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People
Total employees: 13,137
Triad National Security, LLC: 9,397
Centerra Group, LLC Los Alamos (Guard Force): 281
Compa, Staff and support contractors: 478
Students: 1,323
Unionized craft workers: 1,160
Post doctoral researchers: 498
Place
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 34.7 square miles of DOE-owned property.
1,280 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 9 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $14.2 billion
Budget
FY17:
63% Weapons programs
10% Nonproliferation programs
4% Safeguards and Security
7% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
3% Energy and other programs
9% Work for Others
Demographics
Triad and students only
35% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 43
65% male, 35% female
45% minorities
67% university degrees
27% hold undergraduate degrees
19% hold master’s degrees
21% have earned a PhD
Awards
145 R&D100 awards
34 E.O. Lawrence Awards
9 Presidential Early Career Awards
3 Glenn Seaborg Medals
Edward Teller Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
Directions
Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.
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As of Aug. 18, 2020
Translation software enables efficient DNA data storage - 4/1/21
Machine learning blazes path to reliable near-term quantum computers - 2/17/21
Los Alamos announces details of new computational storage deployment - 11/16/20
Los Alamos National Laboratory brings next-generation HPC to the fight against COVID-19 - 10/20/20
Los Alamos, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NVIDIA partner to speed up scientific computing - 10/6/20
New algorithm could unleash the power of quantum computers - 10/5/20
Los Alamos announces details of new Crossroads supercomputer - 9/30/20
Los Alamos takes new HPE Apollo 80 System on a test drive - 9/1/20
Foiling illicit cryptocurrency mining with artificial intelligence - 8/20/20
Artificial brains may need sleep too - 6/8/20
Texas A&M University System National Laboratories Office and Los Alamos National Laboratory partner to make large data sets easier to handle - 5/4/20
South Africa’s National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System joins Los Alamos’ Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium - 4/9/20
Fifteen organizations join Los Alamos’ Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium in first year - 1/28/20
Los Alamos high-performance computing veteran to chair SC22 - 1/27/20
Los Alamos National Laboratory joins IBM Q Network to explore quantum computing algorithms and education outreach - 1/9/20
Los Alamos AI model wins flu forecasting challenge - 10/22/19
Quantum computers to clarify the connection between the quantum and classical worlds - 7/31/19
Scientists create first billion-atom biomolecular simulation - 4/22/19
Scientific computing in the cloud gets down to Earth - 4/8/19
Handling trillions of supercomputer files just got simpler - 3/14/19
Los Alamos teams with Oak Ridge, EPB to demonstrate next-generation grid security tech - 2/12/19
Los Alamos National Laboratory issues Request for Proposal (RFP) for new supercomputer - 1/31/19
Arctic ice model upgrade to benefit polar research, industry and military - 12/5/18
Los Alamos National Laboratory launches Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium - 11/8/18
Los Alamos pursues efficient computing with Cray, Marvell and Arm - 11/5/18
Computer simulations predict the spread of HIV - 8/1/18
Mapping the body’s battle with Ebola and Zika - 5/14/18
Los Lunas High School students take top award in 28th Annual Supercomputing Challenge - 4/26/18
Student teams showcase year-long computing projects - 4/19/18
Los Alamos releases file index product to software community - 3/22/18
Novel computational biology model accurately describes dynamics of gene expression - 1/31/18
Los Alamos research fundamental to first efficacy study for mosaic HIV-1 preventive vaccine - 11/30/17
Los Alamos’ Trinity Supercomputer lands on two top-10 lists - 11/16/17
Scalable clusters make HPC R&D easy as Raspberry Pi - 11/13/17
Genomic and fluid-flow technologies win regional tech-transfer awards - 8/10/17
Two become one for Trinity in supercomputer partition merge - 7/20/17
‘Charliecloud’ simplifies Big Data supercomputing - 6/7/17
Managing disease spread through accessible modeling - 4/25/17
Students showcase projects at 27th Supercomputing Challenge - 4/20/17
Breaking the supermassive black hole speed limit - 3/21/17
The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announces formation of ECP Industry Council - 2/1/17
Top Los Alamos science stories of 2016 - 12/21/16
Los Alamos honored for industry collaboration in 2016 HPCwire Awards - 11/16/16
The Exascale Computing Project announces $48 million to establish four Exascale Co-Design Centers - 11/11/16
The Exascale Computing Project awards $34 million for software development - 11/10/16
Funding boosts exascale computing research - 9/7/16
Wiring reconfiguration saves millions for Trinity supercomputer - 8/15/16
Los Alamos computational scientist wins 2016 Carcinogenesis Young Investigator Award - 7/11/16
Aspen Elementary, Los Alamos Middle School students take top award in 26th New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge - 4/27/16
Student teams showcase year-long computing projects - 4/19/16
Holistic data analysis and modeling poised to transform protein X-ray crystallography - 3/29/16
Los Alamos National Laboratory and Seagate heat up data archiving for supercomputers - 3/21/16
Machine learning helps discover the most luminous supernova in history - 1/14/16
Top 10 science stories of the year - 12/23/15
Los Alamos to study future computing technology capabilities - 11/20/15
National labs collaborate to shape development of next-generation supercomputers - 11/10/15
Van Andel Research Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop detailed computational model to study lung cancer - 9/14/15
Los Alamos honors computer code team with Feynman Innovation Prize - 7/22/15
Analyzing ocean mixing reveals insight on climate - 6/24/15
Two Los Alamos scientists honored with E.O. Lawrence Awards - 5/21/15
Duo at Santa Fe’s Monte del Sol Charter School takes top award in 25th New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge - 4/21/15
Supercomputing Challenge draws more than 200 students to Los Alamos National Laboratory - 4/16/15
Los Alamos computer simulation improves offshore drill rig safety - 3/24/15
Software speeds detection of diseases and cancer-treatment targets - 12/1/14
100 supercomputers later, Los Alamos high-performance computing still supports national security mission - 11/12/14
Secure computing for the ‘Everyman' - 9/2/14
Los Alamos National Laboratory launches new student app - 7/15/14
High-performance computer system installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory - 6/17/14
High-Performance Computing at Los Alamos announces milestone for key/value middleware - 5/26/14
La Cueva High School team takes top award in 24th New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge - 4/22/14
Students descend on Los Alamos National Laboratory April 21-22 for Supercomputing Challenge Expo and Awards Ceremony - 4/16/14
Magnetic charge crystals imaged in artificial spin ice - 8/27/13
La Cueva High School team takes top award in 23rd New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge - 4/23/13
Students descend on Los Alamos National Laboratory April 21-23 for Supercomputing Challenge expo and awards ceremony - 4/16/13
End of the road for Roadrunner - 3/29/13
Quantum cryptography put to work for electric grid security - 2/14/13
Evolutionary theory, web-search technology combine for DNA analysis - 10/4/12
Los Alamos researcher named as American Chemical Society Fellow - 8/30/12
Manzano High School student wins top award in 22nd New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge - 4/24/12
Students descend on LANL April 23-24 for Supercomputing Challenge - 4/17/12
Collaboration to advance high-performance computing - 12/21/11
Scientists model brain structure to help computers recognize objects - 12/20/11
From detonation to diapers: Los Alamos computer codes at core of advanced manufacturing tools - 7/27/11
Supercomputing Challenge top winners: Los Alamos schools - 4/26/11
Laboratory hosts Supercomputing Challenge April 25-26 - 4/20/11
