Sandia National Laboratories
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Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), also known as Sandia,
Established in 1949, SNL is a "multimission laboratory"
Sandia conducts research through partnership agreements with academic, governmental, and commercial entities;
Lab history
Sandia National Laboratories' roots go back to
In the many months leading up to successful detonation of the first
Name | Tenure |
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James S. Peery | January 2020–[2] |
Stephen Younger | May 2017 –December 2019[3] |
Jill M. Hruby | July 2015 –May 2017[16][17] |
Paul Hommert | July 2010 –July 2015[18][17] |
Thomas Hunter | April 2005 –July 2010[19] |
C. Paul Robinson | August 1995 –April 2005[20] |
Albert Narath | 1989–1995[21] |
Irwin Welber | February 1986 –March 1989[22][23] |
George C. Dacey | August 1981 –January 1986[22][24] |
Morgan Sparks | October 1972 –July 1981[22][25] |
John A. Hornbeck | November 1966 –September 1972[22] |
Siegmund P. "Monk" Schwartz | September 1960 –October 1966[22] |
Julius Molnar | October 1958 –August 1960[22] |
James W. McRae | September 1953 –September 1958[22] |
Donald A. Quarles | March 1952 –August 1953[22] |
George Landry | October 1949 –February 1952[22] |
Sandia Laboratory was operated by the
Sandia led a project that studied how to decontaminate a subway system in the event of a biological weapons attack (such as anthrax). As of September 2017, the process to decontaminate subways in such an event is "virtually ready to implement," said a lead Sandia engineer.[28]
Sandia's integration with its local community includes a program through the Department of Energy's Tribal Energy program to deliver alternative renewable power to remote Navajo communities, spearheaded by senior engineer Sandra Begay.[29][30]
Legal issues
On February 13, 2007, a New Mexico State Court found Sandia Corporation liable for $4.7 million in damages for the firing of a former network security analyst, Shawn Carpenter, who had reported to his supervisors that hundreds of military installations and defense contractors' networks were compromised and sensitive information was being stolen – including hundreds of sensitive Lockheed documents on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter project. When his supervisors told him to drop the investigation and do nothing with the information, he went to intelligence officials in the United States Army and later the Federal Bureau of Investigation to address the national security breaches. When Sandia managers discovered his actions months later, they revoked his security clearance and fired him.[31]
In 2014, an investigation determined Sandia Corp. used lab operations funds to pay for lobbying related to the renewal of its $2 billion contract to operate the lab. Sandia Corp. and its parent company, Lockheed Martin, agreed to pay a $4.8 million fine.[32]
Technical areas
SNL/NM consists of five technical areas (TA) and several additional test areas. Each TA has its own distinctive operations; however, the operations of some groups at Sandia may span more than one TA, with one part of a team working on a problem from one angle, and another subset of the same team located in a different building or area working with other specialized equipment. A description of each area is given below.
TA-I operations are dedicated primarily to three activities: the design, research, and development of weapon systems; limited production of weapon system components; and energy programs. TA-I facilities include the main library and offices, laboratories, and shops used by administrative and technical staff.
TA-II is a 45-acre (180,000 m2) facility that was established in 1948 for the assembly of chemical
TA-III is adjacent to and south of TA-V [both are approximately seven miles (11 km) south of TA-I]. TA-III facilities include extensive design-test facilities such as rocket sled tracks, centrifuges and a radiant heat facility. Other facilities in TA-III include a paper destructor, the Melting and Solidification Laboratory and the Radioactive and Mixed Waste Management Facility (RMWMF). RMWMF serves as central processing facility for packaging and storage of low-level and mixed waste. The remediation of the Chemical Waste Landfill, which started in September 1998, is an ongoing activity in TA-III.
TA-IV, located approximately 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) south of TA-I, consists of several inertial-confinement fusion research and pulsed power research facilities, including the High Energy Radiation Megavolt Electron Source (Hermes-III), the Z Facility, the Short Pulsed High Intensity Nanosecond X-Radiator (SPHINX) Facility, and the Saturn Accelerator. TA-IV also hosts some computer science and cognition research.
TA-V contains two research
SNL/NM also has test areas outside of the five technical areas listed above. These test areas, collectively known as Coyote Test Field, are located southeast of TA-III and/or in the canyons on the west side of the Manzanita Mountains. Facilities in the Coyote Canyon Test Field include the Solar Tower Facility (34.9623 N, 106.5097 W), the Lurance Canyon Burn Site and the Aerial Cable Facility.
