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Sandia researcher Mike Heroux named editor-in-chief of key software journal

January 26, 2011 • 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...

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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 DO…

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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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Topics: supercomputing

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 De…

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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 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 Lab...

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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.

National Security Computing Center open for business

February 25, 2010 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sandia's Red Storm supercomputer becomes primary machine for the National Security Computing Center. Click on the image thumbnail to download a high-resolution version."][/caption]ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Sandia National Lab…

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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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Sandia supercomputers offer new explanation of Tunguska disaster

December 17, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia National Laboratories supercomputer simulations suggest.

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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

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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.

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

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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

‘Prettier world’ of computer modeling provides key details, says Sandia researcher

July 12, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Taking issue with the perception that computer models lack realism, a Sandia National Laboratories researcher told his audience that simulations of the nanoscale provide researchers more detailed results — not less — than experiments alone.

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Rendering of Sandia simulations by Michael Chandross demonstrates significant transfer of material to the probe tip of an atomic force microscope

Sandia’s ASCI Red, world’s first teraflop supercomputer, is decommissioned

June 29, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On a table in a small meeting room at Sandia National Laboratories rested a picture of the deceased — a row of identical cabinets that formed part of the entity known as ASCI Red, the world’s first teraflop supercomputer.

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YOU'RE STILL THE ONE — By supercomputer standards, Sandia’s ASCI Red, the world’s first teraflop machine, was ancient, but what a run it had! Here, designer Jim Tomkins (left) talks abuot ASCI Red and its accomplishments with Intel officials Justin Rattner and Stephen Wheat. Rob Leland looks on at right.

Sandia-designed supercomputer ranked world’s most efficient in two of six categories

March 29, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new series of measurements — the next step in evolution of criteria to determine more accurately the efficiency of supercomputers — has rated Sandia National Laboratories’ Red Storm computer the best in the world in two of six new categories, and very...

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RED STORM — Cray contractor Jason Repik checks out a Red Storm panel. Red Storm has been judged to be the world’s most efficient supercomputer in two of six categories.

Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property
conference to be held Dec. 5-9

December 5, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Representatives from the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorneys’ offices from around the country will be in Albuquerque Dec. 5-9 for the annual Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) Coordinator’s conference, hosted by the National Nuclear...

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Red Storm to be assembled in New Mexico

July 27, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Red Storm will be faster, yet smaller and less expensive, than previous supercomputers, say researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories, where the machine will be assembled.

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Desktop computers to counsel users to make better decisions

January 22, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — That computer on your desk is just your helper. But soon it may become a very close friend.

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“Red Storm” supercomputer slated for 2004

June 18, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Following a competitive selection process the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories has announced that it will enter into negotiations with Cray Inc. (NASDAQ NM: CRAY) for a multiyear project, valued at approximately...

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Antarctica, Sandia’s ‘garage-built’ supercomputer, may become 20th fastest in world

September 6, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The latest version of CplantTM Antarctica, the upwardly mobile computer at Sandia, is expected by researchers to become the 20th fastest in the world after integrating, by early fall, 1,300 off-the-shelf computers recently arrived from Compaq Computer...

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NOT A MAGIC LANTERN, BUT CLOSE — Ron Brightwell (9223), examines the motherboard of one of Cplant's computers. The board is out of a Digital personal workstation 500A. Digital is now owned by Compaq Computer Corp.

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