Data-Enabled Scientific Computing
The Data-Enabled Scientific Computing (DESC) Division architects and operates innovative supercomputers for thousands of researchers and educators from hundreds of institutions.
These feature the most advanced CPUs and accelerators, innovative interconnects, data storage, AI capabilities, and distributed systems. DESC manages science gateways, the campus cluster, and enables use of the commercial cloud. Funded by NSF, NIH, DOE, and industry, DESC researchers lead research involving cyberinfrastructure, all areas of domain sciences and engineering, and AI. They mentor students (K-12, undergrad, grad), lead training and outreach activities, collaborate with cyberinfrastructure and domain science researchers through joint proposals, and work with industry partners.
“DESC architects and manages a variety of supercomputers and enables research, education and training for tens of thousands of students and researchers spanning various career stages and science and engineering fields. Research done by DESC researchers democratizes access and use of supercomputing resources, data, commercial cloud and software and allows scientific codes and workflows to optimally utilize cyberinfrastructure for innovation and societal impact.”
Amit Majumdar, DESC Division Director
EXPERTISE
- Cyberinfrastructure software and services
- Computational and data science across domains
- Data provenance
- HPC design and architecture
- Implementing science gateways
- Performance optimization
- Scalability analysis
- Benchmarking of scientific applications
SERVICES
- Benchmarking
- Computing Cycles
- Scientific Code
- Parallelization
- Performance
- Scalability
