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Internet Hall of Fame Inductee Hans-Werner Braun was a key player in the development of the National Science Foundation Network, NSFNET, and the Internet's resulting growth in speed, coverage and reliability. The SDSC research scientist's work helped pave the way for large-scale routing and created a model for Internet networks around the world.
Published December 22, 2021
SDSC and OSG used Microsoft Azure Cloud Services to enable scientists to accomplish in a few days what would normally take them weeks, thus accelerating science and opening up new scientific pursuits.
Published December 16, 2021
Melissa Floca was hired by the Cyberinfrastructure and Convergence Research and Education Division at SDSC to build cross-institutional and cross-sectoral alliances in support of societal-scale technological innovation.
Published December 14, 2021
Christine Kirkpatrick, division director of Research Data Services at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, was nominated by the U.S. National Academies Committee on Data to serve as Secretary General for the International Science Council's Committee on Data.
Published December 10, 2021
An SDSC researcher teamed up with UC San Diego undergraduate data science students to develop the e-Decision Tree being used for classrooms and school buses.
Published December 9, 2021
While attempting to better understand the relationship between Earth and Mars using supercomputer-enabled models, researchers revealed new insights into the solar system’s formation.
Published December 9, 2021
On Dec. 4, a total eclipse of the sun will occur. The solar corona – visible to the naked eye only during a total eclipse – will be viewable for just over one minute. Thanks to simulations run on the Expanse supercomputer, we have an idea of what that might look like.
Published December 3, 2021
Frank Würthwein, lead of SDSC’s Distributed High-Throughput Computing Group, executive director of the Open Science Grid, a physics professor and a founding faculty member of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego assumes the role Dec. 1.
Published November 30, 2021
At 10 million input/output operations per second from a single server to a single storage system, the results of this testing are more about expanding the scope of what AI, machine learning, data analytics, and other data-centric environments can deliver.
Published November 17, 2021
Scientists recently used Comet to understand new approaches to removing PFAS in drinking water. Computational power provided by SDSC helped researchers determine how to decompose contaminants by fine-tuning radiation to break the strong bonds of the contaminant.
Published November 5, 2021
With more than 180,000 structures used worldwide by researchers to unlock the mysteries of human disease, the Protein Data Bank is a leading global resource for experimental data integral to scientific discovery.
Published November 1, 2021
Scientists used SDSC's Expanse supercomputer to simulate a way that FDA-approved drugs can target one of the 29 proteins within COVID-19 that wreaks havoc among those infected with the condition.
Published October 28, 2021
Using supercomputers to simulate reactions at an atomic scale, scientists shed light on the puzzling formation of a common disinfectant when oxygen molecules react with water and electrons with the help of a catalyst.
Published October 25, 2021
The Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis, the University of Oregon’s Network Startup Resource Center and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have been awarded more than $11M for projects aimed at improving internet infrastructure security.
Published October 13, 2021
SDSC is helping build the critical technology needed to sew-up the national computational infrastructure and to draw talent from a diversity of Americans to the data-driven sciences.
Published October 5, 2021
Researchers use satellite data and supercomputer simulations to better understand and forecast geomagnetic storms that can impact satellite and ground-based telecommunications systems.
Published September 29, 2021
The combination of artificial intelligence and new processor types is leading to a revolution in the analysis of massive data sets for scientific research
Published September 28, 2021
A century of suppressing wildfires has created a dangerous stockpile of flammable vegetation which feeds megafires that put human life and property at risk and that permanently destroy ecosystems.
Published September 24, 2021
Scientists recently made a significant leap in ensuring that the “normal” ranges for metabolic rates are better understood for individuals, rather than the human population as a whole.
Published September 14, 2021
The Research Running on Cloud Compute and Emerging Technologies workshop took place with university participants, commercial cloud providers, federal agencies and the private sector.
Published September 7, 2021
An international team of researchers used Comet at SDSC to complete a detailed study of a particular sub-group of porous carbon called zeolite-templated carbon as a gas storage material.
Published August 25, 2021
The NSF has awarded funding which will connect networks of hydrology, social science, data science and systems science to establish a transboundary groundwater resiliency research approach.
Published August 11, 2021
SDSC’s Research Data Services Chief Strategist Melissa Cragin and Division Director Christine Kirkpatrick were awarded a grant by the NSF to fund a GO FAIR symposium.
Published August 10, 2021
Open Science Chain program has been awarded a grant for providing a secure method to efficiently share data while maintaining privacy restrictions.
Published August 3, 2021
The AI Institute for Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure with Computational Learning in the Environment, or ICICLE, will focus on next-generation intelligent cyberinfrastructure that makes using AI as easy as plugging an appliance into an electrical outlet.
Published July 29, 2021
NSF Awarded $5M to SDSC for its Prototype National Research Platform, a first-of-its-kind cyberinfrastructure ecosystem intended to help science drivers expedite science and enable transformative discoveries.
Published July 28, 2021
Researchers and scientists collaborated to build on-demand topographic differencing tools that can reveal surface changes from events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, climate change and urban development.
