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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We are truly honored to receive 2026 Director’s Science and Technology Award for MFEM at LLNL 🎉 Working with this wonderful team has been an absolute highlight of my career 🙏 Thank you to all developers, collaborators and application teams that helped make MFEM what it is today! 🚀 #TeamMFEM #LLNL

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be next Tuesday (Sep 15), at 9:00am PDT 🌟 Dr. Ben Southworth from @LosAlamosNatLab will present: "BRoken-Space Additive Schwarz (BRAS) for Mass Matrix Preconditioning" 👉 Sign up at mfem.org/seminar

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Some stats for last week's 𝗺𝗳𝗲𝗺-𝟰.𝟭𝟬 release: ‣ months in development = 9 ‣ number of contributors = 48 ‣ new lines of code = 47,652 ‣ PRs merged = 190 ‣ number of commits = 2,529 ‣ issues closed = 59 ‣ 100% @opensource 🌟 Star + Download: github.com/mfem/mfem

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🌟 MFEM 4.10 is out! ✓ expanded GPU PA support, including triangles/tets ✓ nonuniform anisotropic quad/hex refinement ✓ cuDSS + distributed Ginkgo solvers ✓ positive-weight simplex quadratures ✓ GridFunction extrema estimates ✓ 7 new examples + electrostatic PIC miniapp ✓ much more! Visit mfem.org

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🗓️ Registration deadline for the 2026 MFEM Community Workshop is only 4 weeks away! 👉 Sign up by Sep 11th: forms.gle/5sqBL3p7ReDT... 🧑‍🏫 We welcome talks from the community 🖼 Visualization contest winners get an MFEM t-shirt 🧑‍🎓 Students register at 50% off + present in dedicated session

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MFEM Community Workshop 2026

September 22-25, 2026, Georgia Tech + Virtual https://mfem.org/workshop As you make travel plans, please note that the first day of the workshop (September 22) will be reserved for a hands-on MFEM tu...

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

📢 Call for the 2026 MFEM Visualization Contest! Part of the MFEM workshop mfem.org/workshop, Sep 21-25 at Georgia Tech 🤝 Submit for a chance to win a t-shirt 👕 + eternal glory in the MFEM Gallery 🖼️ mfem.org/gallery 👉 Submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be tomorrow, June 9, 9:00-10:30am PST! 🌟 Dr. Xevi Roca from @bsc-cns.bsky.social will present: "Enabling high-fidelity aeronautic simulations with high-order methods: geometry, numerics, and physics" 👉 Sign up + Learn more at mfem.org/seminar

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🎉 The MFEM community is gathering for its 2026 workshop on Sep 22-25! 👉 Join us in Atlanta (or virtually) if you are interested in #HPC finite elements: ✓ Sign up at mfem.org/workshop ✓ Submit research/student talks ✓ Join the visualization contest #MFEM26

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be next Tuesday, May 5, 9:00-10:30am PST. 🌟 Dr. Brendan Keith from @brown.edu will present: "Proximal Galerkin: A Unified Framework for Variational Problems with Inequality Constraints". 👉 Sign up + Learn more at mfem.org/seminar. #FEM@LLNL

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Tuesday (Apr 21), 9:00-10:30am PST 🌟 Dr. Jed Brown from @colorado.edu will present: "Performance-portable multiscale mechanics with libCEED" 👉 Sign up + Learn more at mfem.org/seminar #FEM @jedbrown.org

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar will be on Tuesday, March 10, 9-10:30am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Ido Akkerman from Delft university of Technology will present: "NURBS-Based Isogeometric Analysis: Past, Present, and Future". 👉 Sign up and Learn more at: mfem.org/seminar.

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

🙌 Our FEM@LLNL seminar series just hit 50 talks. 🙏 Huge thanks to all our speakers and attendees for making the series a success! 👉 If you are interested in finite elements, PDEs, solvers, or HPC, check out the talk recordings: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #FEM #HPC #OpenSource

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

🌟 GLVis 4.5 released with many new features: ✓ complex data visualization ✓ color palettes enhancements ✓ visualization of finite element DOF locations ✓ new headless mode based on EGL/CGL ✓ code refactoring and glvis-js improvements Learn more at glvis.org Try the web version glvis.org/live

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

📅 The 50th (!) 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar will be on Tuesday, Feb 10, 9-10:30am PDT 🌟 David Moxey and Edward Erasmie-Jones from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will present: "NektarIR: A Domain-Specific Compiler for High-Order Finite Element Operations on Heterogeneous Hardware" 👉 See mfem.org/seminar

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

📅 The next 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar will be on Monday, Feb 2, 9:00-10:30am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Andrea Beck from @unistuttgart.bsky.social will present: "Efficient solution strategies for multiscale flow problems: combining adaptive high order discretizations, models and data". 👉 Learn more at mfem.org/seminar.

