James H. Laros III is a Distinguished Member of Technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Over his more than 30-year career to date, James has served the United States of America in a number of capacities beginning with four years active duty in the United States Air Force followed by a year in the Air National Guard. James continued his service as a civilian as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative program in Colorado working as a Systems Analyst. James began working at Sandia in 1995 where he has focused on various technical disciplines related to High Performance Computing (HPC) including Hierarchical Mass Storage, file-systems, systems management and systems software, Reliability Availability and Serviceability (RAS) systems and light-weight kernel operating systems. Over the past ten years James has focused on technical leadership in the area of HPC platform architecture. James currently leads many programs including: Vanguard Advanced Architecture Prototype program, Astra Chief Architect and project lead, the Alliance for Extreme Scale Computing (ACES) Crossroads lead architect and deputy program manager, and the Advanced Architecture Testbed program lead. James has won numerous awards including three R&D100 awards.
Awards & Recognition
2020
Ryan Grant, Simon David Hammond, James H. Laros, , Stephen Lecler Olivier, Kevin Pedretti, Harry Lee Ward, Andrew J Younge, Andrew J Younge, , ,
Enabling Power Measurement and Control on Astra: The First Petascale Arm Supercomputer, Conference, Cray Users' Group Annual Technical Conference (CUG'20),
October 28, 2020
2019
James H. Laros, David J. Martinez, Jeffry Brandon Ogden, Matthew Leon Curry, Ryan Grant, Kevin Pedretti, Harry Lee Ward, Andrew J Younge, Simon David Hammond, Ruth Ann Klundt, Randall Don Scott, Andrew J Younge, , ,
ERA Award - Astra Supercomputer Team, Sandia National Laboratories, The Astra Supercomputer Team procured the world's largest high-performance computing system based on the Arm processor, working on a very aggressive schedule to obtain Sandia's fastest computer, meeting several important programmatic and technical milestones.,
February 5, 2019
2018
James H. Laros, Kevin Pedretti, Ryan Grant, Stephen Lecler Olivier, , Harry Lee Ward, Andrew J Younge, Andrew J Younge, , ,
R&D 100 Award - Power API, R&D 100,
November 16, 2018
James H. Laros, Kevin Pedretti, Ryan Grant, Stephen Lecler Olivier, , Harry Lee Ward, Andrew J Younge, Andrew J Younge, , ,
R&D 100 Special Recognition: Corporate Social Responsibility - Power API, R&D 100,
November 16, 2018
James H. Laros, Simon Hammond, Matthew Curry, Robert J. Hoekstra, Ryan Grant, Kevin Pedretti, Harry Lee Ward, Kenneth F. Alvin, Ashley Avallone, Andrew J Younge, Randall Don Scott, Ruth Ann Klundt, Stephen T. Monk, Jesse Hubert Livesay, Jeffry Brandon Ogden, David J. Martinez, Michael J. Aguilar, Robert Wilcox, HPE, Kevin Jameson, ,
Defense Programs Award of Excellence, Exceptional Achievement, National Nuclear Security Administration, Astra, first petascale Arm Supercomputer,
October 1, 2018
2017
James H. Laros, Kevin Pedretti, Anthony Michael Agelastos, Ann C. Gentile, Ryan Grant, Karl Scott Hemmert, Robert J. Hoekstra, , Stephen Lecler Olivier, Christian Robert Trott, David B. Karelitz, Simon Hammond, ,
2017 Defense Programs Award of Excellence, National Nuclear Security Administration, Trinity High Performance Computing Team for significant contributions to the Stockpile Stewardship Program,
