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Thunderbird Linux Cluster ranks 6th in Top500 supercomputing Race

November 14, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories’ 8960-processor Thunderbird Linux cluster, developed in collaboration with Dell, Inc. and Cisco, maintained its sixth position in the Top500 Supercomputers by achieving an improved overall performance of 53.0 teraflops, an 18.5 perc

Categories: Computing

John Zepper inspects a Thunderbird supercomputer component under the Sandia Thunderbird insignia.

Red Storm upgrade lifts Sandia supercomputer to 2nd in world, but 1st in scalability, say researchers

November 14, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A $15 million upgrade to Sandia’s Red Storm computer has increased its peak speed from 41.5 to 124.4 teraflops in a computing terrain in which a single teraflop was a big deal only 6 years ago.

Categories: Computing

Sandia's long row of Red Storm cabinets give hints of the supercomputer's dazzling scalability.

Sandia researchers discover way to see how a drug attaches to a cell

November 13, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers John Shelnutt and Yujiang Song have discovered a better way to see where a drug attaches to a cell through a new process that produces novel hollow platinum nanostructures.

Categories: Nanotechnology

Electron microscope images of hollow platinum nanocages at different magnifications.

Sandia, UNM researchers show brain injury may occur within one millisecond after head hits car windshield

November 7, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Research by a Sandia National Laboratories engineer and a University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center neurologist shows that brain injury may occur within one millisecond after a human head is thrust into a windshield as a result of a car accident.

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

MODELING BRAIN INJURY — Sandia engineer Paul Taylor, left and Corey Ford, neurologist at the University of New Mexico’s Department of Neurology, study models of early traumatic brain injury.

Z machine melts diamond to puddle

November 2, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia’s Z machine, by creating pressures more than 10 million times that of the atmosphere at sea level, has turned a diamond sheet into a pool of liquid.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia’s JESS® 7.0 rule engine available for licensing

November 1, 2006 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Jess® 7.0, a popular rule engine created by Sandia National Laboratories that enables software developers to embed intelligence in the form of business rules directly into their Java TM applications, is now available for licensing.

Categories: Computing

Three Sandia researchers receive ‘Better Way’ Award

October 31, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Three Sandia researchers together with fellow team members from Delta Airlines, Drexel University, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) William J. Hughes Technical Center were awarded the FAA-Air Transport Association of America (ATA) Non-Destructive T

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Fifth annual Homeland Security Conference to be held in Albuquerque this week

October 23, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The fifth annual statewide Homeland Security Conference will be held Oct. 24-26 at the Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North (5151 San Francisco Rd. NE).

Categories: Homeland security

Sandia researchers develop contaminant warning program for EPA to monitor water systems in real time

October 10, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers are working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), University of Cincinnati and Argonne National Laboratory to develop contaminant warning systems that can monitor municipal water systems to determine ...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

JUST CHECKING — Bill Hart, project lead for the Sandia team that developed water system software, does some field checking in the Albuquerque foothills.

LOGIIC helps keep oil, gas control systems safe

October 9, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the past 12 months, Sandia National Laboratories has served as the lead national lab in Project LOGIIC (Linking the Oil and Gas Industry to Improve Cyber Security). The project was created to keep U.S. oil and gas control systems safe and secure, and to...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

LOGIIC team members Bryan Richardson and Weston Henry demonstrate the project's monitoring solution hosted at Sandia's Center for Control Systems Security.

DOE selects Sandia as National Laboratory Center for Solid-State Lighting Research and Development

October 5, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman announced today that Sandia National Laboratories is the new home of the National Laboratory Center for Solid-State Lighting Research and Development. He made the announcement at a news conference...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

From the left, Jerry Simmons, senior manager of Sandia’s Energy Sciences Department, briefs U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio, Sandia President and Laboratories Director Tom Hunter, and Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M, at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies. Shortly after, Bodman announced that Sandia is the new home of the National Laboratory Center for Solid-State Lighting Research and Development.

Sandia releases free to the public Acro 1.0 optimization software

October 4, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Acro 1.0 optimization software, developed by a Sandia National Laboratories team led by Bill Hart, has recently been released to the public and is available at no charge.

