ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Richard Murphy has been identified as a “person to watch,” not by the CIA but by the respected online computing magazine HPCwire. The magazine each year names a handful of researchers whom its editors believe to be doing the world’s most interesting work in supercomputing. Murphy is principal […]
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Sandia MOU to assist MEMS students at University of Guadalajara
February 3, 2011 – 5:00 am
Tiny microelectronic mechanical systems to improve Mexican economy, aid US defense ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will help Mexican engineering students learn to design tiny microelectromechanical devices (MEMS), according to a memorandum of understanding between Sandia and the University of Guadalajara. The rationale for the agreement is that the economic well-being of Mexico is […]
Sandia engineering-sciences director Duane Dimos elected AAAS Fellow
January 27, 2011 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Duane Dimos, director of Sandia’s Engineering Sciences Center 1500, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific association. Fellows are chosen by their peers to be honored for scientific or social efforts to advance science or its applications. The citation […]
Sandia researcher Mike Heroux named editor-in-chief of key software journal
January 26, 2011 – 4:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researcher Mike Heroux has been named editor-in-chief of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journal Transactions on Mathematical Software. The quarterly publication, published by ACM, has been rated among the top 20 journals for its “impact factor” — roughly, the number of times its articles are cited by others. Heroux has […]
Needy children to receive new shoes thanks to Sandia’s Shoes for Kids Program
January 25, 2011 – 6:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Since Sandia’s Shoes for Kids campaign began 54 years ago, the volunteer effort has provided about 12,300 pairs of shoes to needy school children. The program began when two Sandia National Laboratories scientists decided that instead of exchanging Christmas gifts or cards with each other, they would buy shoes for needy school […]
Sandia researchers tailoring fungi-based biofuels to meet the needs of current, advanced combustion engines
January 19, 2011 – 3:00 am
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Engine experts and biofuels researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working on a project that aims to modify an endophytic fungus so that it will produce fuel-type hydrocarbons for transportation purposes. The biofuels being investigated for the project are produced by a class of fungi — endophytes — that live between plant […]
World’s smallest battery created at CINT nanotechnology center
December 9, 2010 – 12:10 pm
Snake-like “Medusa front” offers “a view never before seen” to improve lithium batteries ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A benchtop version of the world’s smallest battery — its anode a single nanowire one seven-thousandth the thickness of a human hair — has been created by a team led by Sandia National Laboratories researcher Jianyu Huang. To better […]
Sandia researchers awarded more than 65 million supercomputing simulation hours by DOE INCITE program
December 9, 2010 – 11:23 am
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Two projects led by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility (CRF) and Computer Sciences and Information Systems Center have been awarded 65 million hours on two Department of Energy (DOE) supercomputers through the DOE’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program. The research projects utilize two […]
Tougher rating system evaluates nine supercomputer capabilities
November 18, 2010 – 11:42 am
Results released at Supercomputing Conference 2010 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Nine supercomputers have been tested, validated and ranked by the new “Graph500” challenge, first introduced this week by an international team led by Sandia National Laboratories. The list of submitters and the order of their finish was released Nov. 17 at the supercomputing conference SC10 meeting […]
New standard proposed for supercomputing
November 15, 2010 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new supercomputer rating system will be released by an international team led by Sandia National Laboratories at the Supercomputing Conference 2010 in New Orleans on Nov. 17. The rating system, Graph500, tests supercomputers for their skill in analyzing large, graph-based structures that link the huge numbers of data points present in biological, […]
Sandia computational researchers awarded $2.6 million in grants from DOE Office of Science
October 27, 2010 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Four Sandia researchers have been awarded three-year grants totalling $2.6 million from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science to pursue computational research proposals that would help create an exascale computer. An exascale computer would be 1,000 times faster than a petascale computer, the fastest now available, which operates at a quadrillion […]
Water’s interaction with platinum demands closer examination, Sandia researchers find
October 13, 2010 – 12:52 pm
Unexpected results found at wetting layer could aid future devices ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Basic assumptions about water’s adsorption to platinum do not hold true, Sandia researchers have found. “The way that water molecules prefer to arrange themselves on platinum has always been largely a matter of speculation,” Sandia researcher Peter Feibelman said. Accurate knowledge is important because […]
Nanoscopic particles resist full encapsulation, Sandia simulations show
October 11, 2010 – 4:00 am
Formerly unrealized defect results in clumping and unwanted chemical interactions ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— It may seem obvious that dunking relatively spherical objects in a sauce — blueberries in melted chocolate, say — will result in an array of completely encapsulated berries. Relying on that concept, fabricators of spherical nanoparticles have similarly dunked their wares in protective […]
Sandia using pathogen detection technology for understanding algal pond collapse
September 22, 2010 – 8:14 am
Research will help commercial sector in making algae more viable, profitable as alternative fuel LIVERMORE, Calif. — Armed with a pathogen detection technology honed through internal investments, as well as a recent $800K grant secured through the Department of Energy’s Biomass Program, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are tackling algal pond collapse, an issue that […]
Successful integration of biofuels and combustion engines vital for biofuel success, says Sandia-led report
September 15, 2010 – 7:00 am
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Transportation experts are proposing that the research and development of next-generation biofuels must be done in conjunction with the development of advanced combustion engines if those biofuels are to become a reality and long-term success in the U.S. transportation sector, according to a new report issued by Sandia National Laboratories. The recommendations […]