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be next Tuesday (Jan 20), 9:30-11:00am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Jay Gopalakrishnan from @Portland_State will present: "Matrix-valued finite elements". 👉 Sign up + Learn more at: mfem.org/seminar.

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Some stats for last week's 𝗺𝗳𝗲𝗺-𝟰.𝟵 release: ‣ months in development = 8 ‣ number of contributors = 38 ‣ new lines of code = 55,423 ‣ PRs merged = 247 ‣ number of commits = 2456 ‣ issues closed = 131 ‣ 100% @opensource 🌟 Star + Download: github.com/mfem/mfem

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

🌟 MFEM 4.9 released with many new features: ✓ ∂FEM interface for differentiable simulations ✓ initial support for particle methods ✓ AMGF solver + miniapp for contact problems ✓ improved GPU kernels, TMOP, NURBS, AMR ✓ 10 new examples and miniapps ✓ switch to C++17 ✓ and much more! Visit mfem.org

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CRESCENT @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Congratulations to Team Cascadia (featuring CRESCENT-affiliated Dr. Alice-Agnes Gabriel) who've been awarded the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize in high-performance computing for their billion-parameter Cascadia Subduction Zone tsunami model using the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan!

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San Diego Live Data @619sdld.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Scripps researcher wins Gordon Bell Prize for real-time tsunami forecasting Alice Gabriel from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography won the 2025 Gordon Bell Prize for her team's real-time tsunami forecasting system. Using advanced algorith…

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Scripps researcher wins Gordon Bell Prize for real-time tsunami forecasting

A UC San Diego seismologist has won an award often called the "Nobel Prize of supercomputing" for developing a tsunami forecasting system.

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

It was an unbelievable honor to win the 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize with #TeamCascadia last week! 🏆 This is the culmination of many years of work by the #MFEM team and just one example of the power that GPU-accelerated high-order finite elements can bring to #HPC applications 🙌

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

🏅This Scripps Oceanography seismologist & a team of scientists from @utaustin.bsky.social & the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory just won the Nobel Prize of supercomputing! 💻⚡ Congrats to @inseismoland.bsky.social, who earned the @acm.org Gordon Bell Prize! 🧵⬇️

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Dr. Alice-Agnes Gabriel @inseismoland.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Reader’s Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in Physical Sciences - Thank you! And a huge thank you to the interdisciplinary team making all of this possible: Stefan Henneking, Sreeram Venkat, Veselin Dobrev, John Camier, Tzanio Kolev, Milinda Fernando, and Omar Ghattas. @scrippsocean.bsky.social

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Dr. Alice-Agnes Gabriel @inseismoland.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It still feels so unreal! Yesterday, we were awarded the "Nobel Prize" of Supercomputing, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize at #SC25 for our paper “Real-Time Bayesian Inference at Extreme Scale: A Digital Twin for Tsunami Early Warning Applied to the Cascadia Subduction Zone”: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 20/11/2025

🚨 An eight-member U.S. team has won the 2025 Gordon Bell Prize for “Real-Time Bayesian Inference at Extreme Scale: A Digital Twin for Tsunami Early Warning Applied to the Cascadia Subduction Zone.” Congrats to all the innovators pushing HPC forward! buff.ly/YBRsfnY

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Texas Advanced Computing Center at UT Austin @taccutexas.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Congratulations to the 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize winners for their research on a digital twin for real-time tsunami early warning! The work used supercomputing resources including El Capitan at LLNL and Frontera at TACC. The prize was awarded at #SC25 in St. Louis. Learn more: bit.ly/3Kd7gsw

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Dr. Alice-Agnes Gabriel @inseismoland.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Thank you to the HPCwire readers for the “Best Use of HPC in Physical Sciences” award!

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Dr. Alice-Agnes Gabriel @inseismoland.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

A great start to #SC25, our team received the 2025 Hyperion Research #HPC Innovation Excellence Award for advancing real-time tsunami early warning on the world’s fastest supercomputers.

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Dr. Alice-Agnes Gabriel @inseismoland.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Heading to #SC25 where our “Team Cascadia” presents the digital-twin #HPC framework integrating Bayesian inference at extreme scale towards real-time, physics-based tsunami early warning that earned us a place among this year’s ACM Gordon Bell Prize finalists. All presentations:

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Join #TeamCascadia at #SC25 to learn more about the collaboration between @utaustin.bsky.social, @ucsandiego.bsky.social and the 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 team at LLNL on tsunami modeling 🌊 on the world's largest HPC supercomputers.

