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Los Alamos National Laboratory (or LANL; previously known at various times as Site Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), located in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The laboratory is one of the largest science and technology institutions in the world that conducts multidisciplinary research for fields such as national security, outer space, renewable energy, medicine, nanotechnology, and supercomputing. It is the largest institution and the largest employer in northern New Mexico with approximately 12,500 LANS employees plus approximately 3,300 contractor personnel. Additionally, there are roughly 120 DOE employees stationed at the laboratory to provide federal oversight of LANL's work and operations. Approximately one-third of the laboratory's technical staff members are physicists, one-fourth are engineers, one-sixth are chemists and materials scientists, and the remainder work in mathematics and computational science, biology, geoscience, and other disciplines. Professional scientists and students also come to Los Alamos as visitors to participate in scientific projects. The staff collaborates with universities and industry in both basic and applied research to develop resources for the future. The annual budget is approximately US$2.2 billion. Los Alamos is one of two laboratories in the United States where classified work towards the design of nuclear weapons is undertaken. The other, since 1952, is Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License How much is 1.71 petaFLOPS (maximum speed of IBM Roadrunner) equivalent to in gigahertz (gHz)? Q. Roadrunner is a supercomputer built by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA. Currently the world's fastest computer, the US$133-million Roadrunner is designed for a peak performance of 1.7 petaflops. IBM built the computer for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration. It is a hybrid design with 12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i CPUs and 6,480 AMD Opteron dual-core processors in specially designed server blades connected by Infiniband. The Roadrunner uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux along with Fedora as its operating systems and is managed with xCAT distributed computing software. It also uses the Open MPI Message Passing Interface implementation. Roadrunner occupies approximately 6,000… [cont.] Asked by Corruptor Scientist AeD - Tue May 19 07:28:00 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. 1.7 thousand trillion floating operations per second.Floating-point is considered to be a method of encoding real numbers within the limits of finite precision available on computers. Now we have the question what exactly is a floating point? The answer; A floating-point number is expressed as a basic number, an exponent, and a number base which is usually ten but may also be 2. so what this all means is... In layman's terms the best way I can describe the speed of a petaflop to you is; A petaflops is equal to 10 times the speed of all the networked computers in the US combined!!! Answered by Porky - Tue May 19 07:57:47 2009 What if all liberals and people who believed in evolution left the country? Q. What have people who've called themselves conservative in their own life ever done for humankind, for anything, in any way, shape, or form? I use to work and live in and around Los Alamos National Laboratories. I can say that all the scientists I've met believe in evolution, and most were liberal. Conservatives want a strong military, yet don't want you to receive an education in liberal colleges and universities. 100% of all top 30 schools are considered liberal and yield most of the top scientist's, engineers, mathematicians, and computer designers. The same "godless" people that are destroying America. Conservatives are also against immigration. So, 1000's of NASA's and the militaries top scientists would have to be shipped back to… [cont.] Asked by Matt D - Thu Apr 9 11:14:03 2009 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments A. If everyone who challenged the status quo, wanted to expand our rights and freedoms, and had sound scientific proof for their ideas left the country, the country would become a backward, fundamentalist totalitarian regime. Answered by Goblin - Thu Apr 9 11:24:12 2009 Remember when Dad said playing video games will get you nowhere?
Q. If you work for Sony Playstation, you could be working with the fastest computer in the world. I cut & pasted this from Yahoo News. A supercomputer with components originally developed for Sony's PlayStation video-game console has become the world's fastest computer. IBM said the computer, nicknamed Roadrunner, can process more than 1,000 trillion calculations per second, known as a petaflop. Built for the Energy Department's Los Alamos lab with off-the-shelf components, Roadrunner is named for the state bird of New Mexico and will be used to monitor the U.S. nuclear-weapons stockpile. Roadrunner cost $133 million and is twice as fast as IBM's Blue Gene system, which had been considered the world's most powerful. The Blue Gene is at… [cont.] Asked by J.B. Holiday - Sat Jun 14 16:49:50 2008 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments A. Yeah, I saw that article. I want to play Call of Duty 4 on it...NOW!!! Answered by Karma Police - Mon Jun 16 09:15:09 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Los Alamos National Laboratory"  news.google.com SmallTownPapers News Service ... monks from Temple Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Order on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound, began their walk at Los Alamos National Laboratory on July 5. ... news.google.com KOAT.com los alamos , NM - Los Alamos National Laboratory is winding down a project that looked for historical lab records dealing with lab chemical and radioative ... and more » news.google.com Inteletex ARS, in collaboration with the Los Alamos National Laboratory , New Mexico, and the Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, has provided new information ... From Google News Search: "Los Alamos National Laboratory"  architectural-models.com 275px x 353px | 27.50kB [source page]  lanl.gov 535px x 640px | 80.10kB [source page] enlarge image Linton Brooks National Nuclear Security Administration administrator congratulates and hands a plaque to Acting Deputy Laboratory Director Don Cobb during a ceremony last Saturday  lanl.gov 570px x 640px | 80.40kB [source page] View most sent Laboratory Fellow Emeritus Louis Rosen recounts his early experiences at the Laboratory during a seminar Monday at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center at Technical Area 53 From Yahoo Image Search: "Los Alamos National Laboratory"  careers.aps.org unknown Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:22:00 GM Job position for Postdoctoral Position Plasma Physics with . Los Alamos National Laboratory. .  lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com Frank Young Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:27:00 GM No doubt some of these overruns are not due to LLNL or . LANL. . Things such as extreme hsssles in the EIS that DARHT got hit with were part of the problem. BUT, by for not the reason for the majority of the problem. ... lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com Frank Young Fri, 29 May 2009 15:31:00 GM In the event that LANS is unable to prevail on its claim, NNSA, as the landowner for . LANL. facilities, intends to pursue recoupment for the cost of the repairs to the parking structure and the fire protection system, the expenses ... From Google Blog Search: "Los Alamos National Laboratory" |
