January 2007
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TSF Team Honored with DOE Project Management Award

TSF award

The Terascale Simulation Facility (TSF) Project at Lawrence Livermore National Lab has recently won the DOE Secretary’s Project Management Award of Achievement.

The Project Management Awards are presented annually to three teams that demonstrate outstanding performance based on overall management and successful completion of a project.
Anita Zenger, the Lab’s TSF project manager, accepted the award on behalf of the TSF team during a DOE conference for contractor project managers and federal project directors in Alexandria, VA, in mid-November.

The TSF is a 253,000-square-foot facility that houses world-class supercomputers and more than 250 staff. The facility designers had to carefully consider and balance safety and efficiency, and the need for flexibility to address changing computing technology. Innovations in the TSF’s design include heating and cooling for demanding computer systems, advanced computer cooling capabilities, highest achievable clear space and effective use of natural lighting for offices. The building was completed in late 2004, eight months ahead of schedule and $1.2 million under budget.

“I am proud that the team produced a computing asset for the Lab that is second to none,” said Barbara Atkinson, the TSF team’s Computation Directorate management liaison. “[The TSF] positions our lab well for the future.”

The first Lawrence Livermore Laboratory building dedicated to computing to be constructed in 20 years, the TSF will become the home for next-generation supercomputers. Photos and text documenting the pre-construction site view and artists’s renderings, the groundbreaking, month-by-month construction progress, and the ribbon-cutting ceremony are available in the TSF Construction Scrapbook.TSF team