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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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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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Supercomputer flexibility increased by virtualized operating system

January 20, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Supercomputers have sprung up across the world landscape like the statues on Easter Island — separate, huge, and impenetrable to the average person. They perform hundreds of trillion calculations per second, a figure almost ungraspable by a species that may have entered mathematics by first counting on...

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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.

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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 computational science projects funded by the DOE Office of Science

October 30, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Eight Sandia National Laboratories computational science projects have been awarded a total of $2.9 million annually over the next five years by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) within the DOE Office of Science. The announcement ...

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SANDIA RESEARCHERS Mark Taylor, left, and Bill Spotz will spend the next five years trying to figure out what the future might hold for the Earth’s atmosphere by collaborating on a large-scale computer model.

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.

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.

Computer Code Offers Flexibility in Solving Problems

October 18, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A computer code developed at Sandia National Laboratories is proving its value to industry by simplifying and speeding calculations on the fastest kinds of computers in the world.

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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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