LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories has selected nuclear deterrence expert Toby Townsend to lead its California campus, effective immediately. Townsend will serve as Associate Laboratories Director for Sandia’s Integrated Security Solutions Division. In this role he will oversee operations at the Livermore campus, manage the California Nuclear Deterrence programs, direct Sandia’s Energy and Homeland […]
Sandia Labs’ Doug Kothe: The Mission-Driven Rewards of Working at the U.S. National Labs
June 6, 2025 by
We recently talked with Doug Kothe, who has served in senior management ….
SpiNNcloud Deploys Brain-Inspired Supercomputer at Sandia
June 5, 2025 by
SpiNNcloud announced that Sandia National Laboratories has deployed its SpiNNaker2 brain-inspired supercomputer, “marking a significant milestone in the advancement of computing for national security applications,” the Dresden, German-based ….
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Dr. Sharlotte Kramer — Pushing Forward in Materials Modeling
April 30, 2025 by
Dr. Sharlotte Kramer is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and researcher in Sandia’s Structural Mechanics Laboratory. She first ….
HPC News Bytes 20250407: Tariffs and the Technology Industry, Intel-TSMC Deal?, DARPA Taps Wafer Scale, Sandia and Laser-Based Cooling, Optical I/O News
April 7, 2025 by
Good April day to you! It was a wild week for more than the HPC-AI sector last week, here’s a brief (7:39) look at some key developments: U.S. tariffs, the technology sector and advanced chips, Intel-TSMC ….
Sandia Labs Tests Laser-Based Photonic Data Center Cooling
April 3, 2025 by
Minnesota-based startup Maxwell Labs has entered into an R&D agreement with Sandia and the University of New Mexico to demonstrate laser-based photonic cooling for computer chips. The company is working to develop the new technology to regulate the temperature of chips, while aiming to lower the power ….
Sandia Names Laura McGill Labs Director
March 6, 2025 by
Laura McGill will become Sandia’s 17th Labs director, effective May 1. McGill, who has served as deputy Labs director for Nuclear Deterrence and chief technology officer since January 2021, succeeds James Peery, who is retiring at the end of April.
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Christian Trott – Lowering the Barriers to HPC-AI Entry
February 28, 2025 by
“HPC systems have always been hard to leverage well, but with GPUs and other accelerators in the mix it has become truly daunting. Lowering the barrier to entry … on Kokkos, the ISO C++ committee, and the High Performance Software Foundation is what ….”
Sandia Rolls out Custom Instance of ChatGPT — SandiaAI Chat
February 6, 2025 by
In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories began providing its employees with a large language model chatbot, called SandiaAI Chat, which the lab said is the first facility within the U.S. nuclear security enterprise to do so, enabling Sandia staff to ask sensitive, unclassified questions. Rather than buying a corporate ….
Los Alamos and OpenAI Partner on National Security
February 2, 2025 by
Los Alamos National Laboratory has entered a partnership with OpenAI to install its latest o-series models — which the lab said are capable of expert reasoning for complex scientific problems — on the lab’s Venado supercomputer, which uses NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, to conduct national security research. “As threats to the nation become ….
