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Roadrunner supercomputer puts research at a new scale
June 12 — Less than a week after Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop/s data-processing speeds, Los Alamos researchers are already using the computer to mimic extremely complex neurological processes.
Language of a fly proves surprising
March 10 — A group of researchers has developed a novel way to view the world through the eyes of a common fly and partially decode the insect's reactions to changes in the world around it.
ASPECT plane deploys to Southern California wildfires
October 26 — At 6:30 (Mountain Daylight Time) Thursday morning, the ASPECT plane – a one-of-a-kind emergency response tool operated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and supported by Los Alamos National Laboratory – deployed to the wildfires of Southern California.
Contemplating the far away future of computing
March 20 — An unprecedented and multidisciplinary group of world-renowned scientists will gather this week in Santa Fe looking far into the future for the most promising ideas about what computers and computing may be like many decades from now.
Storms and society: where things go wrong
February 26 — Tying images of a powerful ice storm to scenes of downed power lines and darkened homes does not take a great leap of imagination - but the science of their interrelationships is more complex.
New computer model to track contaminants
October 17 — A powerful new massively parallel computer model for studying subsurface processes in the Earth will be developed by a team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists.
Los Alamos licenses avian flu modeling and simulation software
October 12 — Santa Fe-based CIVA (The Company for Information Visualization and Analysis) signed an agreement to license Los Alamos National Laboratory's epidemiological modeling and simulation system, called EpiCast.
Supercomputing satellite hits the road
August 31 — A satellite smaller than an armchair is departing Los Alamos National Laboratory this week, heading for a last phase of testing before its December launch.
Seeing the unseen universe
July 31 — A new method for incorporating astronomical observational data into computer simulations promises to be a significant advance in enabling future cosmological surveys aimed at understanding dark energy and dark matter.
Space-based supercomputer in design at Los Alamos
April 26 — Los Alamos National Laboratory today announced funding of a new space payload which dramatically increases on-orbit computational capabilities.
Mathematical code for inverses wins top prize for Manzano High student team at Los Alamos Supercomputing Challenge
April 25 — A pair of budding mathematicians from Albuquerque Manzano High School who wrote mathematical codes typical of those used in cryptography and mathematical error correction captured the top prize in the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge.
Avian flu modeled on supercomputer, explores vaccine and isolation options for thwarting a pandemic
April 3 — Using supercomputers to respond to a potential national health emergency, scientists have developed a simulation model that makes stark predictions about the possible future course of an avian influenza pandemic, given today’s environment of world-wide connectivity.
Los Alamos-led team to sequence entire NT biological database on greengene distributed supercomputer
November 18 — Award-winning Los Alamos National Laboratory-developed software is helping researchers here and elsewhere better understand a database of biological information and enable a plethora of biological studies from organism "barcoding" to gene function and evolution.
Los Alamos tracks influenza genetic codes
November 4 — In the same way that the FBI archives the fingerprints of criminals nationwide, Los Alamos National Laboratory archives the genetic codes for influenza strains worldwide.
Los Alamos, UC, Santa Cruz to form partnership for scientific data management
November 1 — The University of California, Santa Cruz and Los Alamos National Laboratory have agreed to establish a new collaborative institute for research and education in the area of scientific data management.
Largest computational biology simulation mimics life's most essential nanomachine
October 19 — Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have set a new world's record by performing the first million-atom computer simulation in biology. Using the "Q Machine" supercomputer, Los Alamos computer scientists have created a molecular simulation of the cell's protein-making structure, the ribosome.
Los Alamos experts' book explores advances in reconfigurable computing
June 22 — The field of computing has been transformed by the concept of widgets called Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), integrated circuits combining logic and memory, that can process digital information.
Cancer study earns top honors for ABQ Academy's Baca, Shah at Los Alamos Supercomputing Challenge
April 26 — A pair of budding computer geniuses from Albuquerque Academy who designed software to probe how cancer develops captured the top prize Tuesday during awards ceremonies for the New Mexico High School Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge held at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge awards at Los Alamos on April 26
April 20 — More than 120 New Mexico high-school students will be at Los Alamos National Laboratory Monday and Tuesday (April 25-26) for judging and awards in the 15th annual New Mexico Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge Expo.
Los Alamos developing new eclipse-based tools for high-performance parallel computers
April 12 — Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Eclipse Foundation today announced the Parallel Tools Platform Project, a new Eclipse Technology project aimed at creating better open source software tools for parallel computers.
Optical fibers and a theory of things that go bump in the light
September 14 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a theory describing light pulse dynamics in optical fibers that explains how an interplay of noise, line imperfections and pulse collisions lead to the deterioration of information in optical fiber lines. The theory will help to enhance the performance necessary for high-speed optical communication systems like video on demand and ultra-broadband Internet, and the research has helped establish a new field of inquiry -- the statistical physics of optical communications.
Mapping the Evolution of a Virus
July 16 — A University of California scientist working at Los Alamos National Laboratory with collaborators from the University of Cambridge (England) and the World Health Organization National Influenza Center at Erasmus Medical Center, (Rotterdam, Netherlands) have developed a computer modeling method for mapping the evolution of the influenza virus. The method could soon help medical researchers worldwide develop a better understanding of certain mutations in influenza and other viruses that allow diseases to dodge the human immune system.
