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Open Collaboration and Research Capabilities on the LVOC/CREATE/High Performance Computing Innovation Center

McIlroy, Andrew M.

While Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) have remained committed to their core nuclear weapons (NW) mission, the world has changed greatly since the opening of these national labs in the mid-20th century. During this era, U.S. universities were ranked as the top science centers in the world in essentially all fields, and the national laboratories were able to recruit the top graduates - who were predominantly U.S. citizens - from the nation's best academic institutions.

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TYPE Other Report YEAR 2015
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A brief history of Sandia National Laboratories and the Department of Energy%3CU%2B2019%3Es Office of Science : interplay between science, technology, and mission

Tsao, Jeffrey Y.; Simmons, J.A.; Collis, Samuel S.; McIlroy, Andrew M.

In 1957, Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) initiated its first programs in fundamental science, in support of its primary nuclear weapons mission. In 1974, Sandia initiated programs in fundamental science supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Science (DOE-SC). These latter programs have grown to the point where, today in 2011, support of Sandia's programs in fundamental science is dominated by that Office. In comparison with Sandia's programs in technology and mission applications, however, Sandia's programs in fundamental science are small. Hence, Sandia's fundamental science has been strongly influenced by close interactions with technology and mission applications. In many instances, these interactions have been of great mutual benefit, with synergies akin to a positive 'Casimir's spiral' of progress. In this report, we review the history of Sandia's fundamental science programs supported by the Office of Science. We present: (a) a technical and budgetary snapshot of Sandia's current programs supported by the various suboffices within DOE-SC; (b) statistics of highly-cited articles supported by DOE-SC; (c) four case studies (ion-solid interactions, combustion science, compound semiconductors, advanced computing) with an emphasis on mutually beneficial interactions between science, technology, and mission; and (d) appendices with key memos and reminiscences related to fundamental science at Sandia.

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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2011
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