News: 2024 Archive

Expanse Supercomputer to Expand Training for Chemistry Faculty, Students Nationwide

ChemCompute, a free web-based platform powered by supercomputers including SDSC's Expanse, has enabled over 110,000 students to perform...

Supercomputer Sims Illustrate Impact of Ocean Waves on Offshore Wind Turbine Efficiency

New insights could help optimize power generation in ocean-based wind farms by revealing how different types of waves alter wind flows around...

Scientists Combine Immersive Technology and Collaboration to Address Climate Challenges

New initiative called “EcoViz” enables clear and compelling visualizations of environmental data from fire to floods.

San Diego Supercomputer Center Receives Honors in 2024 BigDATAwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

The National Data Platform received the coveted award given to leaders in global data science, AI and advanced analytics.

San Diego Supercomputer Center Receives NSF Grant to Enable AI Research on NVIDIA DGX Cloud Resources

Grant benefits NAIRR Pilot researchers by enabling SDSC to create custom research environments using cloud platforms that drive innovation at an...

San Diego Supercomputer Center Receives Honors in 2024 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

SDSC wins two HPCwire Awards at the 2024 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC24), in...

Congressional App Challenge Inspires San Diego’s Next Generation of Innovators

The hands-on event served as an opportunity for middle and high school students to not only improve their technical skills but also explore the...

UC San Diego’s Data Planet Initiative Marks Next Phase of Growth and Leadership

The Data Planet Initiative provides PhD students with opportunities to work on real-world, data-centric projects. Under Associate Professor Jingbo...

UC San Diego Mountaintop Cameras Provide Insight to Scarcely Understood Wildfire Phenomenon

HPWREN's sturdy fire-resistant cameras atop Santiago Peak captured images during the Airport Fire that helped researchers identify...

Open Storage Network Welcomes New Campus Computing Partners

OSN strives to provide low-cost, quality, sustainable distributed storage cloud for the research community. Over the past few years, the OSN...

Students Use Expanse at UC San Diego to Study Bolivian Pink River Dolphins

Undergraduates assembled and annotated the complete mitochondrial genomes of the pink dolphins, which can be used to study phylogenetic...

UC San Diego Doctoral Graduate Recognized for Achievement in Astronomy

UC San Diego Alumnus Roman Gerasimov's award winning dissertation focused on the evolution of atmospheres and chemistry of ancient stellar...

2024 CORE Summit Focuses on Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Food Systems

The event brings together cross-sector researchers and practitioners to explore opportunities for innovative solutions that contribute to a more...

Study Links Blood-clotting Protein to Impacts on Lungs, Brain in Acute and Long COVID Patients

Fibrin-driven inflammation may be the key to understanding the connection between COVID-19 and clotting issues, and to developing a therapy to...

San Diego Supercomputer Center and CENIC Work to Expand AI Education Infrastructure in California

SDSC and CENIC have developed a prescient AI education infrastructure called CENIC AIR for K-12 education, public libraries, community colleges,...

Researchers Apply Biological Factors to System that Mimics Natural Processes for Advanced Computing

Exercise is known to improve brain function and one major reason is due to the skeletal muscle’s capability to secrete specific biologic...

WHPC@SDSC Speaker Series Features SDSC Nancy Wilkins-Diehr

As a trailblazer in SDSC's academic and research space, Wilkins-Diehr shared her experiences from a productive career in the HPC community.

OpenTopography Receives $4 Million to Support AI-Ready Access to Topographic Data for Research and Education

The NSF award will support cyberinfrastructure development to help advance understanding of a changing earth.

SDSC Undergraduate Intern Enhances Earthquake Sim Code at Scale

UC San Diego Computer Science Student Akash Palla optimized a real-world earthquake wave propagation code to run more effectively on high...

Expanse Supercomputer Sims Advance Promising Alternative to Chemotherapy

To avoid harming healthy cells during cancer treatments, scientists are researching noninvasive alternatives like photodynamic therapy, which...

Research Team Optimizes Code to Push Nuclear Fusion to the Next Level

Using open-source simulation tools and supercomputers, researchers have discovered new clues to improving superhot plasma confinement within...

Expanse Supercomputer Helps Scientists Develop Promising Model for Studying Flexible Protein Structures

Researchers created diffusion models – a machine learning method that can be trained to generate complex objects, such as three-dimensional...

Community College Students Use Expanse to Gain Experience in Computational Chemistry

Before transferring to a four-year university, students gain real-world experiences in computational chemistry using SDSC's Expanse...

NSF Awards $5.3M Supplement to SDSC to Increase Expanse's AI Capabilities

The expansion will enable researchers to train complex models that can be applied to a wide range of real-life applications such as weather...

UC Regents Approve New School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences at UC San Diego

The new school combines the strengths of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, a national leader in high-performance and data-intensive computing,...

SDSC Mentor Assistance Program Inspires High School Students in STEM

Students were paired with expert mentors throughout the UC San Diego campus from a variety of disciplines to conduct in-depth research projects...

NSF Awards SDSC for Innovative Cosmos System to Democratize the Accelerator Ecosystem

Cosmos' unique chip architecture will broaden access to accelerated computing, which will aid discoveries in AI, astrophysics, genomics, large...

San Diego Supercomputer Center Names Pi Person of the Year

Mahidhar Tatineni has been named the SDSC 2024 Pi Person of the Year. This award, first bestowed to an SDSC researcher in 2013, recognizes an...

SDSC Offers ‘Real World’ Internships to Prepare Students for Big Tech Careers

SDSC's Research Data Services Division onboards undergraduate students for positions in their agile application development program. Students...

