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The newly launched CORE Institute is designed to catalyze a network of researchers and practitioners committed to creating impact through convergence research, which focuses on solving complex problems in engineering, science and society.
Published December 14, 2022
CICORE combines broad expertise in cyberinfrastructure with deep, domain-specific expertise in AI-enabled science to build use-inspired solutions to grand societal challenges at scale with partners in research communities, practical communities, and industry.
Published December 9, 2022
Neuroscientists worked with cyberinfrastructure developers to create a forum for sharing, mining, analyzing, visualizing and archiving NeuroElectroMagnetic imaging data from several sources.
Published December 8, 2022
A team of students from SDSC and the Computer Science & Engineering Department at UC San Diego won the 2022 Student Cluster Competition HPL Benchmark Contest, placing third overall in the competition at the Supercomputing Conference.
Published November 30, 2022
The expo showcased the work of seven student teams who created concept designs to increase public understanding and acceptance of prescribed burns.
Published November 22, 2022
Expanse one of three powerful high-performance computers used by a research team led by David Radice at Pennsylvania State University to create novel neutron star merger simulations.
Published November 18, 2022
Researchers with active awards funded by the NSF’s Computer Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate can request quantum resources as active CISE awardees. This opportunity through CloudBank is designed to expand and simplify access to emerging computational resources.
Published November 17, 2022
SDSC wins five HPCwire Awards at the 2022 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC22), in Dallas, Texas. The highly coveted HPC community recognition includes two Readers' Choice and three Editors' Choice selections.
Published November 15, 2022
SDSC in collaboration with the Southern California Earthquake Center is hosting a new oneAPI Center of Excellence. The center’s focus is to address the challenges of numerically simulating the dynamics of fault rupture and seismic ground motion in realistic 3D models.
Published November 8, 2022
UC San Diego student Jenny Nguyen shares insights about learning about leading through a program management internship
Published November 8, 2022
Using SDSC's Expanse supercomputer, a team of local researchers predicts mild solar activity over the next decade.
Published November 7, 2022
The Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing has cleared the way for science and engineering researchers for years with its commitment to advancing distributed high throughput computing technologies and methods.
Published November 3, 2022
Funding supports the first ever Native-controlled and housed biorepository within a Native nation, to build a proof-of-concept Indigenous Data Service genomic blockchain platform that will integrate key features for their consortium’s infrastructure.
Published October 31, 2022
UC San Diego collaborates to modernize computational tools, methods for next-gen hardware to accelerate drug discovery, materials development and more.
Published October 28, 2022
The DeCODER project will standardize how scientific data is described – allowing for search engines for scientific data that not only support discoverability but also facilitate the usage of the data.
Published October 26, 2022
The West Big Data Innovation Hub hosted four interns through the NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates program at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego.
Published October 25, 2022
Recognizing economic competitiveness and security depends on advanced cyberinfrastructure, NSF initiated a CyberTraining funding challenge to prepare and develop a workforce that can help scientists meet their computational needs.
Published October 20, 2022
Similar to a famous fictional “Holmes” who doggedly worked to crack a case, SDSC's Sherlock Cloud Solutions and Services Division works unwaveringly to solve the mysteries that cyberinfrastructure and cloud computing can present to the people and places the division serves.
Published October 19, 2022
Atmospheric rivers are narrow bands of moisture-laden air, often more than a thousand miles long and a few hundred miles wide, that affect precipitation around the world.
Published October 13, 2022
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has announced that SDSC's Christine Kirkpatrick will be joining their Board on Research Data and Information.
Published October 12, 2022
The Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers Computer Society recently announced that Ilkay Altıntaş, SDSC's chief data science officer, has been elected as an IEEE CS 2023 Board of Governors member for a three-year term.
Published October 11, 2022
Supercomputers were used to test the resilience of nanoscale, metallic, multilayered materials, which could be used in a variety of structural applications.
Published October 10, 2022
UC San Diego researchers will lead efforts to create network focused on FAIR data principles for machine learning, artificial intelligence readiness and reproducibility.
Published October 5, 2022
The National Science Foundation is accelerating 5G solutions to assist the U.S. government and critical infrastructure operators with secure, anywhere-anytime communications.
