Sandia National Laboratories has awarded Intel‘s federal arm a contract to research and develop novel advanced memory technologies to help the U.S. maintain its nuclear weapons stockpile.
Intel Federal will work with Sandia as well as the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories on the development of memory systems capable of accelerating simulation and computing applications in support of stockpile stewardship and management efforts, Sandia said Monday.
The project focuses on enhancing future memory technologies’ bandwidth and latency characteristics to boost application performance, according to James Laros III, project lead and a distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia.
Intel Fellow Josh Fryman said the team is looking at how dynamic random-access memory is organized and coupled with compute platforms to achieve breakthrough performance.
“Mainstream memory isn’t designed for today’s compute platforms, and this multi-year effort will help us to extract orders-of-magnitude performance gains from the basic DRAM design itself, thus enabling a new class of performance across all industry segments,” Fryman said
The project is funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Advanced Simulation and Computing program and is part of the agency’s post-Exascale-Computing-Initiative investment portfolio.
