LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: On the newest episode of the Big Ideas Lab podcast, listeners will go behind the scenes of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) latest groundbreaking achievement: El Capitan, the world's most powerful supercomputer. Listen on Apple or Spotify. Built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) with AMD's new Instinct MI300A Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), El C  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release: Following an extensive nationwide search, David Teter has been selected as the Idaho National Laboratory's next deputy laboratory director for management and operations and chief operating officer. Teter will begin his new role in the spring of 2025. He succeeds Juan Alvarez, who left INL in October to become executive vice president of laboratory operations for Battelle M  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release: By Paul Menser & Corinne Dionisio It's a long way from the Donbas region of Ukraine to Idaho, but Ukrainian officials recently made the trip to learn about collecting evidence after a nuclear attack. Ten soldiers from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 10 members from the Security Services of Ukraine spent a week at Idaho National Laboratory learning and practicing debris c  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Brain-inspired algorithm on neuromorphic hardware reduces cost of learning * * * Recent generations of machine learning, the methodology supporting artificial intelligence, have drawn inspiration from natural neural systems. These algorithmic approaches that mirror the complex pathways of human brains are often paired with integrated circuits to provide fast processing. Now  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on Nov. 20, 2024: * * * The Testing Risks of AI for National Security (TRAINS) Taskforce brings together experts from Commerce, Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, NSA, and NIH to address national security concerns and strengthen American leadership in AI innovation * * * Today, the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute at the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NI  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in collaboration with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and AMD, have officially unveiled El Capitan as the world's most powerful supercomputer and first exascale system dedicated to national security. Verified at 1.742 exaFLOPs (1.742 quintillion calculations per sec  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Nov. 19 -- The Los Alamos Study Group issued the following news release: On November 13, the Los Alamos Study Group organized an informative panel discussion on plutonium warhead core ("pit") production at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Our panelists were: * Hon. Jill Hruby, Undersecretary of Energy for Nuclear Security and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); * Allison Bawden, Director, Natural Resources and Environment   more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 21 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: In a groundbreaking development for computational science, a team of National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Tri-Lab researchers has unveiled a revolutionary approach to molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE), the world's largest computer chip. Running on the second-generation Cerebras WSE-2 -- a cutting-edge  more