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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. The group also posted a letter from the Energy...
[February 16, 2009, 16:53]
Nuclear lab bans wireless networks
News The lab, which produces research on nuclear weapons and other national defence technologies, disabled the two wireless local area networks that were in use at its Livermore, California, campus as a result of the ban, instituted in mid-January...
[January 31, 2002, 13:21]
Compaq, nuclear lab teaming on supercomputer
News Compaq Computer is teaming with nuclear research facility, Sandia National Laboratories and life science company, Celera Genomics, to build what is anticipated to be one of the fastest supercomputers in the world.
[January 19, 2001, 16:04]
Lab to sample Linux for weapons work
News Though the new system will run unclassified programs such as predicting the properties of new materials, those tests will serve as a proxy to predict how well nuclear weapons simulation software works, said lab spokesman Jim Danneskiold.
[September 24, 2002, 7:33]
IBM wins bid to build hybrid supercomputer
News Bidding for the system opened in May, when a congressional subcommittee allocated $35m for the first phase of the project, said Domenici, a Republican from New Mexico, where the nuclear weapons lab is located.
[September 6, 2006, 10:05]
Big Blue breaks 36 Teraflop barrier to take supercomputing speed lead
News IBM is building the Blue Gene/L for nuclear weapons lab Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory but has begun selling the system to other customers. But when it comes to the nuclear weapons simulations at the heart of the lab's mission, the 512MB of...
[September 30, 2004, 10:55]
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. To our knowledge, there has been no Russian nuclear information lost or any diversion of Russian nuclear material due to the...
[July 23, 2001, 17:03]
Supercomputers go even larger
News A system with 256 Intel Xeon processors at Sandia National Laboratories, the lab affiliated with the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, ranks at 79. The arrival of NEC's top-ranked Earth Simulator in Japan has...
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
IBM readies retail supercomputer
News That was the case for the p5-575's star customer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's ASC Purple, a supercomputer for predicting whether nuclear weapons will continue to work as they age. The lab needed systems with large amounts of memory for...
[February 11, 2005, 8:00]
Blue Gene/L beats own speed record
News ASC Purple, originally called ASCI Purple, got the first part of its name from the Department of Energy's Advanced Simulation and Computing program, which was designed to guarantee that U.S.nuclear weapons would continue to work even as they age...
[October 28, 2005, 8:20]
Blue Gene/L cruises past 100 teraflop barrier
News Purple uses fewer, more-powerful processors with more memory, a design that makes it better suited to its primary purpose: complex simulations of nuclear weapons physics. IBM has said the full system will be installed by May, and Livermore Lab...
[March 24, 2005, 9:15]
Cryptography takes a quantum leap
News Their work in establishing quantum mechanics led to the development of nuclear power, semiconductors, lasers and magnetic resonance imaging. Qbox is just a research device, a lab device, an open system that's completely configurable and does not do...
[November 7, 2003, 9:00]
Lexi-SELECT
Downloads Lexi-NBCA (Nuclear, Biological & Chemical Agent) Exposures. Lexi-Lab & Diagnostic Procedures. Lexi-SELECT offers access to Lexi-Comps exclusive set of databases, including: Lexi-Drugs. Lexi-Interact. Pediatric Lexi-Drugs.
[November 27, 2008, 3:51]
Linux company to work on supercomputer
News The work will be geared to meet the demands of the Energy Department's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), work that's been going on since the mid-1990s to simulate nuclear-weapons tests.
[August 29, 2001, 10:27]
UK teen escapes jail for nuclear hacking
News A University of Exeter student who hacked into US Department of Energy computers responsible for US energy supplies and for the integrity and safety of US nuclear weapons has been sentenced to 200 hours community service at Southwark Crown Court.
[February 3, 2004, 9:40]
PEPID PDC - Portable Drug Companion (PalmOS)
Downloads Nuclear, biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction Biological Chemical Radiation Exposure Primary Blast Injury Emergency Contacts Get your entire pharmacy hooked up with PEPID PDC Online.This integrated reference includes: A complete Drug...
[January 30, 2002, 7:00]
PEPID Emergency Physician Suite
Downloads Instant access to Immediate Lifesaving Protocols BLS, ACLS, ATLS, PALS, RSI, procedures, quick drugs and drips, toxidromes, and algorithms Valuable Toxicology section which includes toxin identification, drugs of abuse, household & cleaning agents...
[February 5, 2008, 7:00]
Cern lab hones business tech of the future
News The Cern nuclear-physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, is helping the technology industry refine the multicore processors and fat gigabit networks destined for the datacentres of tomorrow through the Openlab initiative.
[October 20, 2008, 12:43]
Web record falls to Japanese team
News In contrast, last month team a comprising members of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the California Institute of Technology achieved a speed equivalent to sending a full-length DVD film in seven seconds.
[November 4, 2003, 9:15]
A Year Ago: Viruses: What punishment fits the crime?
News The virus is also known as Chernobyl, since the most common variant attacks only on April 26, the anniversary of that Soviet Union nuclear disaster. Carey Nachenberg, chief scientist with antivirus software lab Symantec Antivirus Research Centre...
[April 28, 2000, 7:00]
