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US Report: Intel Supplies DOE
News Intel will license the design to the DOE's Sandia National Laboratories, which is responsible for microelectronics research and development. Sandia National Laboratories, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , the Air Force Research Laboratory , and...
[December 9, 1998, 10:42]
Hackers Set Off On A Rampage
News Initial victims have included the Federal Aviation Administration, the US Department of Defense and Sandia National Laboratories. Sandia National Laboratories spokesman Chris Miller confirmed that a page maintained by the lab had briefly been defaced.
[May 3, 2002, 10:33]
Cray Supercomputer Goes Dual-core
News The Red Storm computer, a machine Cray will start building at Sandia National Laboratories this year, will be upgraded in 2005 with dual-core Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices. That machine, like IBM's Blue Gene/L now under...
[July 30, 2004, 10:25]
Top 500 Supercomputers Announced
News The only two other systems to surpass 100 teraflops were also made by Cray: Oak Ridge National Laboratories' Jaguar, at 101.7 teraflops, and Sandia National Laboratories' Red Storm, at 101.4 teraflops.
[June 27, 2007, 10:38]
IBM Supercomputer Looms Large
News Earlier, AMD -- known mostly for building processors popular with consumers -- announced it is building a system at Sandia National Laboratories. The system is geared to supercomputer customers, such as pharmaceutical companies or national...
[November 18, 2002, 8:54]
Retinal Chipset Gives Sight To The Blind
News The aim is to bring a blind person to the point where he or she can read, move around objects in the house, and do basic household chores," said Sandia Labs project leader Kurt Wessendorf in a statement.
[September 18, 2002, 10:29]
IBM Cements Its Supercomputing Dominance
News AMD, built the Opteron processors used in the number 10 system, a new machine called Red Storm built by Cray for Sandia National Laboratories. It was clocked at 15.2 teraflops, but Sandia spokesman said the full system isn't expected to be running...
[June 22, 2005, 15:00]
IBM To Build Fastest Supercomputers To Date
News The program, with a budget in the billions of dollars, was embraced by the nation's three national laboratories -- Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -- as a way they could...
[November 19, 2002, 9:53]
Microsoft To Open Source? Not Likely...
News Instead, the more than 50 licenses it has with universities and government labs -- including the Sandia National Laboratories and the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications -- have enabled researchers working on "cutting-edge computer...
[April 9, 1999, 15:07]
AMD's Opteron Gets Supercomputer Boost
News In a deal that should buoy both computing companies, Sandia National Laboratories will install a $90m (£57m) supercomputer from Cray that will run on Opteron processors from AMD. Red Storm "will allow modeling and simulation of complex problems...
[October 22, 2002, 7:36]
Tiny Pipes Deliver The Big Chill
News A researcher at Sandia National Laboratories says he has created technology to disperse the heat generated within laptop computers more efficiently than today's cooling systems. Sandia's Mike Rightley said he has developed tiny liquid-filled pipes...
[January 23, 2003, 9:26]
Cray's Nuclear Simulator To Hit Mass Market
News Due out sometime in 2004, the supercomputers will utilise Cray's MPP (massively parallel processing) architecture, which it is employing in the design of Red Storm, a 40-teraflop (40 trillion calculations per second) device ordered by the DOE's...
[October 27, 2003, 15:40]
Cray's King-of-the-hill Supercomputer
News Aside from creating the X1 systems, Cray is also under contract to build a supercomputer for Sandia National Laboratories that is capable of 40 teraflops. Spain's National Institute of Meteorology, for example, has placed an $8.4m order for an X1.
[November 14, 2002, 14:56]
How To Build Your Own Supercomputer, HP-style
News Other clusters, like the US' ASCI Red at Sandia National Laboratories, are comprised of heavily modified parts. At a technical session last summer, scientists from HP's own labs in Grenoble started talking to experts at the local INRIA Rhone-Alps...
[October 4, 2001, 17:12]
HP Moves Up In Supercomputer List
News AMD, known mostly for building processors popular with consumers, is building a system at Sandia National Laboratories. The new systems, being built at Los Alamos National Laboratory, bumped IBM's ASCI White two spots down the list.
[November 15, 2002, 8:21]
AMD Climbs Supercomputing League Table
News AMD's Opteron processors are used in Cray's Red Storm system, built at Sandia National Laboratories, which has climbed to the number-two position with a speed of 101.4 teraflops. Four researchers — Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim in...
[November 14, 2006, 8:41]
FBI Criticised For Ignoring Early Code Red Warnings
News A US Department of Energy security research lab, known as Sandia National Laboratories, spotted the initial worm on its systems in February, March and May 2001. The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC) had received earlier reports...
[September 6, 2001, 13:18]
'Deceptive Duo' Suspects Hit In FBI Raid
News The hacked sites have included those of the Defense Department and the Sandia National Laboratories, which is associated with the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. As first reported by CNET News.com, agents raided...
[May 16, 2002, 9:11]
US Government Researches 'smart' Gun
News Earlier, the National Institute of Justice funded the Sandia National Laboratories, to the tune of $500,000 to study the problem of firearms being taken away from police officers, identifying the extent to which officers are assaulted and killed...
[October 22, 2002, 16:01]
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]
