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SEATTLE, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today announced that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently broke its previous graph size record set in the June 2011 Graph500 competition with a single node server containing 12 TB of ioMemory technology from Fusion-io. The LLNL system, called "Leviathan," is based on a four-socket 40-core Intel Xeon 7500 processor, nine Fusion ioDrive Duos, and one ioDrive. By storing the graph in Fusion-io's direct-attached high...

LLNL, LANL and Sandia initiate 2PetaFlop/s Xtreme-Xâ„¢ Supercomputer deployment based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 Family Seattle, CA (PRWEB) November 14, 2011 Appro (http://www.appro.com), a leading provider of supercomputing solutions, announces today that the three U.S. national laboratories under contract with the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) initiated deployment of the next-generation, Appro Xtreme-Xâ„¢...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on Competitiveness is proud to announce that a one-year pilot program called the hpc4energy incubator made its debut at the Council's Technology Leadership and Strategy Initiative (TLSI) workshop in Annapolis, Maryland on October 24, 2011. Developed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the aim of the program is to increase the rate at which energy technology is being developed - through the power of HPC - by...

Climate models have a hard time representing clouds accurately because they lack the spatial resolution necessary to accurately simulate the billowy air masses. But Livermore scientists and international collaborators have developed a new tool that will help scientists better represent the clouds observed in the sky in climate models. Traditionally, observations from satellites infer the properties of clouds from the radiation field (reflection of sunlight back into space, or thermal...

COVINGTON, Ky., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ('LLNL') and Valley Forge Composite Technologies, Inc. ('Valley Forge', OTCBB: VLYF) announce that an Exclusive License has been executed between the parties for multiple patents covering an advanced accelerator-detector complex for high efficiency detection of hidden explosives. Valley Forge along with technical oversight by LLNL assisted the Russian team in the development. This CRADA project provides...

PHILADELPHIA, June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CDI Corp. (NYSE: CDI) announced today that its CDI-Aerospace division has entered into a long term service agreement with Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC in support of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, CA. The service agreement has a term of five years. With this service agreement, CDI-Aerospace will provide Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition and Photon Science Directorate with...

Scientists from the scientific governing committees of physics and chemistry have added two new elements -- yet to be named -- to the periodic table, reports The Associated Press (AP). The elements, currently known only as 114 and 116, are both highly radioactive and, with respective atomic weights of 289 and 292, are now the heaviest elements on the periodic table of elements, bumping copernicium and roentgenium down the list of heavyweights. The two radioactive elements exist only for a...

By Anne M Stark, LLNLBy combining high pressure with high temperature, Livermore researchers have created a nanocyrstalline diamond aerogel that could improve the optics for something as big as a telescope or as small as the lenses in eyeglasses.Aerogels are a class of materials that exhibit the lowest density, thermal conductivity, refractive index and sound velocity of any bulk solid. Aerogels are among the most versatile materials available for technical applications due to their many...

Anne M Stark, LLNLSkin cells shed from livestock infected with foot and mouth disease could very well spread the disease.In a new paper appearing in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist Michael Dillon proposed that virus-infected skin cells could be a source of infectious foot and mouth disease virus aerosols. His proposal is based on the facts that foot and mouth disease virus is found in skin and that airborne skin cells are known to...

The University of Chicago's Flash Center for Computational Science released a major new version of supercomputer code, called FLASH 4-alpha, on April 29. Based on previous software for simulating exploding stars, this is the first version of the FLASH code that has extensive capabilities for simulating high-energy density physics experiments.The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration Advanced Simulation and Computing Program has funded the addition of the new...