Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore Labs
LLNL

   <body> (LLNL) A research organaisatin operated by the
   {University of California} under a contract with the US
   Department of Energy.  LLNL was founded on 2 September 1952 at
   the site of an old World War II naval air station.

   The Lab employs researchers from many scientific and
   engineering disciplines.  Some of its departments are the
   National Ignition Facility, the Human Genome Center, the ASCI
   Tera-Scale Computing partnership, the Computer Security
   Technology Center, and the Site 300 Experimental Test
   Facility.  Other research areas are Astronomy and
   Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Automation and Robotics,
   Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Energy Research, Engineering,
   Environmental Science, Fusion, Geology and Geophysics, Health,
   Lasers and Optics, Materials Science, National Security,
   Physics, Sensors and Instrumentation, Space Science.

   LLNL also works with industry in research and licensing
   projects.  At the end of fiscal year 1995, the lab had signed
   agreements for 193 cost-shared research projects involving 201
   companies and worth nearly $600m.

   (http://llnl.gov/).

   Address: Fremont, California, USA.

   (1996-10-30)