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Supercomputer benchmark gains adherents

December 21, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A software program that ranks supercomputers on their ability to solve complex problems rather than on raw speed alone continues to gain traction in the high-performance computing community. More than 60 supercomputers were ranked by the emerging tool, termed the High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) benchmark, in...
Michael Heroux

Sandia, ASU collaborate on algae computational modeling, look for algae pond predators

December 17, 2015 • Work part of a broader framework for funding energy-related science, technology LIVERMORE, Calif.— Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University (ASU) have teamed up to further improve computational models of algae growth in raceway ponds that can predict performance, improve pond design and operation and discover ways to improve algae...
Jerilyn Timlin

Speeding up the hydrogen highway

December 16, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Drivers are seeing more hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) on the road, but refueling stations for those vehicles are still few and far between. This is about to change, and one reason is a new testing device being validated at California refueling stations that will greatly...
hystep

Inaugural American Vacuum Society award goes to Sandia technologist

December 14, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The American Vacuum Society has honored Sandia National Laboratories technologist Catherine Sobczak with its inaugural Thin Film Division Distinguished Technologist Award for providing exceptional technical support of thin film research and development. Sobczak will be formally recognized next fall by the society’s Thin Film Division at the...

Government relations manager at Sandia Labs honored by American Physical Society

November 24, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Benn Tannenbaum, manager of Sandia National Laboratories’ Washington, D.C., office, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. He was nominated by its Forum on Physics and Society. Tannenbaum was honored “for outstanding contributions to international peace and security by addressing nuclear arms control, nonproliferation...
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Sandia National Laboratories government relations manager Benn Tannenbaum elected American Physical Society fellow.

Sandia wins 5 R&D100 awards and a green technology gold award

November 19, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs, Sandia National Laboratories researchers captured five R&D100 Awards this year. One entry also won the R&D100’s Green Technology Special Recognition Gold Award. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and judges...

Sandia researcher elected physics fellow after ‘remarkable impact’ in pulsed power

November 18, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Daniel Sinars has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) through its Division of Plasma Physics. The distinction is awarded to no more than one half of one percent of the society’s membership. Sinars’ citation reads, “For scientific contributions and...
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Daniel Sinars

Managing the data deluge for national security analysts

November 17, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — After a disaster or national tragedy, bits of information often are found afterward among vast amounts of available data that might have mitigated or even prevented what happened, had they been recognized ahead of time. In this information age, national security analysts often find themselves searching for...
Kristina Czuchlewski

Computer researcher at Sandia wins IEEE early career award

November 10, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Kurt Ferreira has been selected for the 2015 IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers. The award recognizes up to three individuals who have made influential and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing within...
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Researchers offer consulting to companies that license Sandia inventions

November 5, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a boost to technology transfer, Sandia National Laboratories has launched a program that lets researchers consult for companies that license their Sandia work. “There is a need for this. We hear often in the business community that it would help a lot if our people could...

DOE aims to boost economy through national lab tech transfer

October 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is intensifying efforts to move technology developed at the national laboratories into the private sector to boost the economy and create jobs, says the acting director of the department’s new Office of Technology Transitions. “Tech transfer is a mission of the...

An ‘apatite’ for radionuclides

October 20, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories geochemist Mark Rigali and his colleagues are developing and deploying apatite-based technologies to protect groundwater at sites contaminated by radionuclides and heavy metals. Apatite is currently being used at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State and the Fukushima Dai-ichi...

Chemical engineer named University of New Mexico distinguished alumna

October 14, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The director of Sandia National Laboratories’ Energy Technologies and System Solutions Center has received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of New Mexico (UNM) School of Engineering. Carol Adkins was honored as one of seven distinguished alumni recognized this year for her significant impact on UNM’s...
Carol Adkins

LED Pulser developed by Sandia delivers laser-like performance at fraction of the cost

October 13, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — When Sandia National Laboratories electronics engineer Chris Carlen got enthusiastic about flashlights containing high-power light-emitting devices (LEDs), he didn’t expect his hobby to lead to the creation of a new, high-speed LED driver that delivers lighting performance that exceeds that of conventional sources at a fraction of...
LED Pulser

Bay Area national labs team to tackle long-standing automotive hydrogen storage challenge

October 8, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. —Sandia National Laboratories will lead a new tri-lab consortium to address unsolved scientific challenges in the development of viable solid-state materials for storage of hydrogen onboard vehicles. Better onboard hydrogen storage could lead to more reliable and economic hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. “Storing hydrogen on board vehicles is...
hymarc

Way cheaper catalyst may lower fuel costs for hydrogen-powered cars

October 7, 2015 • ‘ ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories researchers seeking to make hydrogen a less expensive fuel for cars have upgraded a catalyst nearly as cheap as dirt — molybdenum disulfide, “molly” for short — to stand in for platinum, a rare element with the moonlike price of about $900 an ounce....
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Sandia researchers win ‘best paper’ award from AIAA

October 1, 2015 • Paper focuses on scramjet engines used for supersonic flight LIVERMORE, Calif. — The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has recognized Sandia National Laboratories researchers Joe Oefelein and Guilhem Lacaze with a best paper award for their work on scramjet engine simulations. The paper, “A Priori Analysis of Flamelet-Based...
AIAA Best Paper

New Mexico small businesses prosper with technical help

September 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ski bums need fuel to schuss down mountains day in and day out. Their go-to snack is an energy bar, a backpack staple. “We need something that is quick, healthy, sustaining and cheap,” said Kyle Hawari of Taos, New Mexico. But taste matters too. “We humans crave...

Techniques could create better material, design in high-consequence uses

September 23, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine a table with sinuous legs resembling the twisting shape of an inverted swamp cypress trunk. Those flowing legs might make the table stronger, better able to handle whatever someone piles on it. Sandia National Laboratories researchers believe such organically shaped designs, achieved through a technology called...

Sandia clean-energy assistance pilot is open for business

September 23, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Small businesses in the clean-energy sector can apply for technical help from Sandia National Laboratories and other U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) labs through a new pilot. David Danielson, DOE assistant secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), announced the launch of the Small Business Vouchers...

Sandia Labs HENAAC honorees find common threads in diversity

September 21, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Thousands of miles separate the hometowns of Patrick Sena and Abraham Ellis. Sena grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Ellis in Chitre, Panama, but they shared upbringings centered on family, community and culture. “What does it mean to be Hispanic?” said Ellis, manager of Photovoltaic...

Workhorse gamma ray generator HERMES III fires its 10,000th shot at Sandia Labs

September 9, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The High-Energy Radiation Megavolt Electron Source, better known as HERMES III, has fired its 10,000th shot at Sandia National Laboratories. HERMES III, the world’s most powerful gamma ray generator, produces a highly energetic beam that tests how well electronics can survive a burst of radiation that approximates...
HEREMES

New vice president to oversee energy, security, nonproliferation research at Sandia

September 8, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has appointed James M. Chavez vice president of its Energy, Nonproliferation and High Consequence Security Division and its International, Homeland and Nuclear Security Program Management Unit effective Sept. 11. He replaces Jill Hruby, who became Sandia president and labs director in July. Most recently,...
James Chavez

Sandia physicist accepts first joint faculty appointment with Washington State University

September 3, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories physicist Marcus Knudson is the first joint faculty appointee to serve both Sandia and Washington State University (WSU). In the position, Knudson will enhance fundamental research into the compression of materials under extreme conditions, using Sandia’s unique Z machine. “The science of dynamic material...
Marcus Knudson
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