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Sandia cyber project looks to help IT professionals with complex Domain Name System (DNS) vulnerabilities
January 11, 2012 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories computer scientist Casey Deccio has developed a visualization tool known as DNSViz to help network administrators within the federal government and global IT community better understand Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC) and to help them troubleshoot problems. (Click here to see a short video of...
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Rankings released for supercomputers doing “big data”
November 15, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—The list of supercomputers entered in the Graph500 competition now features 50 competitors, up from nine in its initial release a year ago, said Sandia National Laboratories researcher Richard Murphy, chair of the Graph500 steering committee. New rankings were released Tuesday in Seattle at SC2011, the international conference for...
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Cyber workshop at Sandia Labs seeks potential responses to cyberattacks
October 25, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Among other dubious achievements, hackers have stolen identities, broken into bank accounts and breached computer systems of military contractors. They could conceivably interrupt water or electricity service to targeted populations. And worse. To solve these problems, Sandia National Laboratories has plans to increase cybersecurity research over the...
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Sandia’s “Cooler” technology offers fundamental breakthrough in heat transfer for microelectronics, other cooling applications
July 7, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new technology with the potential to dramatically alter the air-cooling landscape in computing and microelectronics, and lab officials are now seeking licensees in the electronics chip cooling field to license and commercialize the device. The “Sandia Cooler,” also known as the...
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Sandia and Cray Inc. to tackle “big data” in new supercomputing institute
May 27, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc. are forming an institute focused on data-intensive supercomputers. The Supercomputing Institute for Learning and Knowledge Systems (SILKS), to be located at Sandia in Albuquerque, will take advantage of the strengths of Sandia and Cray by making software and hardware...
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LAMMPS supercomputer code developer earns special recognition
March 3, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Steve Plimpton, who led development of a widely used computer code that models how materials behave, has been invited to present a keynote lecture at the Feb. 27-March 3 Minerals, Materials & Materials Society (TMS) meeting in San Diego. Plimpton developed the LAMMPS...
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Tamara Kolda accepts high-performance-computing editorship of key journal
January 26, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Tamara Kolda has accepted a section editorship of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics’ Journal on Scientific Computing [SIAM SISC], overseeing the portion reserved for high-performance computing and software. “The journal just formed this section due to increased interest in computing,” Kolda said. “I was excited...
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Sandia researchers awarded more than 65 million supercomputing simulation hours by DOE INCITE program
December 9, 2010 • 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....
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Tougher rating system evaluates nine supercomputer capabilities
November 18, 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 in...
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New standard proposed for supercomputing
November 15, 2010 • 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...
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Sandia computational researchers awarded $2.6 million in grants from DOE Office of Science
October 27, 2010 • 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,...
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Red Sky/Mesa wins Oracle green award
September 22, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Red Sky/Red Mesa, listed by Top500 Supercomputer Sites as the 10th fastest computer in the world, has been selected as one of the 15 winners of Oracle’s Enable the Eco-Enterprise award. “Red Sky/Red Mesa is the most eco-transparent (energy efficient) compute platform Sandia has deployed to date,”...
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DARPA selects Sandia National Laboratories to design new supercomputer prototype
August 17, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has been selected as one of four institutions to develop new supercomputer prototype systems for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). To meet the increasing advanced computing needs for the Department of Defense (DoD), DARPA launched the Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program....
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Breaking the logjam: improving data download from outer space
May 18, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Satellite systems in space keyed to detect nuclear events and environmental gasses currently face a kind of data logjam because their increasingly powerful sensors produce more information than their available bandwidth can easily transmit. Experiments conducted by Sandia National Laboratories at the International Space Station preliminarily indicate...
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Sandia wins 2 national technology transfer awards for work with Cray, Stirling Energy Systems
April 28, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has won two national Federal Laboratory Consortium awards for its efforts to transfer technology to supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc. and solar energy supplier Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. The Federal Laboratory Consortium plans to present the Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards in Albuquerque at its national...
Categories: Awards, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy
Archie Gibson, a team leader on the Computer Operations Team at Sandia National Laboratories, works inside the Red Storm supercomputer, the result of an award-winning partnership between Cray Inc. and Sandia National Laboratories. (Photo by Randy Montoya)

Defense-scale supercomputing comes to alternative energy research
April 26, 2010 • Albuquerque, N.M. — A new supercomputer that more quickly models the most efficient ways to harness energy from the sun, wind and other renewable resources is now operating at Sandia National Laboratories. Red Mesa, a 180-teraflop computing platform, is a collaboration between Sandia and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)....
Categories: Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia to break ground for new computational laboratories building
March 22, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A groundbreaking ceremony for a new facility – the Combustion Research Computation and Visualization (CRCV) building, part of the Combustion Research Facility (CRF) – will take place at 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 24, on the grounds of Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore. The Department of Energy’s Office...
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Artist’s rendering of Combustion Research Facility (CRF) complex (right) with proposed Combustion Research Computation and Visualization (CRCV) building (left). The new $5 million building, funded by the Department of Energys Office of Science (SC) and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EE), will enhance the computational and modeling efforts that are central to the CRFs work portfolio. Drawing by Daniel Strong.

Sandia researchers awarded 73 million supercomputing simulation hours by DOE INCITE program
February 23, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three computationally based projects proposed by Sandia National Laboratories researchers have been awarded 73 million of 1.6 billion supercomputing processor hours offered by the Department of Energy’s INCITE program to advance cutting-edge work. Another Sandia researcher is participating in a Los Alamos National Laboratory-led proposal that was...
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Sandia computer scientists successfully boot one million Linux kernels as virtual machines
July 28, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., have for the first time successfully demonstrated the ability to run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual machines. The achievement will allow cyber security researchers to more effectively observe behavior found in malicious botnets, or networks...
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More chip cores can mean slower supercomputing, Sandia simulation shows
January 12, 2009 • 16 multicores perform barely as well as two for complex applications ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The worldwide attempt to increase the speed of supercomputers merely by increasing the number of processor cores on individual chips unexpectedly worsens performance for many complex applications, Sandia simulations have found. A Sandia team simulated key...
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