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Karen Devine awarded the Society of Women Engineers 2019 Prism Award

November 1, 2019 • Karen Devine has been awarded the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) 2019 Prism Award.  According to SWE, "the Prism Award recognizes a woman who has charted her own path throughout her career, providing leadership in technology fields and professional organizations along the way."   Karen has been deservedly awarded this honor based on...
Karen Devine, 2019 SWE Prism Award Winner

Sandia, PNNL, and Georgia Tech Partner on New AI Co-Design Center

October 1, 2019 • Sandia National Laboratories, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the Georgia Institute of Technology are launching a research center that combines hardware design and software development to improve artificial intelligence technologies. The Department of Energy Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) will provide $5.5 million over three years for the research effort,...
The Artificial Intelligence-focused Architectures and Algorithms concept has applications, algorithms, programming runtime and architectures all working together

Astra Supercomputer Team Wins NNSA Defense Programs Award of Excellence

October 1, 2019 • The Astra Supercomputer Team was recently awarded an NNSA Defense Programs Award of Excellence “For excellence in design, acquisition, and integration of the Astra prototype System.” These prestigious annual awards are granted to National Security Enterprise teams and individuals across the NNSA complex to recognize significant contributions to the Stockpile...
NNSA Defense Programs - Awards of Excellence

CCR Researcher Ryan Grant Honored by Queen’s University

June 1, 2019 • CCR Researcher Ryan Grant was recently recognized by his alma mater as one of the top 125 engineering alumni or faculty of Queen’s University during a celebration of the 125thanniversary of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. The award recognizes the achievements of alumni and faculty who are outstanding leaders in...
Ryan Grant

CCR Researcher Jay Lofstead Co-Authors Best Paper at HPDC’19

June 1, 2019 • CCR Researcher Jay Lofstead and his co-authors from the Illinois Institute of Technology have been awarded Best Paper at the recent 2019 ACM International Symposium on High- Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing. Their paper entitled “LABIOS: A Distributed Label-Based I/O System” describes an approach to supporting a wide variety of...
Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award

Power API and LAMMPS Win R&D 100 Awards

November 1, 2018 • Two CCR technologies have won 2018 R&D100 Awards. Each year, R&D Magazine names the 100 most technologically significant products and advancements, recognizing the winners and their organizations. Winners are selected from submissions from universities, corporations, and government labs throughout the world. This year’s winners include the Power API and LAMMPS. The Power API...
R&D 100 Awards

Astra Supercomputer is Fastest Arm-Based Machine on Top 500 List

November 1, 2018 • Sandia’s Astra is the world’s fastest Arm-based supercomputer according to the just released TOP500 list, the supercomputer industry’s standard. With a speed of 1.529 petaflops, Astra placed 203rd on a ranking of top computers announced at SC18, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, in Dallas. A petaflop is a unit...
Astra Supercomputer

Astra – An Arm-Based Large-Scale Advanced Architecture Prototype Platform

June 1, 2018 • Astra, one of the first supercomputers to use processors based on the Arm architecture in a large-scale high-performance computing platform, is being deployed at Sandia National Laboratories.  Astra is the first of a potential series of advanced architecture prototype platforms, which will be deployed as part of the Vanguard program...
Astra Supercomputer
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