High Performance Computing

Overview

Sandia National Laboratories is known around the world for its expertise and leadership in High Performance Computing (HPC), a capability critical to its national security missions. Our HPC Group manages and operates Sandia’s large-scale and exploratory computing resources that support the programs associated with our diverse mission areas.

Key focus areas include:

  • Resources available for scientific computing, modeling, and simulation
  • Large-scale systems for data analytics, cloud computing, and emulytics
  • New computer architectures in our advanced systems test beds to guide future platform designs
  • Designing and developing innovative system management and operational methodologies to ensure the performance and efficiency of current and future systems
  • Advancing the Field of Computing through R&D and collaborative partnerships

Production HPC

Sandia is a world leader in HPC, developing solutions to the most sweeping and critical challenges our country faces. Our production HPC systems are used by our researchers in mission areas including nuclear stockpile stewardship, hypersonics, machine learning, energy, material design, and more.

HPC Development

Sandia’s R&D in Monitoring and Operational Data Analytics provides unprecedented run-time resource utilization insights and performance understanding. Data-driven insights improve computing efficiency today and will drive autonomous operations in the future.

The Sandia Mass Storage Systems (SMSS) team supports powerful, next-generation storage solutions for critical data retention. The systems that enable this retention are equipped to process and house data at an extreme scale. This means petabytes, or potentially even exabytes, of data movement and storage.

The Heterogenous Advanced Architectures Platforms (HAAPs) Team explores pre-production high performance computing architectures in collaboration with vendors, researchers, and code developers to assess their suitability to become the next extreme-scale computer architecture for the NNSA Tri-labs.