HardWired is a quarterly newsletter designed to communicate activities within the high-performance computing (HPC) programs at the three Department of Energy Defense Program laboratories: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL).

This newsletter will help researchers at those facilities keep in touch with their colleagues at other sites. In addition to technical content this newsletter will help to describe the HPC community to interested people outside of those labs, including the graduate students in the Department of Energy High-Performance Computer Science Fellowship (DOE HPCSF) program, while also introducing students in that program to members of the laboratory community.

HardWired will discuss the world-class hardware at the labs; describe interesting HPC problems; familiarize the readers with HPC professionals at the labs; and include information about DOE HPCSF graduate fellows. Four issues will be published each year. Each of the Defense Program laboratories will be featured in one issue while the fourth issue will focus on the DOE HPCSF fellows. Each issue will include HPC-related news at each of the laboratories as well as information about the graduate fellows.

To be most successful, HardWired requires the active cooperation of laboratory technical staff. Please use this newsletter to publicize seminars, describe current work, provide information about job openings, and let the community know about your new hardware. Submissions can be addressed to Martin Edelson at  .

The DOE HPCSF program was established in 1999 to meet the nation’s growing need for computer science professionals and to encourage the development of the next generation of leaders in high-performance computing. It is jointly funded by LANL, LLNL, and SNL and provides up to four years of funding to students pursuing the doctorate in computer science with a focus on high-performance computing. The fellowship provides an opportunity to work on important problems in science, with unique access to leading-edge HPC systems and tools. As part of the DOE HPCSF program, students perform an extended research practicum at one of the three Defense Program laboratories under the supervision of a laboratory technical staff member.