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Scientists from SDSC and UC San Diego were awarded supercomputing processor time by DOE as part of its 2011 INCITE program.
Published December 2, 2010
The OpenTopography Facility will participate in a five-year, $4.4 million award from NSF to form a collaborative software framework for analysis of geographic data that will benefit many fields of research, from archaeology to urban planning.
Published November 10, 2010
SDSC will provide expertise to a multi-year technology investment program to develop the next generation of extreme scale supercomputers.
Published November 4, 2010
SDSC marked its 25th year, highlighting several scientific and technological accomplishments that include assisting researchers in developing new drugs for AIDS and cancer, predicting the impact of earthquakes, and determining the structures of key enzymes to increase the world's food supply.
Published October 15, 2010
Philip E. Bourne, a computational biologist and professor with the University of California, San Diego, is this year's recipient of Microsoft's Jim Gray eScience Award, for his contributions to data-intensive computing.
Published October 15, 2010
After a decade of joint work involving 2,700 researchers from 80 countries, the world's scientists--as well as the general public--can now access the Census of Marine Life, which provides the first in-depth look at the more than 120,000 diverse species which inhabit our oceans.
Published October 4, 2010
Deployed in October 2009 by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) as an integrated, data-intensive computing system primarily to support UC San Diego and UC researchers, the <em>Triton Resource</em> is marking its one-year anniversary of service with a roster of more than 500 users across campus.
Published September 30, 2010
SDSC and CAIDA, in a collaboration with researchers from Universitat de Barcelona in Spain and the University of Cyprus, have created the first geometric "atlas" of the Internet as part of a project to prevent our most ubiquitous form of communication from collapsing within the next decade or so.
Published September 9, 2010
A research project involving the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis has been selected by the National Science Foundation as part of a series of awards aimed at pursuing new and innovative ways to create a more trustworthy and robust Internet.
Published September 2, 2010
Michael L. Norman has been named to the position of director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego. Norman's appointment is effective September 1, 2010.
Published August 20, 2010
Researchers at SDSC and San Diego State University have created a magnitude 8.0 earthquake simulation along the southern section of the San Andreas Fault. About 25 million people reside in that area, which extends as far south as Yuma, Arizona, and Ensenada, Mexico, and runs up through southern California to as far north as Fresno.
Published August 19, 2010
The National Science Foundation has awarded SDSC $2.8 million to build and deploy a new high-performance computer system called <em>Trestles</em>.
Published August 19, 2010
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, will host a special conference in late October as it prepares to deploy a unique data-intensive, high- performance computing (HPC) system called <em>Gordon</em> in mid-2011.
Published August 2, 2010
SDSC is launching a new volunteer internship program for high school students this summer to assist them in gaining experience in a particular area of computational research.
Published June 28, 2010
SDSC and a Canadian High Performance Computing consortium have been awarded grants to design an ultra-efficient data center as part of a program to promote green IT initiatives.
Published June 9, 2010
Shankar Subramaniam has been named a Distinguished Scientist at SDSC to assist in identifying new opportunities and solutions in the area of bioinformatics.
Published June 7, 2010
In the weeks following the magnitude 7.2 Easter Sunday earthquake, many residents became acutely aware of every aftershock. For seismologists and geophysicists, it meant a wealth of new data - and new clues about whether this temblor could trigger a larger, more deadly earthquake along the densely populated San Andreas Fault.
Published April 26, 2010
As researchers in all major science domains struggle to keep up with the exponentially growing amount of digitally based data, the HPC (high-performance computing) community will evolve to include HPD, or high-performance data, to benefit researchers who need to access, analyze, and store extremely large data sets in significantly shorter amounts of time.
Published February 24, 2010
The vision transformed into a concept from atop a hill. More precisely a mountain, as Hans-Werner Braun looked off into the distance from Mount Woodson 10 years ago this month and imagined a network of wireless Internet connections crisscrossing this boulder-strewn landscape.
Published February 22, 2010
Beginning March 1, selected workshops from SDSC's widely acclaimed TeacherTECH Science Series will begin airing locally on UCSD-TV, and nationally on UCTV, the satellite channel for the University of California.
Published February 22, 2010
A novel - and rapid - anti-cancer drug development strategy has resulted in a new drug that stops kidney and pancreatic tumors from growing in mice.
Published February 12, 2010
SDSC has announced the first round of computer allocations under the Triton Research Opportunities program associated with the center's new Triton Resource, a data-intensive computing system primarily designed to support UC San Diego and UC researchers.
Published February 10, 2010
Scientists from SDSC and other parts of the University of California, San Diego - conducting research in computer science, climate, biology, physics, engineering, and earthquake sciences - were awarded supercomputing processor time by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of its 2010 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.
Published February 2, 2010
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access will hold a one-day symposium convening a diverse group of speakers from the academic, private, and public sectors to discuss one of the most pressing issues of the Information Age: identifying practical solutions to the economic challenges of preserving today's deluge of digital data.
Published February 1, 2010
SDSC researchers have joined forces in a three-year, $1.5 million project to pursue novel applications of high-performance computing in radiotherapy.
Published January 26, 2010
Participants can now submit papers and abstracts for the Science, Technology, Gateways, and Education tracks, and abstracts only for all other parts of the TeraGrid'10 conference, to be held August 2-5, 2010 in Pittsburgh.
Published January 22, 2010