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Researchers at UCSD and SDSC have developed a novel technique using computational modeling to identify potential side effects of pharmaceuticals, and have used the technique to study a class of drugs that includes Tamoxifen, the most prescribed drug in the treatment of breast cancer.
Published December 19, 2007
With literally every 'bit' of information now being digitally processed and stored, our computer-centric society is faced with one of the greatest challenges of our time: how best to preserve and efficiently access these vast amounts of digital data well into the future - and do so in an economically sustainable manner.
Published December 17, 2007
SDSC hosted a series of live video teleconferences during the weekend, making it possible for several San Diego-area Marine Corps families to speak with - and see - their loved ones stationed in Iraq during the holidays
Published December 17, 2007
Research team sets U.S. records for size, performance, and fidelity of computer weather simulations, modeling the kind of "virtual weather" that society depends on for accurate weather forecasts.
Published December 10, 2007
SDSC along with two other UCSD entities - Calit2 and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography - are combining forces this month at SC07.
Published November 8, 2007
A 3.9 earthquake, whose epicenter was about 5 miles west southwest of Mission Beach in San Diego, hit early this morning and was captured within minutes on video with the help of OnDemand, a new supercomputing resource based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
Published September 4, 2007
Science is coming to the YouTube generation with the advent of "SciVees" -- video and podcasts that supplement traditional peer-reviewed articles.
Published August 29, 2007
A picture is worth a thousand words - or numbers - and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego is helping to provide the answers.
Published July 11, 2007
The SDSC Summer Institute offers training in state-of-the-art high performance computing and data cyberinfrastructure.
Published June 29, 2007
Global climate change is causing Antarctic ice shelves to shrink and split apart, yielding thousands of free-drifting icebergs in the nearby Weddell Sea. According to a new study in this week's journal <em>Science</em> these floating islands of ice are having a major impact on the ecology of the ocean around them.
Published June 21, 2007
A research team led by scientists at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy, and aided by computational modeling at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, has discovered how particular genetic mutations affect and contribute to the developmental abnormalities found in children with autism.
Published June 14, 2007
The TPAP project, whose sites nationwide are linked by data preservation technology developed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, is addressing key challenges in safeguarding, preserving, and providing access to authentic electronic records as the nation's information becomes increasingly digital.
Published May 25, 2007
Op-ed in the <em>Washington Post</em> by Jim Barksdale and Francine Berman
Published May 16, 2007
SDSC TeacherTECH, which helps educators bring new technology tools and technology-enabled science concepts into K-12 curriculum, has been presented with a Partner of the Year Award by the San Diego Science Alliance
Published May 14, 2007
More than 13,300 friends and family of those devastated by giant tornados last Friday evening in southwestern Kansas checked the "Safe and Well" website
Published May 7, 2007
Termites and fungi already know how to digest cellulose, but the human process of producing ethanol from cellulose remains slow and expensive.
Published April 24, 2007
The powerful earthquake struck suddenly, shaking the seven-story building so hard it bent, cracked and swayed in response.
Published April 11, 2007
One of the country's preeminent leaders in information technology, Anita K. Jones, who directed research at the Department of Defense from 1993-97, managing a budget of $11 billion, will deliver the keynote speech at TeraGrid '07.
Published April 9, 2007
The work of researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and UC San Diego is featured on the cover of the current issue of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies Journal.
Published March 22, 2007
More than 120 attendees from five continents of the world came together recently at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego for the Open Science Grid (OSG) Consortium All-Hands Meeting.
Published March 14, 2007
Brian E. C. Schottlaender, University Librarian at UC San Diego and a key partner of the San Diego Supercomputer Center on a variety of projects involving the management, stewardship and preservation of digital data, has been awarded the inaugural 2007 Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award
Published March 8, 2007
The deadly tornados on Friday that cut a 40-mile swath of destruction across four counties in central Florida, destroying homes and killing residents, also left widespread outages in power and phone service.
Published February 6, 2007
Navajos in the American Southwest, many of whom have never had access to a personal telephone, will soon make a significant leap into the Internet Age, thanks in part to resources and expertise provided by the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
Published January 26, 2007
Carl Wunsch, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography at MIT, has received the 2006 William Bowie Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Published January 12, 2007
Long a leader in data technologies, the San Diego Supercomputer Center has released version 0.5 of iRODS, the open-source Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System, which represents a new approach to distributed data management.
Published January 8, 2007
National Science Foundation Director Arden Bement outlines the shape and impacts of the coming "second revolution" in information technology in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Published January 5, 2007