Recent News Releases

• 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

• NSF Awards $5.3M Supplement to SDSC to Increase Expanse's AI Capabilities

  

  The expansion will enable researchers to train complex models that can be applied to a wide range of real-life applications such as weather prediction, health care, smart manufacturing and self-driving cars.

  Published July 23, 2024

• UC Regents Approve New School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences at UC San Diego

  

  The new school combines the strengths of SDSC, a national leader in high-performance and data-intensive computing, and HDSI, a pioneering interdisciplinary institute that advances data science and AI education and research.

  Published July 19, 2024

• SDSC Mentor Assistance Program Inspires High School Students in STEM

  

  Students were paired with expert mentors throughout the UC San Diego campus from a variety of disciplines to conduct in-depth research projects over the course of eight months.

  Published July 16, 2024