Customer
Helping Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Developers Scale Applications
As a national security laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is responsible for ensuring that the nation’s nuclear weapons remain safe, secure and reliable by applying the latest advances in science and engineering. With its special capabilities, the laboratory also meets other pressing national and international security needs, such as countering the threat of nuclear proliferation and terrorism, strengthening homeland security, and enhancing military effectiveness.
Given the critical role that LLNL plays in national security, it is no surprise that they utilize the world’s fastest supercomputers, the IBM Blue Gene series, to develop their mission-critical applications.
At LLNL, Blue Gene/L is optimized to run molecular dynamics applications at extreme speeds to address materials aging issues confronting the Stockpile Stewardship Program. Blue Gene/L is also used to explore the potential of system-on-a-chip technologies to achieve extreme speed while minimizing floor space and electrical power consumption.
Government, Open Source Management
