Los Alamos National Laboratory Co-Design Summer School
The LANL Co-Design Summer School (http://codesign.lanl.gov) was established to train the next generation of computational scientists to work effectively on interdisciplinary teams, integrating domain science, applied mathematics, and computer science to address the grand challenges of modern computation.
Since its launch in 2011, CDSS has brought together top graduate students from across the world to collaborate on a focused computational science project. Participants gain hands-on experience with high-performance computing architectures, large-scale multiphysics applications, and co-design principles that bridge software, algorithms, and hardware.
2026 project focus
The CDSS 2026 project will continue advancing HARD, a modern radiation-hydrodynamics application framework developed at LANL, to High Explosive (HE) models and other extreme-scale simulations.
Participants will work collaboratively to:
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Enhance HARD for multi-physics coupling, scalability, and performance portability on next-generation HPC systems
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Integrate and optimize algorithms for HE modeling and multimaterial radiation-hydrodynamics using advanced task-based parallelism
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Explore new techniques in performance modeling and numerical stability within the co-design workflow
Teams will consist of students from complementary disciplines, each contributing their expertise to achieve a unified scientific and computational objective.
Ideal candidates
We are particularly interested in students near the end of their master's degree program or Ph.D. students.
Outstanding candidates will have strengths in the following areas:
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Computer scientists: High-performance computing, MPI, GPU programming, benchmarking, optimization, performance analysis
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Applied mathematicians: Numerical methods, time integration for PDEs, hybrid and implicit schemes, solver development
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Physicists: Multimaterial hydrodynamics, radiation transport, combustion, detonation, or reactive flow models with interest in computational implementation
Additional information
Further details, including application instructions, can be found at https://codesign.lanl.gov. Applications are open until early January 2026.
Please feel free to reach out to the Co-Design Summer School team with any questions, or if you’d like to discuss collaboration or student referrals.
Attribution: This content was provided by a Co-Design Summer School Lead and edited by staff at the CHPC to fit this format.