UC San Diego Research Team Explores Genetic Frontiers Utilizing SDSC’s Expanse

Novel statistical models help researchers decipher genetic and genomic data in order to better understand the implications for proper disease...

Highlights from the Second Annual Single Board Cluster Competition at SDSC

The challenge? To create a cluster out of single-socket computers that can execute a variety of benchmarks and scientific applications while...

International Collaboration Aims to Advance Groundwater Resilience in Transboundary Regions

Groundwater is a critical source of drinking water for nearly half of the world’s population. An SDSC-led research team is using data science...

Unlocking Sustainable Battery Solutions Using San Diego Supercomputer Center Resources

As an alternative to lithium, scientists have turned their attention to earth-abundant and cost-effective multivalent metals, but a major challenge...

HubICL Launches Professional Development Zone for Intercultural Learning Resources

The Intercultural Learning Hub has recently showcased a series of self-learning modules related to intercultural and global learning, diversity,...

Using Software to Share Accurate Models of Galactic, Extra-Galactic Emissions with the Scientific Community

SDSC's Andrea Zonca leads the development of Python Sky Model for the Advanced Simons Observatory, which investigates the origins of the...

San Diego Supercomputer Center Names Ashley Atkins as New Chief of Staff

As a member of the Director’s Office at SDSC, Atkins provides support for and offers guidance on developing the strategic direction of the...

National AI Researchers Have the Chance to Access San Diego Supercomputer Center Resources through NSF NAIRR Pilot

The first projects that will be supported through the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot have been announced, marking a...

Expanse Supercomputer Enables Discovery of Biomarkers that Can Indicate Preeclampsia Complications

Preeclampsia is a leading cause of maternal mortality world-wide. Researchers use Expanse to explore the heightened prevalence of this condition in...

Cutting-Edge Platform Enables Complex Simulations, Data Analysis with a Few Clicks

Powered by new FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable)-minded simulation tools, nanoHUB eases science workflows and results...

Using Supercomputers to Help Design Quality Recyclables from Plastic

Plastic products are challenging to dispose of responsibly creating serious threats to ecosystems and human health. Supercomputer models offer...

Catch a Glimpse of the April 8 Solar Eclipse a Little Early via Supercomputer Sims

These continuously updated computer models predict the conditions of the solar corona, and can help scientists better understand the interconnected...

San Diego Supercomputer Center and San Diego State Receive CENIC Award for Supporting Equitable CI

The TIDE Project, which is interconnected and accessed via the CENIC network, provides greater access to high-performance computing resources for...

Expanse Simulations Illustrate Combo-Antibiotic Plans for TB Treatments

Researchers configure appropriate treatments using computational modeling for tuberculosis patients, which is a cheaper and faster alternative to...

Using AI and Data Science to ReNOURISH Food Deserts

Millions of Americans live in food deserts where ultraprocessed foods are abundant and fresh food is scarce, giving rise to large health...

San Diego Supercomputer Center Hosts New SDSU Portal for Minority Healthcare

The Health Science Research Portal provides users with an array of population-based minority research data that can be utilized for biomedical,...

San Diego Supercomputer Center Interns Create App for UC San Diego’s Stuart Collection

High school students interning at the San Diego Supercomputer Center recently developed an app for the Stuart Collection at UC San Diego.

SDSC’s Ilkay Altıntaş Receives CENIC’s Christine Haska Distinguished Service Award

Altıntaş’s role at SDSC and UC San Diego has paved the way for numerous groundbreaking achievements. Her instrumental work has not...

High School Students Showcase Data Science Project at 2024 San Diego Bird Festival

SDSC interns presented their research poster as part of a data science challenge called DataJam West, which is aimed at engaging high school...

San Diego Supercomputer Center Launches Women in High Performance Computing Group

SDSC announced a new initiative as an official affiliate with the Women in High Performance Computing, a national organization aimed at supporting...

Broadening Access to Bridge the Gap between Data Innovation and Computing Infrastructure

SDSC and the University of Utah have announced a national-scale pilot project aimed at a service ecosystem to make access to and use of scientific...

Supercomputing Simulations in Multiyear Study of Corn to Address Food Insecurity Reveal Surprising Molecular Results

The study of genomic features in maize resulted in the unexpected discovery of tiny ribonucleic acid from unknown origins.

Using PlantingScience Gateway to Empower Next-Gen Researchers

SDSC's Hubzero partnered with the innovative PlantingScience program to help facilitate mentoring relationships with real plant scientists and...

San Diego Supercomputer Center Among Group Awarded $25 Million NSF Grant for High Energy Physics Research

The highly demanding computing and data requirements expected by the next phase of the Large Hadron Collider include storing, transferring and...

Registration Now Open for 5NRP and FABRIC KNIT 8 Workshops

Registration Now Open for 5NRP and FABRIC KNIT 8 Workshops

UC San Diego Students Win MLPerf Contest at 2023 Supercomputing Conference

The competition provides undergraduates with the opportunity to learn about, and work with, advanced HPC hardware and software.

NAIRR Pilot Takes Flight with First Call for AI-Related Research Proposals

Members of the U.S. research community have the opportunity to request access to advanced computing resources for projects focused on forwarding...

Researchers Use Expanse for Project Supportive of Efforts toward Clean Energy

Calculations show how carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion can be converted to higher-carbon chain fuels – supporting the nation's...

UC San Diego’s Bioengineering Team Uses TSCC at SDSC for Bioinformatics Tool

Researchers have developed a novel bioinformatics tool that can classify and visualize large-scale mutational events to decipher genomic anomalies...

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