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Researchers and students from various institutions around the world are invited to participate in a “hackathon” focusing on tools to model, measure, and monitor the routing infrastructure of the global Internet
Published December 16, 2015
Five years ago, there were no computer science classes offered by schools within San Diego’s Sweetwater Union High School District, and Arthur Lopez decided to do something about it
Published December 10, 2015
SDSC is a recipient of this year’s HPCwire and Editors’ Choice Awards for its new Comet supercomputer that entered production earlier this year as a result of an NSF grant worth nearly $24M.
Published November 17, 2015
Comet is already blazing new paths of discovery, thanks in part to its role as a primary resource for providing scientists across many research domains with easy access to its computing power
Published November 13, 2015
The Open Science Grid has added high-performance virtualized clusters to its global infrastructure by taking advantage of a new and unique capability of SDSC's Comet supercomputer
Published November 12, 2015
The addition of the SSDs will significantly boost Comet’s data analytics capability by expanding its node-local storage capacity for data-intensive workloads.
Published November 10, 2015
The ‘Big Data’ Innovation Hub will facilitate collaboration among the region’s technology sector and other organizations to address research challenges.
Published November 2, 2015
Computer modeling identifies the first-ever molecule to inhibit a transient cellular event that drives glioblastoma
Published October 30, 2015
SDSC has appointed Karen R. Flammer as Director of Education for the Center. Flammer succeeds Diane Baxter, who officially retires on November 30. Flammer officially began her new role on October 1.
Published October 26, 2015
SDSC has formally taken the wraps off Comet, a new petascale supercomputer that is over 2 million times more powerful than SDSC's first Cray XMP-48 system.
Published October 23, 2015
Cisplatin, part of the chemotherapy treatment programs for cancer, has now been shown to play an unexpected role in blocking one of the pathways most commonly involved in driving cancer growth.
Published October 20, 2015
The Neuroscience Gateways project will contribute to the national BRAIN initiative announced by the Obama administration in 2013 to advance researchers’ understanding of the human brain.
Published October 19, 2015
SDSC has made significant upgrades to its cloud-based storage system to include a new range of computing services designed to support science-based researchers.
Published September 30, 2015
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a graph can be worth a lot more than that in the burgeoning field of big data, even though translating terabytes of information into meaningful insights is no easy feat.
Published September 28, 2015
SDSC is participating in a new program to add technology-oriented courses to the online learning network Coursera to better prepare job seekers in the highly specialized tech sector
Published September 10, 2015
NSF has awarded SDSC a one-year extension to continue operating its Gordon supercomputer, providing continued access for a wide range of researchers with data-intensive projects.
Published August 24, 2015
Ilkay Altintas has been appointed Chief Data Science Officer of SDSC, effective immediately. Altintas, who joined SDSC in 2001, will lead the strategic coordination of all computational data science activities at SDSC while overseeing application-based solutions and their related technologies.
Published August 13, 2015
An SDSC bioinformatics researcher has been awarded a grant worth almost $1.4 million to make biological structures more widely available to scientists, educators, and students.
Published August 11, 2015
NSF has awarded UC San Diego and UC Berkeley $5M to establish a high-capacity, data-centric “freeway system” that will move data about 1,000x faster than speeds on today’s inter-campus shared Internet.
Published August 4, 2015
SDSC has appointed Shawn Strande as deputy director for the Center. Strande succeeds Richard Moore, who retired in June after 13 years with SDSC.
Published August 3, 2015
There may be far fewer galaxies further out in the Universe than might be expected, suggests a new study based on simulations conducted at NCSA and with resulting data transferred to SDSC Cloud for future analysis.
Published July 1, 2015
SDSC, in collaboration with the UC San Diego School of Medicine, has launched a new mentoring program designed to provide a pathway for high school student researchers to gain access to experts in their field of interest.
Published May 28, 2015
SDSC has been awarded a grant to help three of the region’s school districts develop model “villages” for introducing and sustaining up-to-date computer science courses in their curriculum.
Published May 27, 2015
Once installed, the supercomputer will more than double the Arkansas High Performance Computing Center’s computational capacity and allow it to run three times the amount of jobs for campus researchers
Published May 5, 2015
Comet is a new petascale supercomputer designed to transform advanced scientific computing by expanding access and capacity among traditional as well as non-traditional research domains.
Published April 30, 2015
A widely reported study, which shows a significant decline in the thickness of Antarctica’s floating ice shelves, used SDSC’s TCC and TSCC supercomputers to analyze 18 years of satellite data.
Published April 20, 2015
SDSC will begin addressing a rapidly emerging area of interest in data science by holding its first Graph Analytics “boot camp”.
Published April 2, 2015
Researchers have described for the first time the molecular mechanism of cancer development caused by well-known “resistance” mutations in the gene called epidermal growth factor receptor.
Published March 18, 2015
Researchers at SDSC are the recipient of NVIDIA’s 2015 Global Impact Award for their collaborative work in developing an accelerated GPU code to simulate earthquake physics necessary for safer building design.
Published March 17, 2015
A recently published global genome study that used SDSC's data-intensive Gordon supercomputer has researchers rethinking how avian lineages diverged after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Published March 16, 2015
The Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis at SDSC has been awarded a $1.2 million NSF grant to measure and quantify the changing nature of the Internet’s topology and what it means for the Internet’s future in terms of design, operations, scientific study, and public policy.
Published March 9, 2015
SDSC has announced internship opportunities for its 2015 Research Experience for High School Students summer program, which places students into multidisciplinary research teams to help them gain experience in selected areas of computational research
Published March 9, 2015
Researchers at SDSC, Moores Cancer Center, and Department of Neurosciences at UC San Diego, have shown for the first time a pyramid hierarchical network of “coherent gene modules” that regulate glioblastoma genes, involved in a highly aggressive form of brain cancer.
Published February 11, 2015
SDSC is providing data management, visualization and modeling resources, and expertise to a two-month wintertime field campaign to study “atmospheric rivers” and particles of dust, smoke, sea spray, and organic materials called aerosols along the western U.S. coast.
Published February 11, 2015
Researchers from the UC San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Francisco–with support from a diverse team of collaborators including SDSC–have launched an ambitious new project to determine how all of the components of a cancer cell interact.
Published January 30, 2015
SDSC is a partner in a new international collaboration to develop computational models and software for simulations of bifunctional catalysis, which is of high relevance for biomass conversion to liquid fuels and raw materials used in the chemical industry.
Published January 26, 2015
UC San Diego Professor Frank Würthwein, an expert in high-energy particle physics and advanced computation, has joined SDSC to help implement a high-capacity data cyberinfrastructure across all UC campuses.
Published January 21, 2015
Researchers at SDSC have shown for the first time why protein mutations lead to the familial form of Parkinson’s disease.
Published January 21, 2015
A new center at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, focused on developing new ways to protect infrastructures as well as the human body from extreme events such as blasts from terrorist attacks or high-impact collisions, is joining forces with SDSC to provide data-intensive supercomputer simulations.
Published January 16, 2015
SDSC has announced its inaugural UC Graduate Student Summer Fellowship program, providing opportunities for graduate students throughout the University of California system to learn about SDSC’s expertise and utilize the Center’s wide range of resources to advance their own research.
Published January 14, 2015
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed high-resolution computer simulations, done on SDSC's Trestles supercomputer that take into account how the air flows within and around a wind-farm in unprecedented detail.
Published January 5, 2015