Computing and information sciences
- Red Storm was successfully upgraded to include 38,400 processing elements through the introduction of new quad-core AMD Opteron processors.
- The peak processing power of Red Storm rose to 284 trillion operations per second
- It also is in the top 10 of the TOP500 list
- developed a new hash algorithm and submitted it to the National Institute of Standards and Technology for consideration as a new national standard.
- Hash functions are extremely important for authenticating data. We use one every time we make an Internet purchase, for example. Recently the current standard family of hash functions used for Internet authentication was partially compromised by Chinese mathematicians, prompting the call for a competition to find a better solution.
- Sandia convened a meeting in Washington of 85 leaders from industry, government, and academia to confirm the need for computation-based engineering (CBE) as a tool for US competitiveness.
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