Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
     
         (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.
     
        {Home (http://www.llnl.gov/)}.
     
        Address: Fremont, California, USA.
     
        (1996-10-30)