Recent News Releases

• San Diego Supercomputer Center Receives Honors in 2024 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

  

  SDSC wins two HPCwire Awards at the 2024 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC24), in Atlanta, Georgia. The highly coveted HPC community recognition includes Readers' Choice and Editors' Choice awards.

  Published November 19, 2024

• Congressional App Challenge Inspires San Diego’s Next Generation of Innovators

  

  The hands-on event served as an opportunity for middle and high school students to not only improve their technical skills but also explore the limitless possibilities of coding, computer design and STEM in general.

  Published November 15, 2024

• UC San Diego’s Data Planet Initiative Marks Next Phase of Growth and Leadership

  

  The Data Planet Initiative provides PhD students with opportunities to work on real-world, data-centric projects. Under Associate Professor Jingbo Shang's leadership, the initiative is expanding in 2025 with more fellows and new research projects.

  Published October 31, 2024

• UC San Diego Mountaintop Cameras Provide Insight to Scarcely Understood Wildfire Phenomenon

  

  HPWREN's sturdy fire-resistant cameras atop Santiago Peak captured images during the Airport Fire that helped researchers identify vorticity-driven lateral spread or VLS where a wildfire can spread in two directions.

  Published October 29, 2024

• Open Storage Network Welcomes New Campus Computing Partners

  

  OSN strives to provide low-cost, quality, sustainable distributed storage cloud for the research community. Over the past few years, the OSN has grown to 17 sites housing more than 35 petabytes of storage and continues to grow.

  Published October 22, 2024

• Students Use Expanse at UC San Diego to Study Bolivian Pink River Dolphins

  

  Undergraduates assembled and annotated the complete mitochondrial genomes of the pink dolphins, which can be used to study phylogenetic relationships as well as genetic variation among larger dolphin populations.

  Published October 18, 2024

• UC San Diego Doctoral Graduate Recognized for Achievement in Astronomy

  

  UC San Diego Alumnus Roman Gerasimov's award winning dissertation focused on the evolution of atmospheres and chemistry of ancient stellar populations.

  Published October 14, 2024

• 2024 CORE Summit Focuses on Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Food Systems

  

  The event brings together cross-sector researchers and practitioners to explore opportunities for innovative solutions that contribute to a more productive, sustainable and equitable food system.

  Published October 2, 2024

• Study Links Blood-clotting Protein to Impacts on Lungs, Brain in Acute and Long COVID Patients

  

  Fibrin-driven inflammation may be the key to understanding the connection between COVID-19 and clotting issues, and to developing a therapy to prevent damaging effects to cardiovascular and nervous systems.

  Published September 26, 2024

• San Diego Supercomputer Center and CENIC Work to Expand AI Education Infrastructure in California

  

  SDSC and CENIC have developed a prescient AI education infrastructure called CENIC AIR for K-12 education, public libraries, community colleges, the California State University and the University of California systems.

  Published September 11, 2024