- 2007 – Best Paper award at the 2007 International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, Keith Underwood, Courtenay Vaughan and Ron Brightwell
- 2005 – Gordon Bell
Prize Finalist "A Scalable Distributed Parallel Breadth--First Search
Algorithm on {BlueGene/L," Andy Yoo, Edmond Chow, Keith Henderson, William
McLendon III, Bruce Hendrickson
- 2004 – Gordon Bell
Award for "Ultrascalable Implicit Finite Element Analysis in Solid
Mechanics with over Half a Billion Degrees of Freedom," Mark
F. Adams (Sandia National Laboratories), Harun H. Bayraktar (Abuqus Corporation),
Tony M. Keaveny (U.C. Berkeley), Panayiotis Papadopoulos
(U.C.Berkeley)
- 2002 – Gordon Bell Prize for Special Accomplishment in Supercomputing Based on Innovation
- 1999 – Mannheim SuParCup'99 Winners with "Scalable Parallel Crash Simulations": 9100/9200 Team
- 1998 – Best of Web Award, (circa 8/98): http://www.popsci.com/context/features/bow
- 1998 – Gordon Bell Prize Finalist: M. Sears
- 1998 – Reissner Medal winner S.W. Attaway at the International Conference on Computational Engineering Science for Excellence in Computational Mechanics Research
- 1997 – Gordon Bell Prize Finalist: Scientific Computations on Parallel Machines, MPSalsa Team
- 1997 – Gordon Bell Prize Finalist: Transient Solid Dynamics Simulation on the Sandia/Intel Teraflop Computer (Pronto)
- 1995 – New York Festival's Finalist Award for Introducing MuSE (technical documentation)
- 1994 – Gordon Bell Prize Winner
- 1994 – Gordon Bell Prize Finalist: Scientific Computations on Parallel Machines, MPSalsa Team
- 1988 – Inaugural Gordon Bell Prize Winner
- 1988 – Karp Challenge
Winner (unique, given only once for first group to exceed 200-fold speed-up
on an MPP)
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R&D
100 Awards
- 2007 - Novint Falxon and Novint/Sandia 3D-Touch Software (joint with Novint, Inc.). George S. Davidson
- 2006 - Computer Process Allocator. Vitus Leung (PI), Michael Bender (SUNY Stony Brook), David Bunde (University of Illinois), Kevin Pedretti, Cynthia Phillips
- 2005 – Assurance
Featuring TripleTred Technology
- 2004 – Trilinos:
Development of Trilinos framework to facilitate the design, development,
integration
and ongoing support of mathematical software libraries, Mike Heroux
- 2000 – Sandia Microstructure Property Model Software Package
- 1999 – Salvo: Seismic Imaging Software
- 1997 – Aztec: A Parallel Sparse Matrix Solver Library
- 1997 – HPSS(with LLNL, LANL, & ORNL)
- 1996 – ATM OC-12c Protocol Engine
- 1996 – Scalable ATM Encryptor
- 1994 – Parallel Dense Equation Solver Software Library
- 1994 – SANDROS Operating System (motion planner for robotic manipulators)
- 1993 – Paving Mesh Generation Algorithm
- 1991 – Cryptographic Synchronization Loss Detector
- 1990 – Phase Gradient Autofocus for Synthetic Aperture Radar
- 1989 – Parallel Computing Software for Scientific Problems
- 1986 – SANDAC IV Parallel Processor Embedded Computer
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Other
Awards and Honors
- 2007 - APS Fellow, Richard Fye
- 2007 - Best Algorithms Paper Award, "Hypergraph-based Dynamic Load Balancing for Adaptive Scientific Computations," IEEE 2007 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS07), Zoltan Team: Umit V. Catalyurek (Ohio St. Univ.), Erik G. Boman (SNL), Karen D. Devine (SNL), Doruk Bozdag (Ohio St. Univ.), Robert Heaphy (SNL), Lee Ann Riesen
(SNL)
- 2006 - Recognition from Congresswoman Heather Wilson as a “Builder of Community and Dreams" (Cynthia A. Phillips)
- 2006 - Best paper award at 2nd International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware for "Realizing Parallelism in Database Operations: Insights From a Massively Multithreaded Architecture" (Jon Berry and Bruce Hendrickson).
- 2006 - Finalist for SIAM Activity Group in Linear Algebra Prize in '06 for "Support Theory for Preconditioning" (Erik Boman and Bruce Hendrickson).
- 2006 - Red Storm placed #2 in the Supercomputing TOP500 list in 11/2006.
