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Artificial Intelligence at Sandia

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Introduction

Sandia delivers essential science and technology to resolve the most challenging national security issues. Science-based, systems-engineering solutions are delivered through ground-breaking work in secure AI, computing co-design, and scientific machine learning.

Sandia is partnering with industry, government, and academia to advance AI capabilities through research, development, and deployment. These collaborations facilitate support of DOE’s AI initiatives, including the transfer and commercialization of award-winning AI technology, and the training of future leaders who must anticipate and tackle problems facing the nation.

Sandia AI News Releases

From early R&D to mature technology

Advancing memory technologies through strategic partnerships HARNESSING INNOVATION - This memory tester probe card with the...

Team leads from Sandia, Los Alamos, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories stand in front of Sandia’s Computer Science Research Institute for a workshop to collaborate in person. Twenty two individuals are photographed.
The Advanced Memory Technology program kicks off round three with Cerebras

THE TRI-LABS AND CEREBRAS MEET AT SANDIA – The program and team leads from Sandia, Los...

Brain-based computing for ND solutions

New neuromorphic computing system arrives at Sandia THE HARDWARE BEHIND THE BRAIN — NERL Braunfels consists...

Sandia scientist testifies how AI is helping with science innovation

Sandia’s Jennifer Gaudioso testified before Congress on how scientists at U.S. national laboratories are poised to...

Transformational capabilities demonstrated by Sandia at AI Expo

Ten national laboratories, including Sandia, shared one of the largest booths at the AI Expo for...

Postdoctoral researcher Caitlin McCowan inspects pieces of silicon at the atomic level. She uses a scanning tunneling microscope to spot imperfections as part of a quantum research project at Sandia. (Photo by Craig Fritz)
Out of the desert, a quantum powerhouse rises

They knew it was an ambitious goal. But by the time they announced it in 2022,...

Applications algorithms, programming runtime and architectures will all work synergistically in the new ARIAA center. (Image by Robert Gioiosa and Siva Rajamanickam)
AI center to combine hardware, software for practical gains

Sandia and Pacific Northwest national laboratories and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta are launching...

THE NEW FRONTIER — The world’s fastest supercomputer, Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has reached 1.1 exaflops, breaking the exascale speed barrier — a threshold of a quintillion calculations per second — and ranking number one on the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. (Photo by Calos Jones, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Sandia cloud-resolving climate model meets world's fastest supercomuter: Simulations show a year's climate in a research day

Focused on improving the accuracy of climate predictions, a Sandia-led computational team recently achieved a major...

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SCREAM wins Gordon Bell climate prize at SC23 convention Cloud-resolving Sandia model shows unprecedented speed and accuracy

Running a model of the global atmosphere with unprecedentedly high resolution on the world’s first exascale...

What if the secret to your brain's elusive computing power is its randomness?

If you’ve ever asked a car mechanic how long a part will last until it breaks,...

Strong and flexible interlocking metasurfaces

Interlocking metasurfaces are a recent Sandia-invented joining technology that may replace other structural joining methods, such...

Ensure machine learning results are accurate

Computational simulation, or CompSim, models are digital prototypes of something a researcher is interested in building...

1.15 billion artificial neurons arrive at Sandia

Sandia received a brain-based computing system from Intel Corp. that has 1.15 billion artificial neurons, aiming...

Future hypersonics could be artificially intelligent

A test launch for a hypersonic weapon — a long-range missile that flies a mile per...

Can the insect brain help us develop smarter, faster AI?

Dragonflies intercept their prey with 95% accuracy. Understanding how their brains function could be the key...

DUAL ATTACK — Sandia global security staff works with a team from a private Canadian nuclear power plant during a cyberattack exercise on May 17. The mock cyberattack was followed by a simulated physical intrusion. The exercise was the culmination of two-year project involving Sandia, Idaho National Laboratory and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. (Photo by Craig Fritz)
Sandia partners with other labs to bolster nuclear security

Sandia is collaborating with international partners to collect data to better protect nuclear sites from cyberattacks...

THE NEW FRONTIER — The world’s fastest supercomputer, Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has reached 1.1 exaflops, breaking the exascale speed barrier — a threshold of a quintillion calculations per second — and ranking number one on the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. (Photo by Calos Jones, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Cloud-resolving climate model meets world’s fastest supercomputer

Focused on improving the accuracy of climate predictions, a Sandia-led computational team recently achieved a major...

STOUT SUCCESS — Sandia supercomputer Stout has earned the 87th spot on the Top500 computers list that was released Nov. 13. (Photo illustration by Craig Fritz)
Supercomputer Stout brews breakthroughs

Stout, a new Sandia supercomputer, secured its place on the Top500 computers list that was released...

IMAGE SEGMENTED — An illustration used by Sandia researchers to show the uncertainty of drawing boundaries in scanned images used for high-consequence computer simulations. The gray-scale image on the left is a scan of material used as a thermal barrier. The illustrated image on the right shows the material segmented into two classes (blue and purple). The black lines show one possible interface boundary between the two classes of material. The yellow region depicts the segmentation uncertainty, meaning the black lines could be drawn anywhere within that area and still be valid. (Graphic by Sandia)
Sandia 3D-imaging workflow has benefits for medicine, electric cars and nuclear deterrence

Sandia researchers have created a method of processing 3D images for computer simulations that could have...

DIAMOND BREAKDOWN — This multibillion atom simulation of shockwave propagation into initially uncompressed diamond (blue) uses Sandia’s high-accuracy SNAP, or Spectral Neighbor Analysis Potential, model to predict that the final state (orange) is formed by recrystallization of amorphous cracks (red) that take shape in the light blue, green and yellow compressed material. (Computer image by Aidan Thompson)
Powerful Sandia machine-learning model shows diamond melting at high pressure

A Sandia supercomputer simulation model called SNAP, or Spectral Neighbor Analysis Potential, that rapidly predicts the...

SIMULATED WALKS — A diffusion model on the Intel Loihi platform based on data from Sandia algorithms working. (Graphic by Brad Aimone)
Neuromorphic computing widely applicable, Sandia researchers show

With the insertion of a little math, Sandia researchers have shown that neuromorphic computers, which synthetically...

SPACE-BOUND BOARD — Thomas Bradshaw, electrical engineer and flight software lead, inspects a computer board for an upcoming remote sensing mission designed to demonstrate next-generation high-performance computing in space. The team used Valhalla, a Python-based high-performance computing program developed at Sandia, to quickly generate the concept design and estimate mission performance for the payload. (Photo by Craig Fritz)
Build-a-satellite program could fast track national security space missions

Satellites equipped with remote sensing technology execute many critical national security missions, from detecting explosions to...

REACHING NEW HEIGHTS — START HBCU partners, Alabama A&M University faculty and students cut the ribbon to new artificial intelligence cage in November. (Photo courtesy of Alabama A&M University)
Sandia partners with Alabama A&M to open AI cage

Nestled on the Alabama A&M University campus lies a state-of-the-art facility that allows faculty and students...

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Explore capabilities in popular AI models

With a couple thousand years and modern science, humanity now knows quite a bit more about...

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