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Nuclear weapons lab loses 67 computers
News US officials are investigating the disappearance of 67 computers from the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab in New Mexico, according to a not-for-profit group that exposes government misconduct. A BlackBerry belonging to another worker was lost in a...
[February 16, 2009, 16:53]
Lab to sample Linux for weapons work
News Los Alamos National Laboratory is buying a $6m (£3.8m), 2,048-processor Linux supercomputer to run its nuclear weapons simulation software, an effort that will test the limits of these less expensive megamachines.
[September 24, 2002, 7:33]
IBM wins bid to build hybrid supercomputer
News The NNSA, which oversees US nuclear weapons work at Los Alamos and other sites, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The supercomputer, for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, will be the world's fastest machine and is designed to...
[September 6, 2006, 10:05]
Roadrunner pips Jaguar on supercomputer list
News Roadrunner, which is located at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, was enhanced earlier this year and in June became the first to break the petaflop barrier, reaching 1.105 petaflops, according to Top500.
[November 17, 2008, 14:12]
Microsoft, US dispute nuclear software threat
News Russian scientists alerted Los Alamos lab to the problem for fear that American nuclear materials were at risk, he wrote. Bugs exist, and they get fixed," said Nancy Ambrosiano, a spokeswoman for the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
[July 23, 2001, 17:03]
Nuclear lab bans wireless networks
News He said the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico may enforce a similar ban. The Los Alamos Lab could not be reached for comment. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said it has banned the use of wireless computer networks at its...
[January 31, 2002, 13:21]
Red Hat doffs cap at latest Fedora
News Some programmers are happy with Red Hat, however -- including Gary Sandine, the chief technology officer of Los Alamos Computers, which sells Linux computers chiefly to tech-savvy researchers in Los Alamos, N.M.
[May 19, 2004, 9:15]
Big Blue flexes supercomputing muscle
News They include SGI, which built a supercomputer named Blue Mountain at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Intel, which built the ASCI Red machine at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
[August 15, 2001, 9:21]
IBM to build fastest supercomputers to date
News Next came the three-teraflop machines, Blue Mountain, built by SGI for Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and Blue Pacific, built by IBM at the Livermore lab in California. The program, with a budget in the billions of dollars, was...
[November 19, 2002, 9:53]
Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers The purpose of this research at Los Alamos Nation Lab is to improve, or at leas maintain, connectivity between hosts even when the network topology is drastically al altered. TCP/IP routing is the standard for static wired networks, but TCP/IP...
[July 11, 2008, 1:02]
A Study of FDDI and Ethernet Traffic on the LANL Network Backbone
White Papers This paper discusses several network traffic traces taken on the Los Alamos National Laboratory backbone between 2001 and 2002. These traces, approximately 1.2 terabytes of binary data, will soon be released for public study in an anonymous form.
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
Transmeta's low power finds place in supercomputers
News Troubled chip company Transmeta got a boost on Friday when the Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) showed off Green Destiny, a new supercomputer architecture based on Transmeta's Crusoe processor.
[May 20, 2002, 12:47]
InfiniBand reborn for supercomputing
News Los Alamos National Laboratory has installed a major supercomputer made of 128 computers interconnected by InfiniBand, and a host of InfiniBand companies announced products this week at the SC2002 supercomputing show in Baltimore, Maryland.
[November 22, 2002, 8:25]
IBM's Roadrunner to smash supercomputing records
News Roadrunner, which will be delivered to the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in summer 2008, will be capable of performing more than a quadrillion operations, or a petaflop, when it's fully operational.
[November 13, 2007, 7:24]
HP moves up in supercomputer list
News The new systems, being built at Los Alamos National Laboratory, bumped IBM's ASCI White two spots down the list. A supercomputer for simulating nuclear explosions has advanced Hewlett-Packard's position in a ranking to be released Thursday night of...
[November 15, 2002, 8:21]
New entries join supercomputing top 10
News The Opterons are used in a 2,816-processor cluster built by Linux Networx for Los Alamos National Laboratory. The supercomputer gene pool has expanded. Of the top 10 systems on a list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers announced on Sunday...
[November 17, 2003, 9:20]
China wants place on supercomputer charts
News Second and third place are occupied by two identical HP systems called ASCI Q at Los Alamos National Laboratory that now have been combined into one with a 14 teraflop speed. China plans to create the world's third most powerful supercomputer...
[July 25, 2003, 9:31]
IBM brings fresh hardware options to clusters
News The QS20 blades are part of IBM's massive "Roadrunner" supercomputer being built at Los Alamos National Laboratory. IBM plans to begin shipping two new hardware options next month to augment the performance of its Cluster 1350 systems.
[November 1, 2006, 9:19]
Cray's nuclear simulator to hit mass market
News AMD has also landed Opteron-based supercomputer deals with the DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory, Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Dawning Information Industry of China.
[October 27, 2003, 15:40]
Compaq supercomputer set for debut
News Meanwhile, another Compaq supercomputer is under construction at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a model that's expected eventually to be able to perform 30 trillion calculations per second. A gargantuan Compaq supercomputer called Terascale now is...
[October 29, 2001, 9:00]
