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Sandia researcher receives IEEE Computer Society’s 2017 Sidney Fernbach Award

November 8, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Steve Plimpton, a computational scientist at Sandia National Laboratories’ Center for Computing Research, has received the IEEE Computer Society’s 2017 Sidney Fernbach Award for “high-performance computer simulation frameworks that have advanced r…

Categories: Awards, Computing

Topics: computer simulation, Fernbach award, high performance computing, IEEE award, LAMMPS, SPARTA, SPPARKS, Steve Plimpton

3-D codes yield unprecedented physics, engineering insights

August 4, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entry in 2002, sophisticated computer models were key to determining what happened.A piece of foam flew off at launch and hit a tile, damaging the leading edge of the shuttle wing and exposing the unde…

Categories: Computing, Space / Astronomy

Topics: 3-D code, computer codes, DSMC, Open source, Sandia National Laboratories, SPARTA