Lab to sample Linux for weapons work
News Linux NetworX could benefit greatly from convincing the Los Alamos and Livermore labs that Linux clusters are worthwhile. Los Alamos National Laboratory is buying a $6m (£3.8m), 2,048-processor Linux supercomputer to run its nuclear weapons...
[September 24, 2002, 7:33]
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]
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. Schwoegler calls the possibility of eventually allowing wireless networks back into the labs "a big question...
[January 31, 2002, 13:21]
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]
Retinal chipset gives sight to the blind
News Other labs, such as Sandia, Los Alamos and Laurence Livermore, are modelling neural pathways and testing new materials. Aimed at those suffering from macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa, where the light-sensitive cells on the retina stop...
[September 18, 2002, 10:29]
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]
Supercomputing: Small firms making a big impact
News Linux Networx, for instance, is building two supercomputing clusters based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor for the Los Alamos National Laboratory: a 2,816-processor cluster will be used to study nuclear stockpiling, while a smaller...
[May 18, 2004, 11:35]
