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January 2011

Small team carries large load

January 31st, 2011 Updated: November 30th, 2011

Sandia National Laboratories computer scientist Ronald Minnich calls the desktop-extension supercomputing project a large effort with a small team. “To do it with only four other people is pretty unusual,” Minnich says. “I would assume a normal company would allocate at least 10 times as many people to the effort. A lot of things we’ve [...]

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This is what it might look like if  a user's laptop and supercomputer had access to a common set of files. (Image courtesy of Ronald Minnich, Sandia National Laboratories.)

Laptop supercomputing

January 31st, 2011 Updated: November 30th, 2011

A small team led by Sandia National Laboratories is attempting to virtually put the world’s most powerful supercomputers on a user’s own desktop or laptop.

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