Published July 27, 2021
SDSC's Expanse supercomputer has added significant capacity and capability in support of SDSC’s base of scientific users, including its industrial partners
Published July 26, 2021
Gastroesophageal reflux disease, more commonly known as GERD, impacts around 20 percent of U.S. citizens, and can lead to serious medical issues If left untreated.
Published July 23, 2021
To better understand preeclampsia, or pregnancy-related hypertension, researchers used SDSC's Comet supercomputer to detail the differences between normal and preeclampsia placental tissue.
Published July 12, 2021
Researchers at SUNY Buffalo recently teamed with colleagues at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Tufts University to publish a special issue paper entitled Building a Glaciology Gateway to Unify a Community.
Published July 6, 2021
Comparative genomics researchers studied molecular mechanisms involved with feline cancers to improve research aimed at treatments for human cancers.
Published July 1, 2021
The Spatial Ecology Gateway will enable researchers to upload biotelemetry data and construct home ranges allowing them to interpret animals’ use of space.
Published June 23, 2021
A demonstration by SDSC's Shava Smallen, co-principal investigator and lead architect for the CloudBank user portal, caught the eye of CERN’s cloud team whose members will work with SDSC to adopt the CloudBank user portal at CERN.
Published June 16, 2021
The Biden administration has launched the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force to help democratize access to resources and tools that fuel AI research and development.
Published June 15, 2021
Developing improved materials for things such as energy storage and drug discovery is of interest to researchers and society alike. Quantum mechanics is the basis for molecular and materials scientists who develop these useful, futuristic products.
Published June 4, 2021
A distributed high-throughput computing leader, a faculty member in the Department of Physics and a founding faculty member of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, Frank Würthwein will serve as SDSC's interim director.
Published May 25, 2021
Novel research not only leads to improvements in genome completeness, but also helps scientists better understand the genetic relationships between individuals, populations and species.
Published May 11, 2021
The San Diego Supercomputer Center and CERN team up and leverage an alliance with Strategic Blue, a UK-based Fintech company that helps organizations optimize procurement of cloud services.
Published May 10, 2021
A team of environmental engineers used high-performance computing to simulate how SARS-CoV-2’s airborne pathogens travel and land in the familiar setting of the supermarket.
Published May 6, 2021
Researchers have recently shown that organic compounds like phenol may not be as harmless as meets the eye, especially when it comes to snowmelt.
Published April 29, 2021
SDSC is growing its industrial engagement through a new partnership with Core Scientific—a leading infrastructure and software solutions provider for artificial intelligence and blockchain.
Published April 29, 2021
With hundreds of active installations and a new award, SeedMeLab is launching its new Software-as-a-Service to benefit researchers.
Published April 22, 2021
SDSC’s petascale Comet supercomputer will end formal service as an NSF resource and transition to exclusive use by the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes.
Published April 19, 2021
In a boost to multimessenger astrophysics, the observatory opened a new window to the universe by detecting a high-energy particle called an antineutrino. SDSC's Comet supercomputer was among the resources used to prove a 60-year-old theory.
Published April 15, 2021
The solar system’s two largest planets, Jupiter and Saturn, received worldwide publicity on December 21, 2020, as they glided closer than they’ve been since 1623. Visible around the globe, “The Great Conjunction” placed the two planets only 0.1 degree apart.
Published April 13, 2021
SDSC has selected the Intel company’s Habana Labs artificial intelligence training and inference accelerators to provide high-performance, high-efficiency AI compute for its experimental Voyager supercomputer.
Published April 9, 2021
Researchers used supercomputers to observe and quantify thinning in the transentorhinal cortex region of the brain—an observation which could help provide an earlier diagnosis for patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease
Published March 16, 2021
Supercomputer simulations explore the mechanical process of cancer cell division when a mother cell changes shape to segregate its chromosomes and other materials before cleaving itself into two daughter cells
Published March 2, 2021
SDSC science writer Kim Bruch sat down with Joshua Jones, a doctoral student at Virginia Tech, to discuss his contribution not only to TZVOLCANO, but to overall geoscience research that utilizes high performance computing. The interview also provided an opportunity to reflect on Black History Month.
Published February 23, 2021
Computational chemistry represents a challenging arena for machine learning, but researchers may have made it easier by developing an artificial intelligence approach to detect electron correlation – the interaction between a system’s electrons – which is vital but expensive to calculate in quantum chemistry
Published February 8, 2021
Thanks to supercomputers, the research community has been making progress on developing more reliable and efficient electric cars and light trucks as well as other products by focusing on the batteries that power them
Published January 29, 2021
A week before a solar eclipse, viewers got the chance to see what it might look like thanks to simulations generated on SDSC's recently launched Expanse supercomputer
Published January 15, 2021
Understanding the breakdown process in corrosion helps in the design of effective alloys and corrosion inhibitors that can increase the service life of structures exposed to chloride attacks
Published January 5, 2021