Top Stories and Press Releases
(Chronological order from most recent to oldest.)
Exascale Computing Requires Chips, Power and Money
Wired News February 22, 2008
Cray and Sandia Announce Agreement to Upgrade “Red Storm” Supercomputer to 284 Teraflops
Cray News Release February 6, 2008
Top500 List
November 2007
Cray Supercomputer at Sandia Helps Researchers Discover Origin of Mysterious Glass Found in King Tut's Tomb
Cray News Release July 31, 2007
Top500 List
June 2007
Red Storm upgrade boosts Sandia supercomputer to #2 in world
Sandia Lab News, November 24, 2006
ASCeNews from the NNSA ASC Headquarters
Premiere Issue, October 2006
SC06 Call for Posters
Red Storm is ranked the world’s most efficient supercomputer in two of six categories
March 2006
Top500 List
November 2005
Computer facility designed to help university faculty, students and Sandia scientists “harness the power of computing”
Groundbreaking for the CSRI was held at Sandia Science and Technology Park, located adjacent to Sandia Labs. The building is scheduled to be completed in early 2006
(Sandia Press Release, August 11, 2005)
Bill Gates to Deliver Keynote at SC|05 Conference
July 27, 2005
Senate Report 1009-084 - ENERGY AND WATER APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2006
June 21, 2005
House Report 109-086 - ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2006
March 23, 2005
Artist/scientist ‘dream team’ assembles with goal of capturing and displaying gigapixel-sized images
(Sandia Press Release December 9, 2004)
NNSA Supercomputers Among the Fastest in the World Agency’s labs and programs are pioneering supercomputing
(NNSA Press Release November 17, 2004—PDF)
Alexander Applauds House Action on Supercomputing Bill Legislation now goes to President for his signature
Winners Announced For HPCwire Readers & Editors Choice Awards
(From HPCwire November 5, 2004)
Sandia’s Tamara Kolda Wins PECASE Award
(HPCwire story September 20, 2004)
September 2004 issue of the NNSA Newsletter (PDF)
Sandia work and people are mentioned in several stories, and Sandia features are on page 6 (Red Storm supercomputer) and page 8 (Cooperative Monitoring Center).
Post-Cold War U.S. Nuclear Strategy: A Search for Technical and Policy Common Ground
(Rep. David Hobson's remarks August 11, 2004—Audio files available at this site.)
Sandia Labs’ Supercomputer Based on Plan Hatched in 1922
(From the Albuquerque Journal August 30, 2004.)
Cray Inc. Announces $3.5 Million Order for Red Storm Product
(Cray Inc. Press Release July 29, 2004)
Sandia supercomputer to be world’s fastest, yet smaller and less expensive than any competitor
(Sandia Press Release July 27, 2004)
Long Awaited Red Storm supercomputer rising at Sandia
(From Sandia Lab News July 23,2004)
Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (DISL) dedicated at Sandia/California
(Sandia Press Release June 10, 2004)
Secretary Abraham helps launch new JCEL facility
(From Sandia Lab News May 14, 2004)
Joint Computational Engineering Lab up and running
(From Sandia Lab News April 30, 2004)
Sandia ‘Computing district’ thrives in Area 1
(From Sandia Lab News April 30, 2004)
Reports will urge supercomputer funding increase
(EE Times, August 11, 2003)
Annual ASCI Alliance Center site visits by the ASAP-CRT representatives
ASCI teams among recipients of Employee Recognition Awards
(From Sandia Lab News July 11, 2003)
- Be There Now: Interactive Remote Visualization Hardware Team
- SC2002 ASCI Tri-Lab Networking Team
- Salinas Development and 2002 Gordon Bell Award Team
ASCI teams to receive this year’s NNSA Weapons Award of Excellence
(From Sandia Lab News June 27, 2003)
- Calore and Presto Weapon Safety Codes Development and Demonstration Team
- Computer Code Evaluation Group
- SIMBA Software Development Team
- W76-1/MK4A JT4A-2B Normal Environment and Model Validation Test Team