Attaway Supercomputer Timelapse

In 2008, the President of the United States asked engineers to assess the feasibility of shooting down an orbiting US satellite from a moving Navy vessel in the open ocean. It was called Project “Burnt Frost,” a six-week priority mission to address a potential National Security threat. Among the engineers assigned to this project was Steve Attaway, a Sandia National Laboratories high-performance computing (HPC) expert. Without his expertise and the use of HPCs, the mission wouldn’t have been successful. T