Recent News Releases

• 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

• Researchers Apply Biological Factors to System that Mimics Natural Processes for Advanced Computing

  

  Exercise is known to improve brain function and one major reason is due to the skeletal muscle’s capability to secrete specific biologic factors that benefit neuron development during contraction.

  Published September 10, 2024

• WHPC@SDSC Speaker Series Features SDSC Nancy Wilkins-Diehr

  

  As a trailblazer in SDSC's academic and research space, Wilkins-Diehr shared her experiences from a productive career in the HPC community.

  Published September 5, 2024

• OpenTopography Receives $4 Million to Support AI-Ready Access to Topographic Data for Research and Education

  

  The NSF award will support cyberinfrastructure development to help advance understanding of a changing earth.

  Published August 29, 2024

• SDSC Undergraduate Intern Enhances Earthquake Sim Code at Scale

  

  UC San Diego Computer Science Student Akash Palla optimized a real-world earthquake wave propagation code to run more effectively on high performance resources including the world’s most powerful supercomputer.

  Published August 27, 2024

• Expanse Supercomputer Sims Advance Promising Alternative to Chemotherapy

  

  To avoid harming healthy cells during cancer treatments, scientists are researching noninvasive alternatives like photodynamic therapy, which combines light and chemicals.

  Published August 15, 2024

• Research Team Optimizes Code to Push Nuclear Fusion to the Next Level

  

  Using open-source simulation tools and supercomputers, researchers have discovered new clues to improving superhot plasma confinement within tokamak fusion reactors.

  Published August 15, 2024

• Expanse Supercomputer Helps Scientists Develop Promising Model for Studying Flexible Protein Structures

  

  Researchers created diffusion models – a machine learning method that can be trained to generate complex objects, such as three-dimensional structures of biomolecules – to study intrinsically disordered proteins.

  Published August 5, 2024

• Community College Students Use Expanse to Gain Experience in Computational Chemistry

  

  Before transferring to a four-year university, students gain real-world experiences in computational chemistry using SDSC's Expanse supercomputer and tools that enable them to create simulations to visualize their work.

  Published August 1, 2024