Computing

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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.

Keep telling yourself: “The Red Team is my friend…”

July 24, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Over the past two years, a group at Sandia National Laboratories known informally as the Red Team has, at customer invitation, either successfully invaded or devised successful mock attacks on 35 out of 35 information systems at various sites, along with...

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Comin’ at you — Sandia’s Information Design Assurance Red Team, good guys playing bad guys, seeks out weaknesses in computer systems.

Sandia’s Elaine Raybourn explores ways to make Internet communication more like being in a ‘real’ place

May 11, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Elaine Raybourn, a member of the Advanced Concepts Group (ACG) think tank at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories, is exploring new on-line communication methods that will allow her "to be in two places at once."

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BEING HERE AND THERE -- Sandia National Laboratories researcher Elaine Raybourn explores new communication methods in virtual environments.

Fundamental Insight May Improve Laptop Computer Screens for Future Soldiers and Civilians

September 24, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- A fundamental insight achieved into crystalline materials called phosphors may help industry increase the amount and quality of colored light they give off and lead to the replacement of liquid crystal portable display screens, say scientists at Sandia...

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New Computer Technology Dissolves Limitations to Traditional Design and Engineering Methods

September 6, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Traditional design and engineering constraints are being overcome with a new computer/robotics technology developed jointly by Sandia National Laboratories and Deneb Robotics, Inc. of Auburn Hills, Mich.

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Supercomputer Helps Track Underground Waste in 3-D

April 25, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Four hours, 17 minutes, 46 seconds - less time than it takes most Americans to figure their taxes.

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