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- Thinking about Vigilantism
- Remember Sean Carpenter? There was a great article in Time last summer that chronicled Sean’s activity at Sandia Labs in the Titan Rain affair. (Rather than link to Time’s “Premium Content” here is a link to Tao Security that blogged it at the time). Sean...
- Blog posts 2006-03-02
- Sandia supercomputer to get dual-core Opterons
- Sandia supercomputer to get dual-core OpteronsNo Window here, Linux all the way. Smart people don't use Windows here.Microsoft is the village idiot of super computers!!No Window here, Linux all the way. Smart people don't use Windows here.Microsoft is the village idiot of super computers!!Smart people don't use LinuxSpeaking of village...
- Discussion threads 2004-07-29
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- Scientists replicate the physics of a stellar jet in laboratory
- Astronomers will tell you that among the most beautiful structures observed in the Universe are the intricate jets of matter speeding away from accreting stars, such as young proto-stars and stellar mass black holes. But they have a hard time explaining it. A pair of professors the University of Rochester...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Urban Hopper bot leaps over 25-foot fence
- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is showing off its Precision Urban Hopper robot, a wheeled ground unit being developed by Sandia National Laboratories and Boston Dynamics for surveillance operations in urban terrain. The shoebox-size rolling robot can leap over 25-foot-tall obstacles and keep going.
- Videos 2009-09-17
- Reseachers run one million virtual machines to help flight botnet problem
- LateYou are like 2 weeks late to the story.http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Sandia-Computer-Scientists-Boot-One-Million-Linux-Kernels-as-Virtual-Machines-51891292.htmlAt the risk of starting a flame...war, shouldn't they be running Windows kernels? If they are wanting to mimic a real world botnet scenario then they would need to run Windows. Since 90% or so PC's run Windows and Windows is definitely...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-09
- Reseachers run one million virtual machines to help flight botnet problem
- Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories SNL have demonstrated a supercomputer running more than one million virtual computers that will provide insight into the behavior of botnets. Botnets are networks of infected computers zombies that can be remotely controlled, and are difficult to protect against and study since...
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- Fusion, or confusion?
- Laser chamber. National Ignition Facility, Livermore. An MSM columnist seems to be touting fusion as a future cure for our energy problems. Turning mass into energy. E=mc2. Fusion powers the planet as it does our Sun. Nirvana for all except the oil...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- The many-core performance wall
- Many-core chips are the great hope for more performance but Sandia National Lab simulations show they are about to hit a memory wall. How bad is it? Some background Memory bandwidth is the limiting performance factor in CPUs. If you can't feed the beast it stops...
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Paranoia, tin foil hats, and the EMP threat
- Paranoia, tin foil hats, and the EMP threatPaul are you ok this morningyou seen stress a bit you should put down the coffee and lay a will ... take vacation a nice bottle of wine ...you working to much at this moment :)Of course EMP is a...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
- MIT students making solar power realistic
- MIT students making solar power realisticno kiddingIn fact, the researchers believe that, because they can concentrate the heat from the sun so intensely, any water run near the focus could easily be vaporized to run a turbine and generate electricity.For crying out loud.I'm getting so tired of this.Here's all you...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
- Images: Supersize solar power
- Utility-scale solar power plants--using everything from giant reflective dishes to plastic balloons--are changing the look of solar power.Parabolic troughs, one of which is shown here, have been around for 25 years, and the technology will be around for at least another 25. Parabolic troughs reflect sunlight to heat liquid carried...
- Image galleries 2008-05-26
- Peta-Scale I/O With the Lustre File System
- This paper describes low-level infrastructure in the Lustre file system that addresses scalability in very large clusters. The features described deal with I/O and networking, lock management, recovery after failure, and other scalability-related issues. The Lustre file system first went into production in Spring 2003 on the Multiprogrammatic Capability Resource...
- White papers 2008-02-01
- China rejects U.S. charge it hacked Pentagon
- China rejects U.S. charge it hacked PentagonAnd yet...After our pets being poisoned, our food being poisoned, and now this, we continue to send more and more manufacturing jobs over there daily.I hope all those short-sighted CEO's are making enough extra money to buy that next yhacht they drool over, because...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-04
- News to know: Multimedia storage; WGA recovering; Yahoo Mail; Solar Wi-Fi
- Notable headlines:George Ou: Best storage strategies for the multimedia PC.Robin Harris: Why aren't small drives cheaper?Top 10 reviews of the week left.'Second Life': The promise and paradoxMary Jo Foley: Microsoft WGA servers are fixed, but no word on what went wrong. Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage system down for the count?...
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- Smart cars... from Sandia
- Sandia National Laboratories SNL are more known for their research on nuclear weapons than for making our cars safer. Still, some SNL researchers are designing safety features for cars that can analyze human behavior. This could lead to smarter cars which would tell us that we're tired or tell our...
- Blog posts 2007-08-25
- Boosting solar energy plants efficiency
- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have invented a new way to make solar collector systems more energy efficient. The theoretical overlay photographic TOP technology developed at Sandia uses mirrors to focus radiation from the sun as a source of heat for power generation. In fact, they've created a mirror alignment...
- Blog posts 2007-05-19
- Tuning C++ Applications for the Latest Generation X64 Processors With PGI Compilers and Tools
- At CUG 2006, a cache oblivious implementation of a two dimensional Lagrangian hydrodynamics model of a single ideal gas material was presented. This paper presents further optimizations to this C++ application to allow packed, consecutive-element storage of vectors, some restructuring of loops containing neighborhood operations, and adding type qualifiers to...
- White papers 2007-05-09
- Thinking about Vigilantism
- Thinking about VigilantismUpdate on Sandia National Laboratories "Vigilante"URL: http://www.abqjournal.com/news/metro/537833metro02-14-07.htmAlbuquerque Journal, Front pageWednesday, February 14, 2007[u][b]Sandia Hacker Gets $4 Million[/b][/u]By Scott SandlinCopyright © 2007 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Staff Writer A jury delivered a strong— and expensive— message to Sandia National Laboratories on Tuesday, awarding more than $4 million...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-25
- News to know: Office 14; Google's ad quality; iPhone copycat
- Notable headlines: U.S. servers slurp more power than Mississippi.Vista Hands On #3: Check your disk before upgrading.How to avoid a FAT nightmare when upgrading to Vista.Text of Email to all Yahoos. Yahoo copies Digg, suffers the consequences. It takes two to Tango. Office 14: Think first half of 2009.EFF takes...
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Romanian indicted for assault on US computers
- As if trying to prove a point, a Romanian man was indicted for allegedly breaking into more than 150 U.S. government computers, reports News.com. Victor Faur, 26, of Arad, Romania, was the leader of a group know as the "WhiteHat Team," which allegedly chose the U.S. government...
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
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