’s ~$2.3B budget reflects our national security focus
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LLNL-PRES-761938 6 LLNL has a talented and multidisciplinary technical workforce
ST&E Workforce by Highest Degree Level
1,764
1,252
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(Dec 5, 2019) Associates Bachelors Masters Ph.D.
LLNL-PRES-761938 7 Our work diminishes the likelihood and impact of war, terrorism, and disasters through the innovative application of cutting-edge S&T
Stockpile All-WMD Threat Multi-Domain Energy Security and Stewardship Reduction Deterrence Climate Resilience
§ Annual Assessment § Nuclear counter § Strategic defense § Diverse domestic proliferation and energy resources § Life extensions counterterrorism § Conventional strike § Enhancing reliable § Improved predictive § Chem/biosecurity § Space security delivery capability § Forensic science § Cybersecurity § Climate impact § Enterprise integration § All-source intelligence assessment and responsiveness
LLNL-PRES-761938 8 Science-based stockpile stewardship is rooted in challenging our predictions with experiments High-performance computing, Experimental challenge modeling, and simulation and validation
Sierra National Ignition Facility #3 on 95 petaflops 125 petaflops 192 500 terawatts 2.15 MJ Top 500 List* sustained peak laser beams power output to target
9 LLNL has long been at the forefront 2023
of enabling HPC hardware and 2010s
Projected to be the software 2000s world’s most powerful supercomputer Sequoia 1990s
Blue Gene 1980s ASCI Blue-Pacific
World’s most detailed 1970s simulation of the human heart in action Breakthrough visualizations of 1960s Helping the medical mixing fluids community plan CDC 7600 radiation treatment 1953 CRAY 1 Sierra
CDC 3600 Unprecedented Global climate dislocation dynamics modeling simulations Pioneering Ozone mixing models simulations of 3D 98-billion-cell UNIVAC 1 Dynamics in three hydrodynamic instability particle tracking dimensions simulation (ICF-inspired) LLNL continues to define the “bleeding edge” of high-performance computing
Top Computing Institutions st (past 25 years) El Capitan § NNSA’s 1 exascale Norm- supercomputer 1600 HPL § Silicon based Sierra § 1.5 exaflops (peak) 1200 § On the path to exascale Courtesy of Erich § Delivery late 2022 Strohmaier (LBL) SC’18 § First NNSA GPU platform § 125 petaflops (peak) 800 § On-line since 2018 DOE system Beyond Moore’s Law
Neuromorphic 400
Quantum LLNL ORNL LANL SNL NSCC RIKEN USA USA USA USA CHN JPN
11 The National Ignition Facility is the largest and most energetic laser facility ever built
Exploring the extremes of energy, temperature, and pressure that occur in stars, supernovae, and nuclear explosions
LLNL-PRES-761938 12 High-Energy-Density Science Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Bioscience and Bioengineering
Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic S&T Laser and Optical S&T Earth and Atmospheric Science
High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Core Competencies Core
LLNL-PRES-761938 13 National Ignition Facility Livermore Computing Complex B453
Site 300 Jupiter Laser Facility
Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory High Explosives Applications Facility Unique R&D Facilities Unique
LLNL-PRES-761938 14 The Laboratory provides critical reach-back capabilities to the nation and beyond
National Atmospheric Forensic Counterproliferation Biodefense Release Advisory Center Science Center Analysis & Planning System Knowledge Center BKC
Present OPCW– SupportPresent 2006- 2013 Support of Analyses of DPRK Tests
LLNL-PRES-761938 15 Beyond today’s challenges Anticipating unexpected and potentially disruptive developments
Accelerated Materials and Manufacturing Cognitive Simulation Working towards Developing machine accelerated qualification learning solutions that of components and novel augment large-scale materials, and an simulation and integrated materials and experiments to improve manufacturing strategy prediction
Engineering the Predictive Biology Space Science and Security Carbon Economy
Developing new Applying expertise in intel Anticipating the threat approaches to analysis, modeling and and preparing for the biosecurity simulation, and design and next major phase of countermeasures fabrication for advantages climate mitigation through systems biology in contested space technology
LLNL-PRES-761938 16 LLNL technologies: a multi-billion-dollar impact on the economy Over $1.4B of products with “LLNL Inside” were sold in the past 5 years
Higher fuel efficiency Advanced medical devices
Two public companies started by LLNL scientists have a total $21B Better disease diagnosis Improved airplane safety market value of over
LLNL-PRES-761938 17 Frontier research underlies our ability to deliver cutting-edge solutions
The Dubna-LLNL collaboration has discovered 6 new elements since 1989
LLNL-PRES-761938 18 LLNL embraces its role in fostering education in and giving to the local community
HOMECAMPAIGN has raised nearly $56 million* since its inception in STEM Day at the Lab 1974
19 LLNL-PRES-761938 Science and Technology on a Mission
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