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Total employees: 13,137
Triad National Security, LLC: 9,397
Centerra Group, LLC Los Alamos (Guard Force): 281
Compa, Staff and support contractors: 478
Students: 1,323
Unionized craft workers: 1,160
Post doctoral researchers: 498
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 34.7 square miles of DOE-owned property.
1,280 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 9 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $14.2 billion
FY17:
63% Weapons programs
10% Nonproliferation programs
4% Safeguards and Security
7% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
3% Energy and other programs
9% Work for Others
Triad and students only
35% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 43
65% male, 35% female
45% minorities
67% university degrees
27% hold undergraduate degrees
19% hold master’s degrees
21% have earned a PhD
145 R&D100 awards
34 E.O. Lawrence Awards
9 Presidential Early Career Awards
3 Glenn Seaborg Medals
Edward Teller Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.
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As of Aug. 18, 2020
Los Alamos announces details of new computational storage deployment
The new file system leverages advanced technology based on emerging NVMe standards including Eideticom’s NoLoad technology on an NVMe computational storage processor (CSP) in a dense storage enclosure based on Marvell’s NVMe Ethernet bridging technology, and NVMe fabric connectivity provided by Mellanox ConnectX-6 technology - 11/16/20
Los Alamos National Laboratory brings next-generation HPC to the fight against COVID-19
New capabilities will give scientists substantially higher supercomputing performance, further enabling critical research ranging from therapeutics design to modeling viral spread - 10/20/20
Los Alamos, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NVIDIA partner to speed up scientific computing
New developments will include innovative high-performance computing (HPC) technology efforts to advance greater performance efficiency, workflow efficiency and analytics - 10/6/20
New algorithm could unleash the power of quantum computers
Fast-forwarding quantum calculations skips past the time limits imposed by decoherence, which plagues today’s machines - 10/5/20
Los Alamos announces details of new Crossroads supercomputer
Next–gen supercomputer will support predictive weapons research and calculations - 9/30/20