Published September 27, 2022
Molecular dynamics simulations to be enabled via oneAPI in software package used by thousands of scientists for computational drug discovery and related research.
Published September 23, 2022
This distinction is awarded each year to an individual at SDSC who consistently demonstrates exemplary research in both science and cyberinfrastructure.
Published September 9, 2022
Strontium ruthenate’s one-direction electron spin could provide the “juice” for low-power electronic devices.
Published September 7, 2022
With a goal of broadening impact through science gateways, SGX3, a new NSF Center of Excellence in cyberinfrastructure, aims to help the community of users address challenges around spanning architecture, workforce skills and stability, sustainability and planning for the future.
Published September 6, 2022
San Diego Supercomputer Center education and training leaders will mentor undergrads in the 48-hour Student Cluster Competition at the Supercomputing Conference this fall in Dallas.
Published August 29, 2022
TSCC is a community-owned, shared system that has been a critical resource for UC San Diego researchers—as well as UC Riverside and UC Merced teams—providing high-performance computing services to support modeling, simulation and data analytics.
Published August 18, 2022
Today, Hubzero® has been used to construct more than 70 science gateways serving a wide variety of scientific domains with a combined millions of unique users.
Published August 17, 2022
If SDSC has a superhero it just might be the Business Services Division. As the center’s business office, the division provides the administrative support for the entire center through four main areas: finance, human resources, facilities and data systems.
Published August 17, 2022
SDSC's Igor Sfiligoi presented several papers on GPU Accounting, GPUs and Kubernetes, fusion computing and GPU benchmarking at PEARC22.
Published August 11, 2022
SDSC's Peter Rose was presented with a team award from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development for his work in the COVID-19 Common Data Elements Working Groups.
Published August 9, 2022
Robert Sinkovits, who serves as SDSC's director of Education and Training, has been selected as the Chairperson for the 2023 Association for Computing Machinery Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing.
Published August 4, 2022
Tissue remodeling research can provide insight on better design strategies for wound healing, as well as improved designs for organ-on-a-chip tools that are used for drug discovery.
Published August 3, 2022
Odor-producing industries such as agriculture, composting, sewage management, food processing and landfills present a nuisance and potential health concerns to nearby communities. Researchers used a supercomputer to examine how odor neutralizers work to counteract odors.
Published August 1, 2022
Genomic data from Indigenous communities plays an important role in understanding an array of diseases; however, this data has often been used without informed consent. A team of researchers proposed a framework to ensure that Indigenous Data Sovereignty is maintained during health data collection, storage and sharing.
Published July 27, 2022
Currents can carry coastal fish populations miles away from their “home base” as a result of powerful eddies and filaments that transport water from near shore into the open ocean.
Published July 22, 2022
Around the world there are robust responses to the need for unified open research commons that is user-friendly and broadly accessible. While other nations are gearing up for future competitiveness in this way, the U.S. is lagging behind.
Published July 15, 2022
James Short, lead scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, was recently listed as one of the international academic data leaders in 2022 by Chief Data Officer Magazine.
Published July 8, 2022
The Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal provides streamlined access to high-quality reliable data and information that can be utilized by a range of stakeholders and be incorporated into near-real-time planning activities and management decisions.
Published July 5, 2022
If high-performance and data-intensive computing and cyberinfrastructure make up the soul of SDSC, then at its heart is the Research and Data Services Division. The RDS division provides services that enable researchers to attain their research and computing goals.
Published June 15, 2022
SDSC recently announced the creation of HPC@MSI, a program aimed at facilitating the use of high-performance computing (HPC) by Minority Serving Institutions (MSI).
Published June 13, 2022
Study shows how to use perimeter and surface area to estimate wind speed and direction.
Published June 7, 2022
SDSC staff worked with middle and high school students from the Pala Native American Youth Council to conduct an informal data science study on the pH levels of the San Luis Rey River that flows through Pala tribal land.
Published May 26, 2022
Voyager, SDSC's newly installed experimental artificial intelligence compute resource, is ready for use. Sanctioned for production by the NSF, the high-performance/high-efficiency supercomputer located at UC San Diego is moving into its operational testbed phase.