- 2006 - Several people in 1400 were part of the Red Storm Supercomputing Design and Development Team that won a Lockheed Martin's NOVA Award for teamwork. Team Memebers: Robert Ballance (4328), Linda Bonnefoy-Lev (4014), Ron Brightwell (1423), Bill Camp (1400) Douglas Doerfler (1422), Sue Kelly (1423), John Neagle (4336), John Noe (4328), Kevin Pedretti (1423), Mahesh Rajan (4328), Leonard Stans (4336), Judy Sturtevant (4328), James Tomkins (1420), Keith Underwood (1423), John Van Dyke (1423), Courtney Vaughn (1422), Lee Ward (1422), David White (4340), and John Zepper (4320).
- 2005 - Finalist for Gordon Bell Prize in high performance computing for "A Scalable Distributed Parallel Breadth--First Search Algorithm on BlueGene/L" (Will McLendon and Bruce Hendrickson).
- 2004 – Runner
up in the Second Industrial Properties Fluids Simulation Challenge - Category:
Vapor Pressure and Heat of Vaporization of Liquids, Marcus G. Martin and
Mary J. Biddy
- 2003 – NNSA
Defense Programs CY2003 Award of Excellence went to the team that developed
the Photocnductive Semiconductor Switch (PCSS) technology from discovery
to application in the W80. Harold Hjalmarson's (Dept. 9235) efforts in developing
the theory of the PCSS was a valuable contribution to this team.
- 2003 – Winners
of the First Industrial Fluids Simulation Challenge - Category: Viscosity.
(Sponsored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Nov. 2003) Marcus
Martin and Aidan Thompson
- 2003 – Distinguished Engineering Fellow, Mississippi State University, Ronald B. Brightwell
- 2002-2003 – Outstanding Service Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee, Anthony Giunta
- 2002– One of the top 10 research advances in materials in 2002. "Calculating at the Interface, Challenging Interfacial Properties Yield to New Theoretical Methods," Chemical and Engineering News, American Chemical Society, Nov. 11, 2002, Ann E. Mattsson
- 2002 – Gold World Medal (1st place) in the 2002 New York Festivals in the Computer Science Category. "Computer Haptics: Feel the Future" - A video on computer touch technology. Produced by Regina Valenzuela (9227), written by Susan Blumenthal and Arthurine Breckenridge (formerly 9227)
- 2002 – Crystal Award of Excellence (1st place) in the 2002 Communicator Awards in the Government/Educational Category. "Computer Haptics: Feel the Future" - A video on computer touch technology. Produced by Regina Valenzuela (9227), written by Susan Blumenthal and Arthurine Breckenridge (formerly 9227)
- 2002 – A Silver Screen award (2nd place) in the 2002 US International Film and Video Festival-Sciences, Research and Exploration category. "VIEWS Corridor"- A video describing the technical achievements and goals of the VIEWS Corridor. The video was produced to showcase visualization display technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories. Produced by Regina Valenzuela of Organization 9227 and scripted by Sandia contractor Susan Blumenthal
- 2002 – A Silver AXIEM Award (2nd Place) in the 2002 Absolute Excellence in Electronic Media Competition-Technical Video category. "VIEWS Corridor" - A video describing the technical achievements and goals of the VIEWS Corridor. The video was produced to showcase visualization display technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories. Produced by Regina Valenzuela of Organization 9227 and scripted by Sandia contractor Susan Blumenthal
- 2002 – A Finalist Award in the 2002 New York Festivals Film and Video Competition-Computer Science category. "VIEWS Corridor" - A video describing the technical achievements and goals of the VIEWS Corridor. The video was produced to showcase visualization display technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories. Produced by Regina Valenzuela of Organization 9227 and scripted by Sandia contractor Susan Blumenthal
- 2002 – 1st place for predicting the viscosity of n-nonane/iospropanol mixtures in the "The First Industrial Fluids Properties Simulation Challenge," American Institute of Chemical Engineers Competition, Marcus Martin and Aidan Thompson
- 2001 – Honorable Mention Award in the 2001 International Cinema in Industry (CINDY) Competition-Technical Report and Scientific Research category. "VIEWS Corridor" - A video describing the technical achievements and goals of the VIEWS Corridor. The video was produced to showcase visualization display technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories. Produced by Regina Valenzuela of Organization 9227 and scripted by Sandia contractor Susan Blumenthal