Open-source software
In the 1970s, the Sandia, Los Alamos, Air Force Weapons Laboratory Technical Exchange Committee initiated the development of the
Today, Sandia National Laboratories is home to several open-source software projects:
- FCLib (Feature Characterization Library) is a library for the identification and manipulation of coherent regions or structures from spatio-temporal data.[33] FCLib focuses on providing data structures that are "feature-aware" and support feature-based analysis.[33] It is written in C and developed under a "BSD-like" license.[34]
- LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator) is a molecular dynamics library that can be used to model parallel atomic/subatomic processes at large scale.[35] It is produced under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and distributed on the Sandia National Laboratories website as well as SourceForge.[35]
- LibVMI is a library for simplifying the reading and writing of memory in running virtual machines, a technique known as virtual machine introspection.[36] It is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.[36]
- MapReduce-MPI Library is an implementation of MapReduce for distributed-memory parallel machines, utilizing the Message Passing Interface (MPI) for communication. It is developed under a modified Berkeley Software Distribution license.[37]
- MultiThreaded Graph Library (MTGL) is a collection of graph-based algorithms designed to take advantage of parallel, shared-memory architectures such as the Cray XMT, Symmetric Multiprocessor (SMP) machines, and multi-core workstations.[38][39] It is developed under a BSD License.[38]
- ParaView is a cross-platform application for performing data analysis and visualization.[40] It is a collaborative effort, developed by Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratories, and the United States Army Research Laboratory, and funded by the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program.[40] It is developed under a BSD license.[40]
- Pyomo is a python-based optimization Mathematical Programming Language which supports most commercial and open-source solver engines.
- Soccoro, a collaborative effort with
- Titan Informatics Toolkit is a collection of cross-platform libraries for ingesting, analyzing, and displaying scientific and informatics data.New BSD license.[42]
- Modified BSD License.[44]
- Xyce is an open source, SPICE-compatible, high-performance analog circuit simulator, capable of solving extremely large circuit problems.[45]
- Charon is a TCAD simulator which was open-sourced by Sandia in 2020.[46][47][48] It is significant as previously there were no major TCAD simulators for large-scale simulations that were open source.[47]
In addition, Sandia National Laboratories collaborates with Kitware, Inc. in developing the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), a cross-platform graphics and visualization software suite.[49] This collaboration has focused on enhancing the information visualization capabilities of VTK and has in turn fed back into other projects such as ParaView and Titan.[40][42][49]
Self-guided bullet
On January 30, 2012, Sandia announced that it successfully test-fired a self-guided
Supercomputers
List of
- Intel Paragon XP/S 140, 1993 to ?
- ASCI Red, 1997 to 2006
- Red Storm, 2005 to 2012
- Cielo, 2010 to 2016
- Trinity, 2015 to current
- Astra, 2018 to current, based on ARM processors
- Attaway, 2019 to current
See also
- Titan Rain
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Test Readiness Program
- Jess programming language
- VxInsight
- Decontamination foam
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Further reading
- Computerworld article "Reverse Hacker Case Gets Costlier for Sandia Labs"
- San Jose Mercury News article "Ill Lab Workers Fight For Federal Compensation"
- Wired Magazine article "Linkin Park's Mysterious Cyberstalker"
- Slate article "Stalking Linkin Park" Archived August 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- FedSmith.com article "Linkin Park, Nuclear Research and Obsession"
- The Santa Fe New Mexican article "Judge Upholds $4.3 Million Jury Award to Fired Sandia Lab Analyst"[permanent dead link]
- TIME article "A Security Analyst Wins Big in Court"
- The Santa Fe New Mexican article "Jury Awards Fired Sandia Analyst $4.3 Million"
- HPCwire article "Sandia May Unwittingly Have Sold Supercomputer to China"
- Federal Computer Weekly article "Intercepts: Chinese Checkers"[permanent dead link]
- Congressional Research Service report "China: Suspected Acquisition of U.S. Nuclear Weapon Secrets"
- Sandia National Laboratory Cooperative Monitoring Center article "Engagement with China"
- BBC News "Security Overhaul at US Nuclear Labs"
- Fox News "Iowa Republican Demands Tighter Nuclear Lab Security"
- UPI article "Workers Get Bonus After Being Disciplined"
- IndustryWeek article "3D Silicon Photonic Lattice"
- October 6, 2005 The Santa Fe New Mexican article "Sandia Security Managers Recorded Workers' Calls"
- May 17, 2002 New Mexico Business Weekly article "Sandia National Laboratories Says it's Worthless"