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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 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. By the end of 2005, the system should reach 100 teraflops...
[July 30, 2004, 10:25]
World's Smallest Combination Lock Gears Up - For IT Security
News One of America's top defence research institutes, Sandia National Laboratories, has unveiled a combination lock with a difference -- it's the size of a shirt button. Some of the ideas on the chip are derived from Sandia's work with mechanical...
[March 5, 2003, 15:48]
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, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, will develop a custom, radiation-hardened version of the Pentium...
[December 9, 1998, 10:42]
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]
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]
Microscopic Motion Sensor Developed
News Sandia National Laboratories has devised a motion sensor that it says is 1,000 times better than existing technology, a huge leap in performance that could help engineers study earthquakes or improve vehicle design.
[October 4, 2004, 14:20]
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]
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]
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]
NEC To Launch Water-cooled Notebooks
News In January this year, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories said he had 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...
[July 1, 2003, 7:49]
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]
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]
Chip Designers' Dream Team: 10GHz Or Bust
News As general manager and program director of the Extreme Ultraviolet LLC consortium, this 60-something executive directs the research and development efforts of a 150-member team of engineers cherry-picked from the Lawrence Livermore and Sandia...
[February 15, 2001, 14:36]
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. Cray announced on Thursday a new supercomputer that will leave its fastest counterparts in...
[November 14, 2002, 14:56]
Cray To Announce Opteron-based Supercomputer
News The new Opteron system combines technology from the company's XT3 design, initially developed for Sandia National Laboratories' Red Storm supercomputer, and the XD1 systems from Cray's acquisition of OctigaBay, said Jan Silverman, senior vice...
[November 13, 2006, 9:06]
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]
Another 'Nasa Hacker' Faces Extradition
News Computers that were compromised included machines at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Center, the Sandia National Laboratory, and the US Naval Observatory, according to prosecutors.
[December 4, 2006, 9:25]
'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]