- 2001 – Honorable Mention Award in the 2001 Communicator Awards Festival-Government/Educational category. "VIEWS Corridor" - A video describing the technical achievements and goals of the VIEWS Corridor. The video was produced to showcase visualization display technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories. Produced by Regina Valenzuela of Organization 9227 and scripted by Sandia contractor Susan Blumenthal
2001 – Top 100 Producer, AV Video Multimedia Producer Magazine Arthurine R. Breckenridge
- 2000 – YWCA (Central Rio Grande) Woman on the Move in Science and Technology Award, C. A. Phillips
- 2000 – Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE): R. Lehoucq
- 2000 – Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Award in Science and Engineering: R. Lehoucq
- 2000 – Buneman Prize, International Conference on the Numerical Simulation of Plasmas (ICNSP 2000) First Prize - Animation Category, Chris Garasi
- 1999 – 2nd place, "Best Mesh Competition," 8th International Meshing Roundtable, South Lake Tahoe, CA, Timothy Tautges
- 1999 – Winner of the Ballistics Neil Griffiths Memorial Award at the 18th International Symposium on Ballistics, San Antonio, TX, for "Experiments and Simulations of Spinning Shaped Charges with Fluted Liners" by M.E. Kipp, R.R. Martinez, E.S. Hertel, E.L. Baker, B.E. Fuchs, and C.L. Chin
- 1999 – EPSRC Visiting Fellowship, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK: R. Lehoucq
- 1999 – Outstanding Young Alumnus Award, Wilkes University: Karen Devine
- 1999 – Outstanding Student, University of New Mexico: Leigh Shoulta
- 1999 – Supercomputing Competition Winner: Kevin Oishi
- 1998 – Fellow, American Pysical Society, William J. Camp
- 1998 – Site of the Week, February 1998, International Webmasters Association: http://www.sandia.gov/media/dinosaur.htm
- 1998 – IEEE Vis Conference winner of best "Case Study" paper: P. Heermann
- 1998 – Winner of the Assembly Automation's Gunter Wittenberg Award, Outstanding Paper for "Automated assembly and fixture planning at Sandia National Laboratories" by T. Calton, R. Peters, and R. Jones
- 1997 – Eugene O'Connor and Tom Cramer Award from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology: Kenneth Moreland
- 1997 – FY'97 DOE Outstanding Performance Award: Sandia National Laboratories' Computational & Information Sciences Research Foundation
- 1996 – Winner of the Hypervelocity Impact Symposium Best Paper Award for "Fragmentation Properties of Metals," D.E. Grade, and M.E. Kipp
- 1996 – Gold Medal for Concurrency in the High Performance Computing Challenge
- 1996 – Intel Supercomputer Users Group Meeting Best Paper Award for Pronto team
- 1995-1996 – White House Fellow, Robert Leland
- 1994 – High Performance Computing Excellence Award
- 1993 – Winner, New Mexico Inventor of the Year Program (MuSE)
- 1993 – ENNE Awards from Network World and Networld, National User Award
- 1992 – SC'92: Hetergeneous Computing Challenge Award Winner
- 1992 – Distinguished Achievement, New Mexico Inventor of the Year Program (Computer Architecture)
- 1991 – Best Paper, BENESUS 1991 Conference
- 1991 – Interop Achievement Award
- 1991 – Unsung Hero of Computer Security Award
- 1990 – Best Paper, NEXUS User Group
- 1990 – Best Paper, XIIth International Congress for Electron Microscopy for "Parallel Microscopy Modeling"
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Patents
(http://www.freepatentsonline.com/)
- 2007 - Patent #7,219,039, Method for Generating a Mesh Representation of a Region Characterized by a Trunk and a Branch Thereon. Granted May 2007, Jason F. Shepherd, Scott A. Mitchell, Steven R. Jankovich, Steven E. Benzley
- 2007 - Patent #7,181,377, Method of modifying a volume mesh using sheet extraction. Granted Feb. 20, 2007, Michael J. Borden and Jason F. Shepherd
- 2006 - Patent #7,098,912, Method of modifying a volume mesh using sheet insertion. Granted Aug. 29, 2006, Michael J. Borden and Jason F. Shepherd
- 2006 – Patent
# 7,013,395, Method and Tool for Network Vulnerability Analysis. Granted
3/14/06, Cynthia
Phillips, Laura Swiler
- 2006 – Patent
# 7,065,736 B1, System for Generating Two-Dimensional Masks from a Three-Dimensional
Model
Using Topological Analysis. Granted 6/20/06, Richard Schiek
- 2006 – ,
Automatic Detection of Sweep-Meshable Volumes. Granted 5/23/06, Tim Tautges,
David White
- 2006 – Patent
# 6,985,867, Method of Predicting a Change in an Economy. Granted 1/10/06,
Richard Pryor
- 2004 – ,
Internal Lewis Acid Single Site Catalyst Family for Polymerization of Polar
Monomers. Granted August 17, 2004, Dean M. Phillipp, Richard P.
