{"id":166495,"date":"2023-06-27T06:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T11:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/high-performance-computing-ai-and-cognitive-simulation-helped-llnl-conquer-fusion-ignition"},"modified":"2023-06-27T06:24:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T11:24:19","slug":"high-performance-computing-ai-and-cognitive-simulation-helped-llnl-conquer-fusion-ignition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/high-performance-computing-ai-and-cognitive-simulation-helped-llnl-conquer-fusion-ignition","title":{"rendered":"High-performance computing, AI and cognitive simulation helped LLNL conquer fusion ignition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kf70BblEX5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em> Part 10 a series of articles describing the elements of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\u2019s fusion breakthrough.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For hundreds of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists on the design, experimental, and modeling and simulation teams behind inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the results of the now-famous Dec. 5, 2022, ignition shot didn\u2019t come as a complete surprise.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ccrystal ball\u201d that gave them increased pre-shot confidence in a breakthrough involved a combination of detailed high-performance computing (HPC) design and a suite of methods combining physics-based simulation with machine learning. LLNL calls this \u201ccognitive simulation,\u201d or CogSim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 10 a series of articles describing the elements of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\u2019s fusion breakthrough. For hundreds of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists on the design, experimental, and modeling and simulation teams behind inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the results of the now-famous Dec. 5, 2022, ignition [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}