A new method to make non-volatile computer memory may have unlocked a problem been holding back machine learning and has the potential to revolutionize technologies like voice recognition, image processing and autonomous driving, according to a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories. Working with collaborators from the University of Michigan, the Sandia team published […]
Sandia Labs Fellow Named to Quantum Computing Advisory Committee
October 13, 2020 by
Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 13, 2020 — Sandia National Laboratories Fellow Gil Herrera has been appointed to the newly established U.S. National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee. Herrera is one of two committee members representing the Department of Energy national laboratories. He joins 20 others from government, industry and academia tasked with advising the nation’s highest offices on […]
NNSA Purchasing $105M HPE Cray EX Supercomputer, to be Sited at Los Alamos
October 1, 2020 by
Los Alamos National Laboratory has announced a contract for a new HPE supercomputer to be installed in spring of 2022 with quadrupled performance over the existing system for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The $105 million HPE Cray EX supercomputer, called Crossroads, will replace Cray’s Trinity system and will be […]
Video: Exascale for Earth System Modeling of Storms, Droughts, Sea Level Rise
September 24, 2020 by
In this interview, award winning scientist Mark Taylor at Sandia National Laboratories’ Center for Computing Research talks about the use of exascale-class supercomputers – to be delivered to three U.S. Department of Energy national labs in 2021 – for large-scale weather and water resource forecasting. Taylor is chief computational scientist for the DOE’s Energy Exascale […]
Combustion Pioneer Jacqueline Chen Named Department of Energy Fellow
September 10, 2020 by
Jacqueline Chen, whose work on fundamental turbulence-chemistry interactions in combustion helped advance the design of automotive, gas turbine and jet engines, was selected by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science as a distinguished scientist fellow — one of only eight researchers in the nation to hold the distinction. Chen, a senior scientist in the […]
NNSA to Hold Nuclear Security Enterprise Virtual Job Fair August 26
August 17, 2020 by
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) will host a Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) virtual job fair Wednesday, Aug. 26, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (EDT) to help fill more than 600 open positions. The virtual job fair will include hiring officials from NNSA and its National Laboratories, plants, and sites […]
Let’s Talk Exascale: Forecasting Water Resources and Severe Weather with Greater Confidence
June 26, 2020 by
In this episode of Let’s Talk Exascale, Mark Taylor of Sandia National Laboratories talks about using exascale supercomputers for severe weather and water resource forecasting. A sub-project within the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) called E3SM-MMF is working to improve the ability to simulate the water cycle and the processes around precipitation. Our guest on the latest episode of ECP’s podcast, Let’s Talk Exascale, is Mark Taylor of Sandia National Laboratories, principal investigator of the E3SM-MMF project.
Sandia Selects SoftIron File and Object Storage for Stria Cluster
June 16, 2020 by
Sandia National Laboratories Vanguard program has selected SoftIron, Ltd., to provide supplemental file and object storage for Sandia’s ARM-based Stria high performance computing cluster.
Stria supports the petascale Astra supercomputer – which Sandia said is the fastest ARM-based system on the TOP500 listing of the world’s most powerful computers – as a development system for preparing software releases and codes to be used on Astra.
