Video: LLNL opens High Performance Computing Innovation Center for collaboration with industry
Livermore Valley Open Campus
With the support of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration and Office of Science, Sandia National Laboratories/California and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are working collaboratively to create an open, unclassified research and development space called the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC).
The motivation for the LVOC stems from current and future national security challenges that require increased coupling to the private sector to understand threats and deploy solutions in areas such as energy and environmental security, economic security, cyber security, high performance computing and non-proliferation.
As currently envisioned, the LVOC will consist of an approximately 110-acre parcel along the eastern edge of the Sandia and Livermore Laboratory sites bordering Greenville Road.
The LVOC will be modeled after research and development campuses found at major industrial research parks and other U.S. Department of Energy laboratories with campus-like security, a set of business and operating rules devised to enhance and accelerate international scientific collaboration and partnerships with U.S. government agencies, industry and academia.
The LVOC also could house amenities and features such as conference space, collaboration facilities and a visitor’s center to support educational and research activities.
- Enhance the two laboratories’ national security missions by substantially increasing engagement with the private sector and academic community.
- Stay at the forefront of the science, technology and engineering fields.
- Ensure a quality future workforce by expanding opportunities for open engagement of the broader scientific community.
Initial research areas for the LVOC:
- Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility (CRF) and Transportation Research
- High Energy Density Physics
- High Performance Computing
- Climate and Energy Research
- CyberSecurity Science
The architecture of the LVOC is planned in stages, including:
- Open access to Sandia's CRF
- Planning for an unclasssified computing center
The High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC)
HPCIC is a public/private partnership with a mission to boost American industrial competitiveness, scientific research, education and national security through broadening adoption and application of supercomputing technology. By providing facilities, secure supercomputer access and a collaboration platform supported by members of the computing ecosystem, the HPCIC fosters innovation through the use of scientific modeling, predictive simulation and advanced analytics running on the world's fastest, most efficiently operated, massively parallel computers.
Member projects focus on big, complex challenges and opportunities like smart grid, climate science, alternative energy sources, healthcare, manufacturing competitiveness, and biosciences, as well as cross-cutting technologies, such as virtual prototyping and testing, multi-science research, software application optimization, development tools and exascale computer architecture development. Individual companies can also access a full range of trusted national laboratory scientific, algorithmic and application software support options through the HPCIC.
The LVOC’s High Performance Computing Innovation Center is located in Livermore off Greenville Road.
- Map to the High Performance Computing Innovation Center
For more information about the LVOC, contact:
- Scott Wilson, LLNL community relations officer, 925-423-3125
- Sandia National Laboratories/California
i-GATE (Innovation for Green Advanced Transportation Excellence) is one of twelve state-designated Innovation Hubs, or i-Hubs. It is administered by the City of Livermore and governed by a board of directors. LLNL is a member of the i-GATE partnership. The state i-Hubs are intended to stimulate partnerships, economic development, and job creation around specific research clusters. For more information about i-GATE, see the Web.
The Tri-Valley is Emerging as a New Center for Innovation (Hacienda Network, February 2012)
Video: LLNL opens High Performance Computing Innovation Center for collaboration with industry (video, June 2011)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory opens High Performance Computing Innovation Center for collaboration with industry (LLNL news release, June 2011)
Livermore Valley Open Campus (handout in .pdf March 2011)
New campus set to transform two national laboratories (Science Technology Review, March 2011)
Koonce named principal lead for open campus (Lab News, May 2010)
Garamendi bill would advance ‘open campus’ (Lab News, May 2010)
NNSA approves Livermore Valley Open Campus (Lab News, August 2010)
NNSA approves Livermore Valley Open Campus concept Scientific collaboration key goal of more interactive approach (LLNL news release, August 2009)
