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Projects from two of SDSC's “centers of excellence” were highlighted at a White House Office of Science and Technology Policy meeting focused on accelerating research, development, and collaborations in data-enabled science and engineering.
Published November 14, 2013
SDSC researchers have built a Linux cluster using 16 Raspberry Pi computers as part of a program to teach children and adults the basics of parallel computing.
Published November 12, 2013
A new study by an SDSC researcher says that by 2015, the sum of media asked for and delivered to consumers on mobile devices and to their homes would take more than 15 hours a day to see or hear.
Published November 6, 2013
SDSC has recently stepped up efforts to provide its expertise in high-performance computing and data storage to small-and medium-sized companies, particularly across San Diego’s innovation-driven, high-tech economy.
Published November 6, 2013
SDSC’s StudentTECH computing workshops aim to entice more minority and female students from middle and high schools to enroll in computer science courses in high school and college.
Published November 1, 2013
A newly published paper by three UC San Diego astrophysics researchers for the first time provides an explanation for the origin of three observed correlations between various properties of molecular clouds in the Milky Way galaxy known as Larson’s Laws.
Published October 21, 2013
NSF has awarded a $5 million grant for a collaborative five-year project under which researchers at SDSC will help develop and build a Science Gateway Platform as a service to advance scientific discovery by providing researchers improved access to a variety of hosted or cloud services.
Published October 18, 2013
SDSC and UCSD's Administrative Computing and Telecommunications organization have been awarded an NSF grant to connect the campus to high-bandwidth national research networks to help advance a new range of data-driven research.
Published October 16, 2013
SDSC has been awarded a $12-million NSF grant to deploy Comet, a new petascale supercomputer.
Published October 3, 2013
Three research organizations at UC San Diego have been awarded a grant to build an end-to-end cyberinfrastructure to perform real-time data-driven assessment, simulation, prediction, and visualization of wildfire behavior.
Published September 26, 2013
Researchers using SDSC's computational resources have created a faster and more effective way to assemble genomic information, while increasing performance.
Published September 19, 2013
SDSC, along with small business partners SD Technology and Chickasaw Nation Industries, have brought together their extensive portfolio of information technology services for healthcare and government under the ‘Sherlock’ brand in an effort to serve federal, state, and local governments as well as universities nationwide.
Published August 19, 2013
A team of UC San Diego researchers has designed new compounds that mimic those naturally used by the body to regulate blood pressure. The most promising of them may literally be the key to controlling hypertension.
Published July 22, 2013
Successful scientists typically have not just a college degree, but a PhD and years of research experience. The high school students who have participated in SDSC's student programs and found mentors among the Center’s staff have earned success much earlier than usual, winning titles in local, state, and national science competitions.
Published July 11, 2013
The high-speed data transmission network of the UC San Diego-based High-Performance Wireless and Research Education Network is once again showing its utility as a public safety asset as firefighters battle the 7,000-acre Chariot Fire near Mount Laguna, east of San Diego.
Published July 10, 2013
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has opened registration for its 3rd Cybersecurity Framework Workshop, to be held July 10-12, 2013, in San Diego.
Published June 25, 2013
SDSC's High Performance GeoComputing Laboratory was named a winner of the HPC Innovation Excellence Award for developing a highly-scalable computer code that promises to dramatically cut both research times and energy costs in simulating seismic hazards throughout California and elsewhere
Published June 24, 2013
UC San Diego and the Open Science Grid have announced a partnership under which campus researchers will have access to the OSG’s fabric of Distributed High-Throughput Computing capabilities.
Published June 24, 2013
Gordon has proven to be a boon to biologists interested in rapidly sifting through an ever-expanding amount of data.
Published June 14, 2013
UC San Diego has deployed a new high-performance research computing system called the Triton Shared Computing Cluster, or TSCC, serving researchers at UC San Diego and any of the other UC campuses as well as external academic, non-profit, and corporate users.
Published June 13, 2013
When SDSC debuted Gordon early last year, the system’s architects envisioned that its innovative features would open the door to new areas of research.
Published June 6, 2013
The CIPRES Science Gateway allows researchers to explore evolutionary relationships between species using supercomputers provided by the NSF XSEDE project.
Published May 23, 2013
A panel of distinguished experts will discuss the role of computation and data analytics in supporting discovery throughout the biological sciences when XSEDE13 – the annual conference focusing on computer science, education, outreach, software, and technology – is held July 22-25 in San Diego.
Published May 9, 2013
Using SDSC's Trestles supercomputer, chemists at the University of South Florida and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have discovered a more efficient, less expensive, and reusable material for carbon dioxide capture and separation than is currently used to prevent the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere.
Published May 7, 2013
SDSC will host its first annual research review for current and prospective industrial partners and affiliates as part of a broader strategy to foster increased collaborations that may benefit from the center’s extensive research capabilities.
Published April 17, 2013
Gordon, the unique supercomputer launched last year by SDSC, recently completed its most data-intensive task so far: rapidly processing raw data from almost one billion particle collisions as part of a project to help define the future research agenda for the Large Hadron Collider.
Published April 4, 2013
A team of researchers at SDSC and the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego has developed a highly-scalable computer code that promises to dramatically cut both research times and energy costs in simulating seismic hazards throughout California and elsewhere.
Published April 2, 2013
After developing one of the most advanced research communications infrastructures on any university campus during the past decade, the University of California, San Diego is taking another leap forward in the name of enabling data-intensive science.
Published March 20, 2013
SDSC announced plans for a community-based effort to create the BigData Top100 List, the first global ranking of its kind for systems designed for big data applications.
Published February 28, 2013
REHS, now in its fourth year, is seen as a stepping stone for students who would like to pursue a computational science curriculum as they enter college.
Published February 22, 2013
Researchers at UC San Diego have been awarded a new grant to expand and enhance a cyberinfrastructure designed to provide scientists with easily accessible, Web-based resources to help fight diabetes and metabolic diseases.
Published February 13, 2013
The new position reflects the Center’s focus on addressing both the management and technical aspects of ‘big data’ and other data-enabled applications now becoming pervasive among academia, government, and industry.
Published February 11, 2013
Dr. Robert P. Harkness, a computational astrophysicist with SDSC, died on Sunday, January 27, after a brief bout with cancer.
Published February 1, 2013