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Sandia spiking tool improves artificially intelligent devices
February 27, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Whetstone, a software tool that sharpens the output of artificial neurons, has enabled neural computer networks to process information up to a hundred times more efficiently than the current industry standard, say the Sandia National Laboratories researchers who developed it. The aptly named software, which greatly reduces...
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Steve Verzi, William Severa, Brad Aimone, and Craig Vineyard hold different versions of emerging neuromorphic hardware platforms

Three Sandia Labs researchers earn national honors in leadership and technology
February 11, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three Sandia National Laboratories researchers were honored at the BEYA (Black Engineer of the Year) STEM Global Competitiveness Conference for their leadership and technological achievements. Warren Davis, Quincy Johnson and Olivia Underwood received their awards during the conference in Washington, D.C., Feb. 7-9. The annual meeting recognizes...
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Warren Davis

Quantum computing steps further ahead with new projects at Sandia
January 7, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Quantum computing is a term that periodically flashes across the media sky like heat lightning in the desert: brilliant, attention-getting and then vanishing from the public’s mind with no apparent aftereffects. Yet a multimillion dollar international effort to build quantum computers is hardly going away. And now,...
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Peter Maunz and Ojas Parekh

Astra supercomputer at Sandia Labs is fastest Arm-based machine on TOP500 list
November 13, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Astra, the world’s fastest Arm-based supercomputer according to the TOP500 list, has achieved a speed of 1.529 petaflops, placing it 203rd on a ranking of top computers announced at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis SC18 conference in Dallas. A petaflop is...
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Astra supercomputer

Arm-based supercomputer prototype to be deployed at Sandia National Laboratories by DOE
June 18, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Microprocessors designed by Arm are ubiquitous in automobile electronics, cellphones and other embedded applications, but until recently they have not provided the performance necessary to make them practical for high-performance computing. Astra, one of the first supercomputers to use processors based on the Arm architecture in a...
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Astra ARM Supercomputer

Sandia computational mathematician named SIAM fellow
June 13, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories computational scientist and mathematician John Shadid has been named a 2018 fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Shadid’s selection by SIAM was based upon his research on solution methods for multiphysics systems, scalable parallel numerical algorithms and numerical methods for strongly...
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John Shadid

Exascale Earth-modeling system is ready to make high-fidelity predictions for energy
April 27, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Earth modeling system developed over the last four years and unveiled Monday is expected to have one of the finest resolutions ever achieved by supercomputers simulating aspects of the planet’s climate, said Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mark Taylor, the project’s chief computational scientist. The Energy Exascale...
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Using biomimicry to detect outbreaks faster
April 9, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Our immune systems are made up of billions of white blood cells searching for signs of infections and foreign invaders, ready to raise the alarm. Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists Pat Finley and Drew Levin have been working to improve the U.S. biosurveillance system that alerts authorities...
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Pat Finley, Drew Levin, and Melanie Moses sit in an emergency room, looking at a laptop.

Supercomputing under a new lens: A Sandia-developed benchmark re-ranks top computers
February 27, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories software program now installed as an additional test for the widely observed TOP500 supercomputer challenge has become increasingly prominent. The program’s full name — High Performance Conjugate Gradients, or HPCG —…
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Blast, impact simulations could lead to better understanding of injuries and body armor
January 23, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is developing specialized computer modeling and simulation methods to better understand how blasts on a battlefield could lead to traumatic brain injury and injuries to vital organs, like the heart and lungs. Researchers at Sandia have studied the mechanisms behind traumatic brain injury for...
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Sandia computer modeling aids solder reliability in nuclear weapons
December 19, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Solder isn’t the first thing that comes to mind as essential to a nuclear weapon. But since weapons contain hundreds of thousands of solder joints, each potentially a point of failure, Sandia National Laboratories has developed and refined computer mo…
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Sandia researcher receives IEEE Computer Society’s 2017 Sidney Fernbach Award
November 8, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Steve Plimpton, a computational scientist at Sandia National Laboratories’ Center for Computing Research, has received the IEEE Computer Society’s 2017 Sidney Fernbach Award for “high-performance computer simulation frameworks that have advanced r…
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Sandia computing researcher wins DOE Early Career Research Program Award
October 4, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Tim Wildey has received a 2017 Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Wildey is Sandia’s first winner of the Advanced Scientific Computing Research branch of the prestigious program, said manager Daniel Turner. The national award, now...
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Radiation analysis software makes emergency responders’ jobs quicker, easier
September 5, 2017 • InterSpec helps decision-makers determine source, type, amount of radiation in real time LIVERMORE, Calif. — When law enforcement officers and first responders arrive at an emergency involving radiation, they need a way to swiftly assess the situation to keep the public an…
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Ethan Chan, Alf Morales, and Will Johnson

Reversing the curse
May 3, 2017 • Sandia develops math techniques to improve computational efficiency in quantum chemistry[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories researchers Prashant Rai, left, Habib Najm, center, and Khachik Sargsyan discuss mathematical techniques used t…
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Sandia researchers develop mathematical methods

Sandia to evaluate if computational neuroscientists are on track
November 2, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Advanced computers may have beaten experts in chess and Go, but humans still excel at “one of these things is not like the others.” Even toddlers excel at generalization, extrapolation and pattern recognition. But a computer algorithm trained only on pictures of red apples can’t recognize that...
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Sandia's MICrONS team examines a sample test object for IARPA's Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONS) project

Diamonds Aren’t Forever: Sandia, Harvard team create first quantum computer bridge
October 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — By forcefully embedding two silicon atoms in a diamond matrix, Sandia researchers have demonstrated for the first time on a single chip all the components needed to create a quantum bridge to link quantum computers together. “People have already built small quantum computers,” says Sandia researcher Ryan...
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This stylized illustration of a quantum bridge shows an array of holes etched in diamond with two silicon atoms placed between the holes. (Illustration courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Turning to the brain to reboot computing
October 3, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Computation is stuck in a rut. The integrated circuits that powered the past 50 years of technological revolution are reaching their physical limits. This predicament has computer scientists scrambling for new ideas: new devices built using novel physics, new ways of organizing units within computers and even...
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Sandia National Laboratories researchers are drawing inspiration from neurons in the brain, such as these green fluorescent protein-labeled neurons in a mouse neocortex, with the aim of developing neuro-inspired computing systems to reboot computing

Supercomputers receive funding to help predict, modify new materials
September 16, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy (DOE) will invest $16 million over the next four years in supercomputer technology that will accelerate the design of new materials by combining theoretical and experimental efforts to create new validated codes. Sandia National Laboratories researcher Luke Shulenburger will head a team working...
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Luke Shulenburger

New cooling method for supercomputers to save millions of gallons of water
August 31, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In different parts of the country, people discuss gray-water recycling and rainwater capture to minimize the millions of gallons of groundwater required to cool large data centers. But the simple answer in many climates, said Sandia National Laboratories researcher David J. Martinez, is to use liquid refrigerant....
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Dave Martinez
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