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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...

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.

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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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.
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