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Make time at #SC25 to visit the #ArtOfHPC exhibition - beauty and science all in one place - well worth a few minutes of your time #HPC #Supercomputing #HPCignites All these and much more …

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

All slides and video recordings from the 2025 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 community workshop are now available at: 👉 mfem.org/workshop You can rewatch the full workshop at this playlist: 📺 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... For more MFEM-related videos, see: 🌟 mfem.org/videos/ #MFEM25 #FEM #HPC #OpenSource

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Tuesday, Nov 18th, 9:00-10:30am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Robert Falgout from @Livermore_Lab will present: "New advances in hypre 3.0 for mixed precision and semi-structured problems". 👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar.

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Tuesday, Nov 4th, 9:00-10:30am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Bill Henshaw @rpi will present: "An O(N) Helmholtz Solver by time-filtering the Wave Equation". 👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar.

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

📆 Join us at WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 in the minisymposium on "Open-Source Software in Mechanics". wccm-eccomas2026.org/event/area/7... 🌟 We welcome contributions from any #OpenSource project in the area of computational mechanics. Hope to see you in Munich!

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🌟 We have a new post-doc opening on the 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 team at @Livermore_Lab. 🚀 Join us to work on 💠 differentiable finite element simulations 💠 for challenging multiphysics applications 💠 targeting the world's largest HPC GPU systems Apply at: us.smrtr.io/4bmzz

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🏆 Announcing the winners of the 2025 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 Visualization Contest! 📺 Best simulation video: 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗮 for "Real-time digital twin for tsunami early warning applied to the Cascadia subduction zone." 👉 More details and images at mfem.org/gallery

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

🏆 Announcing the winners of the 2025 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 Visualization Contest! 🖼️ Best simulation image: 𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗼 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶 for "Electric field during RF ablation procedure on idealized intracardiac geometry." 👉 More details and images at mfem.org/gallery

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

📅 We are resuming our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series with a talk on Tuesday, Sep 30, 9:00-10:30am PDT 🌟 Dr. Florian Schäfer from @nyucourant.bsky.social will present: "Toward Information Geometric Mechanics" 👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Thank you to all participants for the fun and inspiring 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 workshop this week! 🙏 It was really exciting to see all the amazing things that the community is building 🚀 Congrats 🎉 to the visualization contest winners! MFEM is awesome because of you 🔥

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

⏳The 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 community workshop registration closes this week! We welcome presentations 🧑‍🏫, demos🔮 and visualization contest 🖼 entries from the community. Student travel support 🧑‍🎓 is still available! Please register/apply by Wednesday, August 27th at: 👉 mfem.org/workshop

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The MES Times @themestimes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Scientists at LLNL have developed a real-time tsunami forecasting system powered by the El Capitan supercomputer, capable of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second. #Tsunami #AI #Supercomputer #ElCapitan #DisasterPreparedness #EarlyWarning #Earthquake

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

📆 Registration deadline for the 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 community workshop is less than a month away! 👉 Learn more at mfem.org/workshop 🧑‍🏫 We welcome presentations + demos from the community 🖼 Winners of the visualization contest get an MFEM t-shirt 🧑‍🎓 Student support is available #MFEM25 #HPC #FEM #OpenSource

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Thursday, June 12th, 9:00-10:30am PDT 🌟 Dr. John Evans from @colorado.edu will present: "Interpolation-Based Immersed Finite Element and Isogeometric Analysis" 👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🎉 The 𝗠𝗙𝗘𝗠 community is gathering for its 2025 workshop on September 10-11! 👉 Join us in Portland (or virtually) if you are interested in #HPC finite elements ✓ Sign up at mfem.org/workshop ✓ Submit research/student talks ✓ Join the visualization contest #MFEM25

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

🌟 GLVis 4.4 released with many new features: ✓ support for external color palettes ✓ new (optional) palette sets ✓ loading of MFEM data collections ✓ up to 3D vector fields in 1D/2D ✓ bugfixes and refactoring Learn more at glvis.org Try the web version glvis.org/live

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Tuesday, May 6th, 9:00-10:30am PDT 🌟 Dr. David Williams from @pennstateuniv.bsky.social will present: "Finite element exterior calculus in four-dimensional space" 👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be next Tuesday, April 22nd, 10:00-11:30am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Freddie Witherden from @tamu.bsky.social will present: "High Performance Asynchronous I/O for Exascale Spectral Element Methods" 👉 Sign up and learn more at mfem.org/seminar.

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