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- DOE slams Los Alamos on lax cybersecurity
- DOE slams Los Alamos on lax cybersecurityGovernment wasting tax dollars nothing new Anytime big GOVERNMENT is involved you can be assured of disaster My first question would be:[i]Three computers stolen from an employee?s home in Santa Fe on Jan. 16.[/i]Why does ONE employee have THREE govt issued computers in his...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-15
- (Photos: Peace in Los Alamos)
- (Photos: Peace in Los Alamos)Mixed perspective, probably unique perspective.My uncle worked on the Manhattan Project. I spent four years in the Air Force from 1966 to 1970, three of those in Tokyo, Japan. I met veterans of WWII Pacific, and met survivors of Hiroshima. I saw collapsed bunkers adjacent to...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-07
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- Biggest of the big: IBM dominates latest Green 500 supercomputer list
- We all know that the concept of green computer can be twisted to serve pretty much any side of the argument I wrote just a few days ago why the mainframe might NOT be considered green but the fact is there are a lot truly BIG computers out there, in...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- 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
- Roadrunner, Jaguar retain supercomputer edge
- IBM's Roadrunner and Cray's Jaguar have retained their No. 1 and No. 2 rankings on the Top500 supercomputer list which is released twice yearly. Roadrunner (Credit: IBM) IBM's Roadrunner and Cray's Jaguar have retained their No. 1 and No. 2 rankings on...
- News items 2009-06-23
- 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
- PPoPP 2009 wrap-up
- The 3-day Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2009) conference ended last week with a session on parallel compilers and tools, another on high end computing software, and a keynote by ACM fellow Jack Dennis. Although the last day was a short one, it was not light on content....
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
- News to know: Windows Mobile 6.5; Red Hat; CRM; Facebook
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Matthew Miller: Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints, where's the beef? Image Gallery: Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots Garett Rogers: Microsoft responds to Android with Windows Mobile...
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- 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
- New physics as applied to solar tech
- Scientists at Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico have confirmed that it's possible for a single photon to create more than one electron. They have tracked the phenomenon in nanotech semiconductor crystals. This research can enable more efficient solar panels. The research shows a conventional solar cell...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- 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
- A micro nuclear reactor in your garden?
- A micro nuclear reactor in your garden?Neato technology, but...I was a nuclear engineer in a former life, so I can make a pretty good guess as to what the technology in these mini-nukes is. Its all very clever, as one could imagine from a product coming out of LANL.However,...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- 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
- Why computers fail
- Good failure data for PCs is hard to find: who knows how many times PC users are told to reinstall Windows? But in a recent paper, Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson of CMU found some surprising results in 10 years of large scale cluster system failures at Los Alamos National...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- 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
- PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer
- Some scoffed at the 8 PS3 supercomputer. But not the scientists at Los Alamos National Labs. They used the idea to build a 1 petaflop computer named Roadrunner - the world's fastest. Here's how. 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second Fine-grained simulation of aging nuclear...
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- From fungus to fuel
- From fungus to fuelGood stuffthis means they can make fuel from non-human fuel.. otherwise known as food.Ethonal is not the answer though.. it still pollutes.the air car is a wayy better solution.Let's cool this Planet down!I'm running my generator on chicken manure and leaving my refrigerator door open!Author StuffLarge projects...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- 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
- Credit issuer says data lost for 650,000 customers
- Credit issuer says data lost for 650,000 customersNice going...I should try telling these various credit card company morons that I "lost" their bills and then send them an offer to protect their good names. This idiotic country has become absolutely beholden to computer systems that barely work and employees that...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-19
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