Cyberinfrastructure

Today, technology is everywhere, and nowhere more so than within the science and engineering community. Scientists and engineers increasingly rely on the availability of globally accessible information "cyberinfrastructure" to drive research and education.

Cyberinfrastructure provides a broad and useful spectrum of integrated technologies to support increasingly complex, large-scale and cooperative scientific endeavors. Most science and engineering users work from a "home" research laboratory, academic department, or local environment. When a research project's technological needs outgrows the capabilities of their home environment, cyberinfrastructure can "extend the reach" of the scientist by providing needed databases, computation, and other resources remotely.

SDSC provides an integrated set of software, services, and environments including:

An internationally renowned data management environment as well as leadership-class storage technologies
A broad spectrum of software tools, portals, workbenches, and packages integrated to develop and deploy complex applications
Help users get the most out of high-performance computing
A range of collaboration vehicles
An Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory, which provides an environment for designing, developing, and testing software and hardware systems at scale.
The SDSC/Calit2 Synthesis Center, which enables cross-project fertilization and leverage of common software architectures and technologies
User support 24-hours a day, 7 days a week
Strategic Application Collaborations and Strategic Community Collaborations to help users and communities maximize the potential of available infrastructure to achieve the best results
The Synthesis Center, Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory as well as access to high-end data and computational facilities
New and continuing training