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A surprise contender for cooling computers: lasers

One company says lasers may save energy and water. Sandia Labs is helping test the idea

National security leader Laura McGill named next director of Sandia

Laura to lead Labs effective May 1

B61-12 system production ends, sustainment begins

Weapon fully transitions into stockpile sustainment

SandiaAI chat: New tool for creating efficiencies

First in the enterprise to gain access to innovative, time-saving tool

Sandia’s El Dorado supercomputer ranked 20th fastest in world

Smaller but architecturally identical to world’s fastest, El Capitan

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