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- DOE slams Los Alamos on lax cybersecurity
- Three computers stolen from an employee's home in January are just a few of the computers lost by the Lab over the years. by Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-02-15
- Buffered Coscheduling: A New Methodology for Multitasking Parallel Jobs on Distributed Systems
- Buffered coscheduling is a scheduling methodology for time-sharing communicating processes in parallel and distributed systems. The methodology has two primary features: communication buffering and strobing. With communication buffering, communication generated by each processor is buffered and performed at the end of regular intervals to amortize communication and scheduling overhead. This...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks
- TCP/IP routing is the standard for static wired networks, but TCP/IP cannot quickly ad adjusts to change in network topology that at can occur in wireless ad hoc networks. A wireless ad hoc network's topology is dynamic because hosts eventually lose power, hosts' transmission on range may vary over time,...
- White papers 2007-08-22
- Enhancing TCP Performance for Dedicated Clusters and Grids
- TCP congestion control methods seriously and unnecessarily harm performance of network transmissions when used in dedicated clusters and grids. This paper presents a simple method in which congestion control can be disabled under appropriate circumstances while still addressing fairness issues and avoiding congestion collapse. The paper discusses a Linux-based implementation...
- White papers 2007-02-05
- Using Steady-State TCP Behavior for Proactive Queue Management
- This paper describes and evaluates the use of steady-state TCP behavior knowledge for Proactive Queue Management PQM. It shows how routers can use flow parameters and the knowledge of TCP end-host behavior to intelligently mark packets to prevent queue build-up, and thus prevent congestion from ever occurring, while at the...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- An 'underground' radio to save lives
- The Duluth News Tribune wrote last week about a communication device which could be a lifesaver for miners. This invention is the brainchild of David Reagor, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory LANL. His prototype radio works at depths of 500 feet and is based on very low frequency...
- Blog posts 2006-05-06
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- Addressing the Top 5 Database Vulnerabilities Plaguing Federal Agencies
- According to the recently released Verizon 2009 Data Breach Report, 285 million records were compromised in 2008. Agencies of the U.S. government such as The Pentagon, NASA, FAA, The Army, The Veterans Administration, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have suffered data losses - either through inadvertent human error, insider...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Obama counts Mundie, Schmidt, hedge fund founder Shaw as tech advisors
- President Obama named Microsoft research chief Craig Mundie and Google CEO Eric Schmidt to his panel of science and technology advisors along with a few other notable characters. The full name of this panel is the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology PCAST and the goal is...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Microsoft still fighting a losing battle against Google
- Microsoft still fighting a losing battle against Googlebut MS has shown they can't think outside the box...all they do is make 'me too' products and add on gimmicky low utility features like "the social" with the Zune. Seach is not different... they add nothing to the mix that really...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-26
- The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search deal
- The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search dealThe chattering class???"The patience over Microsoft and Yahoo's never-ending deal dance is wearing thin among the chattering class–bloggers, analysts and folks sick of following this dysfunctional courtship" ...Why would companies like Microsoft and Yahoo let their business strategies be driven by "the...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-11
- Green Plug snags heavy hitter for board
- Who says green tech isn't rocket science? Starting Sept. 1, green tech start-up Green Plug, which is pushing for the concept of a universal power converter, has appointed former White House advisor George Keyworth as the chairman of its board of directors. Keyworth was Science Advisor to...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC
- Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- From fungus to fuel
- An international team of researchers led by some U.S. Department of Energy's research labs has decoded the genetic sequence of a fungus named Tricoderma reesei. The team has found how this organism breaks down plant fibers into simple sugars and how to use this fungus to produce fuel. 'The finding...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- China connection eyed in Oak Ridge cyber attack
- Last week's phishing attack at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee reportedly has a China connection. Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratory were hit with a cyber attack where hackers accessed Social Security numbers and birth dates of visitors to the lab between 1990 and 2004. A...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Dept of Energy labs hacked by phishers
- This is pretty scary: Two major military and nuclear weapons labs have been breached by hackers: the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Lab, PCWorld says. Oak Ridge suffered a "sophisticated cyber attack," a spokesperson said, in which hackers accessed the SSNs and DOBs of...
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- To controversy, NSF taps IBM, U of Illinois for supercomputer
- The National Science Foundation has chosen to IBM to help it build the world's fastest supercomputer at a cost of up to $400 million, The New York Times reports.The news of the contract award only escaped because relevant documents were mistakenly placed on a federal Website for a short time...
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- An oven-fridge-generator powered by sound
- Several UK universities are teaming to develop an inexpensive all-in-one appliance for developing countries. In "Burning wood to power fridges," Nature reports that the SCORE (Stove for Cooking, Refrigeration and Electricity) project will use "thermoacoustic technology to convert biomass fuels, such as wood, into energy to power the appliance." In...
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Boron buckyballs are coming
- Boron buckyballs are comingBoron BuckyballsTHis could be the beginning of the technology needed to advance the research into effective methods of containing nuclear waste. Boron is quite effective as a neutron sponge, it's structure absorbs those extra neutrons generated in a reactor core and could be effective in surrounding...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- A Study of FDDI and Ethernet Traffic on the LANL Network Backbone
- This paper discusses several network traffic traces taken on the Los Alamos National Laboratory backbone between 2001 and 2002. These traces, approximately 1.2 terabytes of binary data, will soon be released for public study in an anonymous form. This paper will discuss the collection methodology, tools, and an analysis showing...
- White papers 2007-02-05
- IBM wins hybrid supercomputer deal
- IBM wins hybrid supercomputer deal32,000 processors and no license fee for Linux!"IBM has won a deal to build a supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory that will pair more than 16,000 AMD Opteron processors with more than 16,000 Cell processors to try to reach a new computing milestone for the...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-07
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