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Buying, selling energy being conducted in safer environment due to Sandia standards assessments

October 4, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Companies buying and selling natural gas and electricity are conducting business in a safer environment thanks to three information standards assessments done by Sandia National Laboratories since 2000.

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Phase diagram of water revised by Sandia researchers

October 3, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Supercomputer simulations by two Sandia researchers have significantly altered the theoretical diagram universally used by scientists to understand the characteristics of water at extreme temperatures and pressures.

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

The electrically conducting structure of metallic water occurs at a more accessible part of the water phase diagram than formerly thought. Here, a snapshot from a first-principles computer simulation demonstrates the atomic disorder. Red spheres are hydrogen atoms, white spheres are oxygen atoms, and the electron density from a partially occupied electron state responsible for the conductivity is shown as gold.

Secretary Bodman to visit Sandia Oct. 5

October 3, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman will be at Sandia Thursday, Oct. 5, to make an announcement about Sandia’s roles in solid-state lighting and in national and energy security.

Categories: Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering

Inter-Institutional Agreement wins 2006 Deal of Distinction Award

September 18, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new and easier method to quickly put together intellectual property bundles for licensing has won Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and the Science and Technology Corp. at the University of New Mexico the 2006 Deal of...

Categories: Awards

Terrorism: Threats, Training, Tactics and Technology Conference Scheduled for Oct. 4-6 at Sandia

September 18, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Security Systems & Technology Center and the Terrorism Research Center (TRC) will co-host the “Terrorism: Threats, Training, Tactics and Technology” conference Oct. 4-6, in Bldg. 962.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia and Los Alamos host DHS Secretary at NISAC dedication Sept. 18

September 15, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff will dedicate the new National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC) at Sandia National Laboratories on Monday, Sept. 18, at 9 a.m.

Categories: Media advisories

Sandia fingerprinting technique demonstrates wireless device driver vulnerabilities

September 12, 2006 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — The next time you’re sipping a latte and surfing the Net at your favorite neighborhood wireless café, someone just a few seats away could be breaking into your laptop and causing irreparable damage to your computer’s operating system by secretly tapping...

Categories: Computing

Wireless network drivers, say Sandia researchers, are easy to interact with and potentially exploit if the attacker is within transmission range of the wireless device. By role-playing the position of an adversary, Sandia has demonstrated a unique fingerprinting technique that allows hackers with ill intent to identify a wireless driver without modification to or cooperation from a wireless device.

Sandia, task force to study ways ocean and wastewater can be desalinized in California

September 6, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories, together with fellow members of the Joint Water Reuse & Desalination Task Force, in coming months will be studying the best ways to desalinize — and make potable...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Sandia hosts NASA test at Solar Tower Sept. 6

August 28, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center’s Space Propulsion Technology Project is scheduled to conduct tests at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility Wednesday, Sept. 6, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. MDT. A new advanced thermal...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Artist concept of a spacecraft using aerocapture to enter an orbit around Mars.

Sandia’s community contributions surpass $15 million

August 22, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Lockheed Martin Corporation on behalf of Sandia National Laboratories has contributed more than $15 million to Albuquerque-area community organizations since Lockheed Martin became manager of the laboratory Oct. 1, 1993.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia’s Neutron Generator Production receives Shingo Prize

August 18, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing — deemed the Nobel Prize for manufacturing by Business Week — recognized Sandia’s Neutron Generator Production with a Bronze-level Shingo Prize Public Sector Award for 2006. The center produces neutron...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

National nanotechnology core facility to be dedicated in Albuquerque Aug. 23

August 16, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A ceremony to dedicate the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) Core Facility will take place Wednesday, Aug. 23, at 10:30 a.m. at the CINT facility located on the west side of Eubank Boulevard just north of Kirtland Air Force Base.

Categories: Media advisories

Artist’s conception of metal panel artwork to be placed at the entry of the CINT core facility. A smaller version should be mounted on an easel by the front door at the dedication.

Rapidly Deployable Chemical Detection System tested at McAfee Stadium

August 15, 2006 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Baseball fans cheering on their beloved Oakland A’s in a recent homestand may have been happy about the team’s play, but the best news for those visitors to McAfee Stadium didn’t take place on the field and couldn’t be noticed by even the most observant...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

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