Published May 18, 2022
Eligibility to CloudBank, the NSF-funded program that provides access to and managed services for public cloud resources for research and education, has dramatically expanded—making it easier for users to gain access to its resources.
Published May 17, 2022
For nearly a decade, EarthCube has been transforming geosciences research by developing and maintaining a well-connected and facile environment that improves access, sharing, visualization and analysis of data and related resources.
Published May 5, 2022
Using SDSC supercomputers, researchers looked at how house mice colonize and adapt to high elevations in Ecuador and Bolivia.
Published April 26, 2022
SDSC, a national leader in high-performance supercomputing and data science, will apply its resources and expertise to the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program.
Published April 25, 2022
Urban Electric Power installed the first enterprise-scale, rechargeable alkaline batteries to enhance resiliency of advanced computing at UC San Diego.
Published April 20, 2022
SDSC architects, designs, builds and operates innovative supercomputers, and the Data-Enabled Scientific Computing Division at SDSC has played an important role in acquiring the grants to do so.
Published April 19, 2022
UC San Diego is launching its first online graduate degree program to help meet the demand for data scientists, with SDSC's Ilkay Altintas teaching two of the courses.
Published April 13, 2022
SDSC’s Chaitan Baru also co-authored three articles that highlight convergence, knowledge graphs and model sharing for AI.
Published April 12, 2022
SDSC's Chief Data Science Officer IIkay Altinatas will discuss Climate Risk Reduction and Technology as a part of UC San Diego’s Design Lab and California 100 speaker series called Designing California’s Future.
Published April 8, 2022
Programs aim to boost researchers’ and students‘ experiences with HPC and cyberinfrastructure resources and services
Published April 7, 2022
SDSC's Research Data Services Director Christine Kirkpatrick and her colleagues analyze ways in which small, agile initiatives can drive large-scale change.
Published March 29, 2022
CARTA recently reached a rare milestone of more than 40 million online views of its recorded sessions. This milestone ranks CARTA as UCTV’s most popular science series and second most popular series overall.
Published March 28, 2022
Trusted CI, the National Science Foundation Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, announced eight Trusted CI Open Science Cybersecurity Fellows – including Melissa Cragin, chief strategist for Data Initiatives in the Research Data Services Division at SDSC.
Published March 21, 2022
Scientists study the topography—the forms and features of the landscape—to measure and observe changes at the Earth’s surface over time. While some changes are the result of natural processes like fluvial erosion and coastal erosion, the topography can also change due to anthropogenic forces.
Published March 16, 2022
A new study with implications for atmospheric chemistry has answered some long-enduring questions about the chemical reactivity of an air pollutant molecule with aerosol, revealing the vital role played by the interface between water and gas.
Published March 15, 2022
Melax Tech and SDSC secured a contract focused on the development and enhancement of innovative user-focused informatic tools for use in basic and clinical research on infectious, immune and allergic diseases.
Published March 15, 2022
While SDSC has been a close collaborator of the SCEC community, in particular in areas of large-scale earthquake simulation and application development for 20 years, the SCEC Board of Directors recently designated SDSC as a core institution.
Published March 3, 2022
In order to promote and guide the cultivation and exchange of data, researchers have developed a set of principles that could make the data more findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) for both people and machines.
Published February 14, 2022
In classic UC San Diego fashion, an overheard conversation at a campus coffee cart has turned into an interdisciplinary project that’s making computing-intensive coursework more exciting while saving well over one million dollars so far.
Published February 2, 2022
Researchers use SDSC's Comet supercomputer to put renowned mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani's theorem to the test.
Published January 31, 2022
Serverless data management system eliminates costs, strengthens security and improves modernization, scalability, reliability and performance.
Published January 25, 2022
While humans can't directly access the earth's core, researchers use supercomputer simulations to illustrate how the Earth’s outer core consists of a dance party among iron and carbon atoms.
Published January 18, 2022
The global COVID-19 pandemic caused an increase in tuberculosis deaths due to a lack of efficient diagnosis and treatment. Researchers are using supercomputers like SDSC's Expanse to change that.
Published January 12, 2022
While water supply and use vary with precipitation, California's agricultural areas use much more water than urban areas and show no evidence of conservation—even during periods of severe drought.
Published January 6, 2022