Muller, William A. Goddard, III
- 2003 – Patent
# 6,519,553, Multiprocessor Computer Overset Grid Method and Apparatus.
Granted February 11, 2003, Daniel W. Barnette and Curtis C. Ober
- 2002 – Patent
# 6,356,860, Method of Grid Generation. Granted March 12, 2002, Daniel
W. Barnette
- 2000 – Patent
# 6,021,094, Method of Migrating Seismic Records. Granted February 1, 2000,
Curtis C. Ober, Louis A. Romero, Dennis C. Ghiglia
- 1999 – Patent
# 5,987,470, Method of Data Mining Including Determining Multidimensional
Coordinates of Each Item Using a Predetermined Scalar Similarity Value
for Each Item
Pair. Granted November 16, 1999, Charles E. Meyers, George S. Davidson,
David K. Johnson, Bruce A. Hendrickson, Brian N. Wylie
- 1999 – Patent
# 5,955,801, Microfabricated Microengine with Constant Rotation Rate. Granted
September 21, 1999, Louis A. Romero, Fred M. Dickey
- 1999 – Patent
# 5,935,216, Methods for Operating Parallel Computing Systems Employing
Sequenced Communications, Granted August 10, 1999, Robert E. Benner, John
L. Gustafson, Gary R. Montry
- 1999 – Patent
#5859642, Virtual Button Interface. Granted January 12, 1999, J. S. Jones
- 1998 – Patent
# 5,795,581, Controlled Release of Molecular Components of Dendrimer/bioactive
Complexes. Granted August 18, 1998, Daniel J. Segalman, J. Shield Wallace
- 1998 – Patent
# 5,768,156, Connectivity-based, All-hexahedral Mesh Generation Method and
Apparatus. Granted June 16, 1998, Timothy J. Tautges, Scott a. Mitchell,
Teddy D. Blacker
- 1998 – Patent
# 5,754,447, Process for Predicting Structural Performance of Mechanical
Systems. Granted May 19, 1998, Steven J. Plimpton, Courtenay T. Vaughan,
David R.
Gardner, Bruce A. Hendrickson, Martin W. Heinstein, Stephen W. Attaway
- 1997 – Patent
# 5,680,524, Synthetic Environment Employing a Craft for Providing User Perspective
Reference. Granted October 21, 1997, Creve C. Maples
- 1997 – Patent
# 5,657,465, Direct Match Data Flow Machine Apparatus and Process for Data
Driven Computing. Granted August 12, 1997, George S. Davidson, V. Gerald
Grafe
- 1997 – Patent
# 5,630,129, Dynamic Load Balancing of Applications. Granted May 13, 1997,
Stephen Randolph Wheat, Arthur Bernard Macc
- 1996 – Patent
# 5,488,692, System and method for representing and manipulating three-dimensional
objects on massively parallel architectures. Granted January 30, 1996,
Michael S. Karasick, David R. Strip
- 1996 – Patent
# 5,587,922, Multi-Dimensional Spectral Load Balancing. Granted December
24, 1996, Robert W. Leland, Bruce A. Hendrickson
- 1996 – Patent
# 5,544,282, Method and Apparatus for Planning Motions of Robot Manipulators.
Granted August 6, 1996, Pang-chieh Chen, Yong K. Hwang
- 1995 – Patent
# 5,465,368, Data Flow Machine for Data Driven Computing. Granted November
7, 1995, George Davidson, V. Gerald Grafe
- 1995 – Patent
# 5,424,743, 2-D weighted Least-squares Phase Unwrapping. Granted June 13,
1995, Louis Romero, Dennis C. Ghiglia
- 1994 – Patent
# 5,315,537, Automated Quadrilateral Surface Discretization Method and Apparatus
Usable to Generate Mesh in a Finite Element Analysis System. Granted May
24, 1994, Teddy D. Blacker
- 1994 – Patent #5299262, Method for Exponentiating in Cryptographic Systems. Granted March 29, 1994, Ernest F. Brickell, Kevin S. McCurly, Daniel M. Gordon
- 1993 – Patent
# 5,226,131, Sequencing and Fan-Out Mechanism for Causing a Set of at Least
Two Sequential Instructions to be Performed in a Data flow Processing. Granted
July 6, 1993, V. Gerald Grafe, James E. Hoch
- 1991 – Patent
# 5,072,371, Method for Simultaneous Overlapped Communications Between Neighboring
Processors in a Multiple. Granted December 10, 1991, Robert E. Benner Jr.,
John L. Gustafson, Gary R. Montry
- 1990 – Patent
# 4,977,596, Cryptographic Synchronization Recovery by Measuring Randomness
of Decrypted Data. Granted December 11, 1990, L. G. Pierson, J. H. Maestas
- 1990 – Patent
# 4,924,229, Phase Correction System for Automatic Focusing of Synthetic
Aperture Radar. Granted May 8, 1990, Paul H. Eichel, Charles V. Jakowatz,
Jr., Dennis
C. Ghiglia
- 1990 – Patent
# 4,893,234, Multi-Processor Including Data Flow Accelerator Module. Granted
January 9, 1990, George S. Davidson, Paul E. Pierce
- 1989 – Patent
# 4,841,550, Universal Null DTE. Granted June 20, 1989, Michael George, Lyndon
G. Pierson
Maintained by: Bernadette Watts
Modified on:
May 6, 2008
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