October 1, 2017
2016
James H. Laros, Kevin Pedretti, Suzanne M. Kelly, Michael J. Levenhagen, Ryan Grant, Stephen Lecler Olivier, ,
Public Good Innovator Award, Sandia National Laboratories,
June 1, 2016
2012
James H. Laros, Kevin Pedretti, Suzanne M. Kelly, Courtenay T. Vaughan, Wei Shu, University of New Mexico, ,
Best Paper, 20th High Performance Computing Symposium, Conference,
March 15, 2012
2011
Douglas Doerfler, Sue Kelly, Kevin Pedretti, Jim Laros, Bob Ballance, Ruth Klundt, John Noe, Constantine "Dino" Pavlakos, Joel Stevenson, Paul Lin, Lisa Ice, Courtenay Vaughan, W. Alan Scott, Ron Brightwell, Jim Ang, Sudip Dosanjh, Kenneth Alvin, Brian Barrett, Karen Haskell, K. Scott Hemmert, Joseph Maestas, Susan Mcree, John Naegle, Mahesh Rajan, David Rogers, Sandra Warner, James H. Laros, Andrew D Baczewski, ,
Employee Recognition Team Award, Sandia National Laboratories, For the dedicated and sustained effort required to bring up the Cielo computer platform and complete acceptance testing within schedule,
July 9, 2011
James H. Laros, Kevin T. Pedretti, Suzanne M. Kelly, James A. Ang, Ron Brightwell, John P. Vandyke, Courtenay T. Vaughan, Robert A. Ballance, , , , , , , , , , ,
2011 National Nuclear Security Administration Defense Programs Award of Excellence, National Nuclear Security Administration,
September 1, 2011
James H. Laros, Kevin T. Pedretti, Suzanne M Kelly, ,
Individual Performance Award, Organization 01420,
August 1, 2011
James H. Laros, Kevin T. Pedretti, Suzanne M. Kelly, John P. Vandyke, Ron Brightwell, Robert B Ballance, , , , , , , , , , ,
NNSA Environmental Stewardship Award Recipient, National Nuclear Security Administration,
March 1, 2011
James H. Laros, ,
SBIR Award Panel, Department of Energy, ASCR,
February 8, 2011
2010
Bob Ballance, Bob Benner, Courtenay Vaughan, Cynthia Phillips, Gerald Quinlan, Sandia (retired), James H Laros, Jim Tomkins, Sandia (retired), John VanDyke, Lee Ann Riesen, Lee Ward, Len Stans, Sandia (retired), Linda Bonnefoy-Lev, Michael Levenhagen, Patricia Brown, Paul Iwanchuk, LANL, Rolf Riesen, Ruth Klundt, Suzanne Kelly, Trammell Hudson, Contractor, Vitus Leung, William J. Camp, Sandia (retired), Vitus J. Leung, ,
Excellence in Technology Transfer, Federal Laboratory Consortium, Red Storm Massively Parallel Processor,
April 29, 2010
James H. Laros, ,
Defense Programs Award of Excellence, National Nuclear Security Administration ,
March 1, 2010
James H. Laros, ,
Excellence in Technology Transfer Award, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer,
February 1, 2010
2009
Ronald Brightwell, Kurt Brian Ferreira, Suzanne M. Kelly, James H. Laros, Kevin Pedretti, James Tomkins, John P. Vandyke, Courtenay T. Vaughan, Robert Ballance, Trammell Hudson, ,
R&D 100 Award, R&D Magazine, One of the 100 Most Technologically Significant New Products of the Year,
June 1, 2009
Brian J. Martin, Andrew J Leiker, James H. Laros, Douglas Doerfler, ,
Best Student Paper, The 10th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing, Conference,
March 15, 2009
2006
James H. Laros, ,
NOVA Award, Lockheed Martin, Red Storm Design and Development Team,
February 1, 2006
James H. Laros, ,
Sandia Meritorious Achievement Award, Sandia National Laboratories, Red Storm Design, Development and Deployment Team,
February 1, 2006
1998
James H. Laros, ,
Sandia Meritorious Achievement Award, Sandia National Laboratories, TeraFLOP Computer Installation Team,
February 1, 1998