ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The National Nuclear Security Administration has dedicated Sandia National Laboratories' new National Security Computing Center.
The center will be used for top-secret level work that requires high performance computing.
National Nuclear Security Administrator Thomas D' Agostino says its the first center of its kind in the nation.
The agency says its capabilities will help solve such national security problems as cyber-defense, assessing vulnerability and space systems threats.
D'Agostino says using supercomputing capabilities for intelligence work demonstrates how the nation's investment in nuclear security also provides tools to tackle broader challenges.
His agency's Office of Advanced Simulating and Computing uses computer models and simulations to understand and predict behaviors of aging weapons.
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