Los Alamos computers probe how giant planets formed
July 13 — Nearly five billion years ago, the giant gaseous planets Jupiter and Saturn formed, apparently in radically different ways.
Laboratory Captures Five R&D 100 Awards
July 6 — Scientists at the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory have captured five of R&D Magazine's 2004 R&D 100 Awards. The latest winners bring the Laboratory's total to 83 awards over the past 17 years. The projects recognized this year span a diverse range of scientific and technical areas - from innovative imaging techniques and advances in computing to revolutionary new materials. This year, Los Alamos was tied with its sister laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for the largest number of awards received by a Department of Energy laboratory.
The Space Simulator - Modeling the universe on a budget
June 22 — For the past several years, a team of University of California astrophysicists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been using a cluster of roughly 300 computer processors to model some of the most intriguing aspects of the Universe. Called the Space Simulator, this de facto supercomputer has not only proven itself to be one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, but has also demonstrated that modeling and simulation of complex phenomena, from supernovae to cosmology, can be done on a fairly economical basis.
Scientists provide new understanding of manganites
June 3 — University of California researchers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently unveiled a new theory explaining the strange coexistence of metallic and insulating phases in the crystals of a mineral called perovskite manganite.
Scientists model the dynamics of DNA transcription
May 18 — In a collaboration with colleagues at Harvard Medical School, University of California researchers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a model and diagnostic tools to simulate the dynamics of DNA.
Scientists model disease outbreaks in urban social networks
May 13 — University of California researchers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory with colleagues at the University of Maryland and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a method for modeling disease outbreaks in realistic urban social networks.
Scientists explore complexities of sea ice from high desert venue
May 10 — For nearly a decade, University of California researchers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been upgrading and fine-tuning a sea ice modeling program created at the Laboratory.
Researchers untangle complex network systems
May 5 — By exploring the tangled nature of complex network systems, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Houston may have found a way to help scientists and engineers better understand dynamic processes on complex networks, such as the spread of infectious diseases, cascading massive electrical power failures, sources of vehicle traffic congestion on metropolitan roadways and information flow on the Internet. "
NIH chooses Los Alamos to model urban epidemics
May 4 — An emergency room physician sees a patient with a high fever and a trace of a rash and admits her to the hospital. The next morning, three more patients with similar symptoms come in, then more until lab tests confirm the initial hunch: an outbreak of smallpox has begun. How to keep the outbreak from becoming an epidemic, and recommending the best responses to public health officials, could be revealed through computer simulations under development at the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Los Alamos Supercomputing cluster software wins prize
April 28 — University of California researchers in Los Alamos National Laboratory's Advanced Computing Laboratory have been honored for their advances in connecting thousands of computers together to create clusters with much of the power of traditional supercomputers at a fraction of the cost.
New Mexico students at Los Alamos National Laboratory April 26-27 for Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge
April 22 — More than 200 high-school students from throughout New Mexico will be at Los Alamos National Laboratory next Monday and Tuesday (April 26-27) for the 14th annual New Mexico Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge Expo and awards ceremony.
New Supernova models take on third dimension
June 4 — Astrophysicists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, have created the first 3-D computer simulations of the spectacular explosion that marks the death of a massive star. Presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Albuquerque, N.M., today, the research by Michael Warren and Chris Fryer eliminates some of the doubts about earlier 2-D modeling and paves the way for rapid advances on other, more exotic questions about supernovae.
Los Alamos and Surrey Satellite contract for Cibola flight experiment platform
March 10 — Los Alamos National Laboratory and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) announced today a contract agreement for development of an advanced satellite platform for ionospheric and lightning studies.
Scientists protect quantum information in a noiseless subsystem
September 14 — Theorists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, in collaboration with an experimental team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have realized a general and efficient method for protecting quantum information against noise. The demonstration paves the way for the development of novel means for storing delicate quantum information and should, in turn, further the evolution of quantum computers. Quantum computers promise greatly increased computational speeds useful for performing critical mathematical tasks, such as database searching and number factoring, and for simulating complex quantum systems.
Cleaner chipmaking method uses carbon dioxide fluid
February 7 — Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new technology application that could all but eliminate the use of hazardous corrosives and the production of wastewater in the fabrication of integrated circuits, or chips, for computers.
Predicting El Niño: Lab researcher has some answers, more questions
January 17 — The Spanish term El Nino has been used for centuries by South American fishermen to describe the annual occurrence of warm, southward-flowing oceanic current waters off the coast of Ecuador and Peru around Christmas. El Niño, or the child, specifically refers to the Christ child.
Los Alamos scientists shed new light on quantum computation
January 4 — Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Queensland's Centre for Quantum Computer Technology in Australia have made an advance in the quest for a functional quantum computer by exploiting currently existing technology in a novel and unexpected way.
Scientists find quiet place in subspace
October 30 — Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have taken another step forward in the quest for a quantum-based computer by demonstrating the existence of a physical state immune to certain types of information-corrupting "noise," which could otherwise disrupt computations based on quantum states. The research appears in a recent issue of the journal Science.
Los Alamos scientists make seven bit quantum leap
March 22 — Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have made yet another experimental leap forward in the quest for a functional quantum computer capable of solving large mathematical problems or cracking secret codes faster than today's fastest supercomputers.
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