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High-performance computing at Los Alamos announces milestone for key/value middleware

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

At Los Alamos, a supercomputer epicenter where 'big data set' really means something, a data middleware project has achieved a milestone for specialized information organization and storage. The Multi-dimensional Hashed Indexed Middleware project at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently achieved 1,782,105,749 key/value inserts per second into a globally-ordered key space on Los Alamos National Laboratory's Moonlight supercomputer.

Get ready for the computers of the future

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia experts expect multiple computing device-level technologies in the future, rather than one dominant architecture. About a dozen possible next-generation candidates exist, including tunnel FETs (field effect transistors, in which the output current is controlled by a variable electric field), carbon nanotubes, superconductors and fundamentally new approaches, such as quantum computing and brain-inspired computing.

Planting the 'SEEDS' of solar technology in the home

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In an effort to better understand what persuades people to buy photovoltaic systems for their homes, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have gathered data on consumer motivations that can feed sophisticated computer models and thus lead to greater use of solar energy.

Meeting: Department of Energy's SunShot Grand Challenge Summit

Power plant emissions verified remotely at Four Corners sites

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from two coal-fired power plants in the Four Corners area of northwest New Mexico, the largest point source of pollution in America, were measured remotely by a Los Alamos National Laboratory team. Led by Laboratory senior scientist Manvendra Dubey, the study is the first to show that space-based techniques can successfully verify international regulations on fossil energy emissions.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: LDRD

Renewables, other energy issues to be focus of enhanced Sandia, SINTEF collaboration

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A decades-long partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and the Norwegian research organization SINTEF (Stiftelsen for industriell og teknisk forskning) will now tackle energy challenges such as renewable energy integration, electric grid modernization, gas technologies and algae-based biofuels, under an expanded agreement.

Engineering better machines and buildings by understanding mechanics of materials

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories is working to fill gaps in the fundamental understanding of materials science through an ambitious long-term, multidisciplinary project called Predicting Performance Margins, or PPM. From the atomic level to full-scale components, the research links variability in materials' atomic configurations and microstructures with how actual parts perform.

Widespread hydrogen fueling infrastructure goal of H2FIRST project

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Established by the Energy Department's Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations' availability and reliability.

Funder: DOE/Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Airport security officers at TSA gaining insight from Sandia human behavior studies

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A recent Sandia National Laboratories study offers insight into how a federal transportation security officer's thought process can influence decisions made during airport baggage screening, findings that are helping the Transportation Security Administration improve the performance of its security officers.

Funder: US Transportation Security Administration

Pocket-sized anthrax detector aids global agriculture

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A credit-card-sized anthrax detection cartridge developed at Sandia National Laboratories and recently licensed to a small business makes testing safer, easier, faster and cheaper.

Los Alamos physicist honored with E.O. Lawrence Award

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist John Sarrao is being honored by the US Department of Energy with the 2013 Ernest O. Lawrence Award in Condensed Matter and Materials Sciences.

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