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Statistical earthquake models inform understanding of material degradation at the nanoscale
December 10, 2024 • Muscovite mica, used in many materials science applications, is known for its extremely flat and flaky layers, making it highly susceptible to hostile environmental conditions. (Photo by Anastasia Ilgen) Understanding how materials will interact with their environment is crucial when selecting components for engineering applications. To help inform material selection, geologists...

Sandia deploys cutting-edge Cerebras CS-3 testbed for AI workloads
November 12, 2024 • Technician positioning Cerebras wafer enclosure for installation in Kingfisher. Photo taken by Craig Fritz. In a partnership just reaching two years, Sandia and Cerebras Systems have unveiled a cluster composed of four Cerebras CS-3 systems to be used as a Sandia testbed, that will expand research into AI workloads for...
Technician positioning Cerebras wafer enclosure for installation in Kingfisher.

Sandia and Google unleash new possibilities in quantum computing
August 21, 2024 • Electronic stopping power calculations involve simulating the passage of a single ion (blue arrow) passing through a degenerate plasma background (red and yellow). The passage of the ion kicks up excitations of the plasma in its wake (green), slowing the ion down. This visualization is from a classical simulation executed...

Sandia scientist testifies how AI is helping with science innovation
July 23, 2024 • Sandia’s Jennifer Gaudioso testifies during a Senate committee hearing June 4 that DOE data and supercomputing capabilities position U.S. national labs to shape future AI initiatives. (Image captured from hearing video) Sandia’s Jennifer Gaudioso testified before Congress on how scientists at U.S. national laboratories are poised to elevate artificial intelligence...

Transformational capabilities demonstrated by Sandia at AI Expo
June 17, 2024 • Danny Gomez from Sandia watches as Senator Martin Heinrich experiences the immersive extended reality environment of JARVIS. (Photo courtesy of John Feddema) Ten national laboratories, including Sandia, shared one of the largest booths at the AI Expo for National Competitiveness from May 7-8 in Washington, D.C. The new conference provided...

Sandia partners with NVIDIA to advance memory technologies for high performance computing
May 8, 2024 • Concept rendering of advanced memory packaging. (Image courtesy of NVIDIA) Sandia National Laboratories has announced a new project with NVIDIA to pursue critical research and development of memory technologies. This collaborative agreement between the three National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los...
Concept rendering of advanced memory packaging

Sandia partners with NextSilicon and Penguin Solutions to deliver ‘first of its kind’ runtime reconfigurable accelerator technology
May 8, 2024 • This printed circuit board assembly displays the Maverick ASIC and supporting circuitry. (Photo courtesy of NextSilicon) Sandia National Laboratories, leading a tri-lab consortium with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), announces a partnership with NextSilicon Inc. and Penguin Solutions to deliver the next Advanced Architecture Prototype...
A computer board featuring first of its kind runtime reconfigurable accelerator technology

Neuromorphic computing for nuclear deterrence solutions: Sandia partners with German startup SpiNNcloud
May 8, 2024 • New server board integrating 48 SpiNNaker2 chips through a seamless energy-proportional infrastructure.(Image courtesy of SpiNNcloud) Sandia National Laboratories has announced a partnership with AI and neuromorphic computing company, SpiNNcloud. Leveraging a next generation system, SpiNNaker2, this partnership seeks to advance neuromorphic architecture. Funded through NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program,...

Out of the desert, a quantum powerhouse rises
April 23, 2024 • They knew it was an ambitious goal. But by the time they announced it in 2022, Sandia and The University of New Mexico — two of the state’s largest research institutions — had been working out their strategy for more than a year. Read more about quantum powerhouse
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)

AI center to combine hardware, software for practical gains
April 23, 2024 • Sandia and Pacific Northwest national laboratories and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta are launching a research center that combines hardware and software design and development to improve artificial intelligence technologies that will ultimately benefit the public. Read more about AI center
Applications algorithms, programming runtime and architectures will all work synergistically in the new ARIAA center. (Image by Robert Gioiosa and Siva Rajamanickam)

Strong and flexible interlocking metasurfaces
April 22, 2024 • Interlocking metasurfaces are a recent Sandia-invented joining technology that may replace other structural joining methods, such as bolts and adhesives. Much like LEGO® bricks (see Figure 1), they are patterned, modular surfaces that constrain motion between two bodies when assembled into a larger structure. Unlike LEGO bricks, they are designed...

Ensure machine learning results are accurate
April 22, 2024 • Computational simulation, or CompSim, models are digital prototypes of something a researcher is interested in building or testing. These prototypes make it easier and faster for the researcher to design a product that accomplishes a specific goal without first having to build and test a long list of physical prototypes....

1.15 billion artificial neurons arrive at Sandia
April 22, 2024 • Sandia received a brain-based computing system from Intel Corp. that has 1.15 billion artificial neurons, aiming to advance large-scale brain-inspired computing. This innovative system, ten times faster and denser than its predecessor, holds potential for various applications from scientific simulations to societal enhancements like smarter soldier gear and rapid medical...

Future hypersonics could be artificially intelligent
April 22, 2024 • A test launch for a hypersonic weapon — a long-range missile that flies a mile per second and faster — takes weeks of planning. So, while the U.S. and other states are racing to deploy hypersonic technologies, it remains uncertain how useful the systems will be against urgent, mobile or...

Sandia partners with other labs to bolster nuclear security
April 10, 2024 • Sandia is collaborating with international partners to collect data to better protect nuclear sites from cyberattacks and physical intrusions. As part of the multiyear research project with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Sandia developed software to emulate a cyberattack on a site’s central alarm station during exercises, with the goal of improving...
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)

Cloud-resolving climate model meets world’s fastest supercomputer
April 10, 2024 • Focused on improving the accuracy of climate predictions, a Sandia-led computational team recently achieved a major milestone with a cloud-resolving model they ran on Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputer. Read more about Cloud-resolving climate model
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)

Supercomputer Stout brews breakthroughs
April 10, 2024 • Stout, a new Sandia supercomputer, secured its place on the Top500 computers list that was released Nov. 13. Boasting a performance of 8.9 petaflops, Stout claimed the No. 87 spot on the renowned benchmark list of the world’s fastest computers. Read more about Supercomputer Stout brews breakthroughs
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)

Powerful Sandia machine-learning model shows diamond melting at high pressure
April 10, 2024 • A Sandia supercomputer simulation model called SNAP, or Spectral Neighbor Analysis Potential, that rapidly predicts the behavior of billions of interacting atoms has captured the melting of diamond when compressed by extreme pressures and temperatures. Read more about the Powerful Sandia machine-learning model
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)
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