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BM is building the world’s faster supercomputer for the Department of Energy. The machine will have more computing power than the world’s current 500 fastest machines put together. The machine will be dubbed Sequoai, taken from the Latin name for the Californian redwood. It will have a 1.6TB of memory and be housed in 96 racks, each the size of a refrigerator.The current world’s faster computer, also made by IBM and used at the DoE, is known as Roadrunner. It was the first to break the one petaflop barrier, meaning it can carry out a quadrillion (one million billion) calculations...

WASHINGTON, July 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Energy has started an enforcement action against Los Alamos National Laboratory. The department and its National Nuclear Security Administration announced Friday they had started a "formal enforcement actions ... against the University of California and the Los Alamos National Security, LLC, the prior and current management and operating contractors of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico." The action was being taken "for violations of classified information security requirements under their respective contracts," the NNSA said in a statement. "Investigations revealed that management deficiencies of both contractors were a central...

By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER Inside Bay Area The head of a team challenging the University of California for command of the birthplace of the bomb is mightily offended by the university's suggestions that corporations such as his employer, Lockheed Martin, lack the ability or integrity to do real science. C. Paul Robinson, physicist and former Sandia National Laboratories director, lashed back Friday, saying his team was appalled at the lack of competent business practices and focused scientific direction at Los Alamos National Laboratory, run by the University of California since 1943. "No wonder science is hurting. You've got scientists...

Two Chinese diplomats, away from their Los Angeles consulate improperly, recently sped their vehicle past a Los Alamos National Lab guard post near classified facilities in what United States officials think was ian intelligence mission, the Washington Times has learned.The diplomats, identified as Hua Yu and Bo Lai, were on an intelligence mission that is raising new worries of Chinese nuclear spying against the United States, according to US officials familiar with the incident.Pajarito Road is the site of two sensitive facilities. One is the Critical Assembly Facility known as Technical Area 18, the other is the Plutonium Reasearch facility,...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — That computer on your desk is just your helper. But soon it may become a very close friend. Now it sends your e-mails, links you to the Web, does your computations, and pays your bills. Soon it could warn you when you’re talking too much at a meeting, if scientists at Sandia National Laboratories’ Advanced Concepts Group have their way. Or it could alert others in your group to be attentive when you have something important to say. Aided by tiny sensors and transmitters called a PAL (Personal Assistance Link) your machine (with your permission) will become...

<p>Under intense pressure from the Bush administration and top lawmakers, the University of California rehired two investigators Friday who had been fired from Los Alamos National Laboratory after they uncovered alleged incidents of theft and fraud by employees at the university-run weapons lab.</p>

<p>A U.S. Energy Department investigation into University of California mismanagement of the Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico will widen to include Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Bay Area, a federal official confirmed Friday.</p> <p>And, under mounting federal pressure, UC announced Friday it would reinstate two investigators who were fired after alerting officials of possible credit card misuse and $2.7 million in missing computers and other equipment at the Los Alamos lab.</p>

Los Alamos National Laboratory on Friday formally dedicated a new supercomputer called "Q," billed as the next step in the U.S. Department of Energy's efforts to maintain the nation's nuclear-weapons stockpile. The $215 million computer, complete with its own $93-million building, is only partially installed, but lab officials say the machine should have a peak capacity of more than 30 trillion operations per second once it is fully operational later this year. Compaq - recently acquired by Hewlett-Packard - is building the machine. Officials said Q would be the second-fastest supercomputer in the world because Japan recently unveiled a...