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 ….
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Dr. Sharlotte Kramer — Pushing Forward in Materials Modeling
April 30, 2025 by
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 ….
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Erin Acquesta, Extroverted Mathematician and Emerging Leader
January 10, 2025 by
In our ongoing Vanguards of HPC-AI series, we now feature Erin Acquesta, who holds a PhD in mathematics from North Carolina State University. She got involved in HPC-AI in 2014as a data scientist at Lenovo. In 2016, she joined the team at Sandia National ….
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Siva Rajamanickam — AI for Science That ‘Outpaces Predictions’
December 19, 2024 by
“I am passionate about working in the broad areas of machine learning for science, codesign of algorithms and architectures, performance portable algorithms, and combinatorial scientific computing. I focus on ….”
HPC News Bytes 20241118: On the Scene at SC24, TSMC and the CHIPS Act, Cerebras at Sandia
November 18, 2024 by
Good morning to you from SC24 in Atlanta. Here’s a quick (5:33) run-through of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: The SC24 conference starts today; TSMC, the CHIPS Act and semiconductor demand; Sandia National Labs teams with Cerebras.
