SDSC News Releases: 2002

• Energized "Heartbeats" May Explain Why Galaxies are Continually Stirred Up, UCSD Researchers Say

  Published October 28, 2002

• NSF's $35 Million Extensible Terascale Facility Award Expands TeraGrid Project

  Published October 10, 2002

• San Diego Supercomputer Center to Play Major Role in Six NSF Information Technology Research Awards

  Published September 25, 2002

• Library of Congress and San Diego Supercomputer Center to Evaluate SDSC SRB Data Grid for Preservation of Digital Holdings

  Published September 19, 2002

• UCSD Homeland Security Media Briefing

  Published August 29, 2002

• San Diego Supercomputer Center and Entropia Report Early Success in their Partnership to Harness Desktop PC Grids

  Published August 20, 2002

• Net Optics Contributes 10 Gigabit Technology to CalNGI Network Performance Reference Lab Passive Taps and Analyzer Switches Create Access Ports for 10 Gigabit Monitoring at the San Diego Supercomputer Center

  Published August 7, 2002

• NSF Signs Three-Year Agreement with NLANR Measurement and Network Analysis Group $3.28 Million to Team Based at San Diego Supercomputer Center

  Published August 6, 2002

• SDSC'S Steckler Receivers "Spirit of Preuss" Award

  Published July 23, 2002

• NPACI ROCKS Simplifies Deployment of INTEL Itanium-Based Linux Clusters

  Published June 11, 2002

• UCSD Scientists Create new Computational Method that Could Shorten Time to Develop New Drugs

  A new computational technique developed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and reported in the May 22 Journal of the American Chemical Society provides a more realistic picture of how potential drugs and their molecular targets behave under normal conditions.

  Published May 22, 2002

• San Diego Supercomputer Center, Timelogic and Sun Validate Ultra-Fast Hidden markov Model Analysis

  Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW), TimeLogic Corporation, manufacturer of the DeCypher(r) line of biocomputing accelerators, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) recently completed benchmark testing and scientific validation of large-scale Hidden Markov Model bioinformatics analyses comparing speed and results to those obtained on SDSC's Linux PC cluster.

  Published May 8, 2002

• Bart McDermott Joins SDSC as Director for External Relations and Partnership Collaborations

  Published April 29, 2002

• Shrinking BioDiversity? Kansas, Mexican, and SDSC Researchers Project Future Impacts of Global Climate Change on 1,870 Mexican Species

  In a paper in this week's journal Nature, a team of researchers from the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center (UKNHM), the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, report on the first analysis of the potential impacts of climate change for an entire country, Mexico, including all species of mammals and birds as well as many species of butterflies -- some 1,870 species.

  Published April 11, 2002

• NIH Funds "One-Stop Shop" for Protein Information

  Published April 4, 2002

• SDSC Announces New High-Level Program for Computer Networking and National Search for Program Director

  The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) announced today that it is developing a major new program in computer networking. In conjunction with this, SDSC is actively seeking a program director to lead the new program area, which will include both networking research and operations.

  Published April 4, 2002

• SDSC Announces Formation and Inaugural Workshop or Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly for International Collaboration

  Published March 11, 2002

• San Diego Supercomputer Center Creates Spectacular Animation for Hayden Planetarium's American Museum of Natural History's New Space Show

  Published March 7, 2002

• Carl Kesselman Takes on Expanded Leadership Role in NPACI as Chief Software Architect

  Published March 6, 2002

• Richard L. Moore Appointed Executive Director, National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure

  Published January 22, 2002

• Intel Provides Donation to Enhance Research and Teaching at NPACI Partner TACC

  Published January 21, 2002