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U.S. unveils world's fastest supercomputer
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Monday that its new supercomputer "Roadrunner" had successfully performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second -- the fastest in the world.
Roadrunner will be used by the DoE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to perform calculations that vastly improve the ability to certify that the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile is reliable without conducting underground nuclear tests.
Roadrunner will be housed at NNSA's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The laboratory worked with manufacturer IBM for six years to develop the super machine, which can meet "the nation's evolving national security needs."
The 100-million-dollar machine has redefined the frontier of supercomputing by crossing the one petaflop threshold. A "flop" is an acronym meaning floating-point operations per second. One petaflop is 1,000 trillion operations per second.
If each of the 6 billion people on earth had a hand calculator and worked together on a calculation 24 hours per day, 365 days a year, it would take 46 years to do what Roadrunner would do in one day.
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Radioactive colonization and the University of California in New Mexico
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The human cost in New Mexico of nuclear weapons development and the nuclear power industry.
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Mother's Day Peace Celebration in Los Alamos, New Mexico
Mother's Day Peace Gathering
on Mother's Day Eve
Ashley Pond, Los Alamos
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
4:00 to 7:00 PM
Bring the whole family and join the students of the
Los Alamos High School Coalition for Peace
as we acknowledge and celebrate those people and organizations
that promote non-violent solutions to problems and conflicts.
Keynote Speaker at 4:30
Lee Gordon - Co-founder of Hand in Hand Schools in Israel
that bring Arab and Jewish students together
to learn at the same school - each in their own languages -
Learning Together, Living Together
Prepare to be inspired when you look at their website.
http://www.handinhandk12.org/
The Second Annual Mother's Day Peace Day Gathering
will feature activities for children and adults -
Music, Universal Dances of Peace, Origami Peace Crane Folding,
Face Painting, Exhibits - More.
Message from Shannyn at NetWorkearth.org
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Protestors remember WWII bombings with prayer-filled demonstration
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Several dozen protestors from around the country converged here earlier this month to mark the 62nd anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II.
By Rebecca Bostic, www.catholicsun.org
Copyright 2006-2007 The Catholic Sun.
More pics of 2007 Los Alamos Peace Protest at - http://flickr.com/search/?q=%22peace%22%20%22los%20alam...
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Deadly exposure: Cancers plague children of the Manhattan Project
The New Mexican's cover story tells of how children in Los Alamos were another "collateral damage" of the government that failed to protect U.S. citizens from toxic exposure.
Sue Vorenberg | The New Mexican
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"On its unclassified surface, the quiet mountain town of Los Alamos seemed an idyllic place to raise children in the 1940s and 1950s.
Young boys would run down the canyons, chasing paper sailboats as they splashed through trickling streams. They'd fish, or try to catch a glimpse of wild deer as they built tents to camp in the wilderness behind their homes in the sealed community.
Little girls would splash in puddles on the sidewalk in the late spring rains, and hug their daddies when they came home from their jobs — covered in the toxic and sometimes radioactive materials they secretly worked with during the day.
"We thought we were in a good place because it was a closed city and our parents didn't have to worry about us getting kidnapped," said Lynne Loss, 65, who lived in Los Alamos from 1949 to 1957. "We had no idea what was going on."
Contact Sue Vorenberg at 986-3072 or svorenberg@sfnewmexican.com.
Photo by William H. Regan/Palace of the Governors, Negative No. 059227
An aerial view of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory around 1950 shows what appears to be an idyllic place. But some people who lived as children in Los Alamos in the 1940s and ’50s say the area was filled with toxic waste. A lawsuit filed last month charges the lab with negligence and wrongful death.
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Los Alamos' Black Hole
Coudal Partners has posted part one of a five-part documentary about the famous "Black Hole" surplus store in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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