Groups & Labs

SDSC's labs and groups offer a number of cyberinfrastructure services to scientists and engineers, helping them reach their goals quickly and more efficiently. The center's users can tap into a number of groups with expertise in areas such as data management, visualization and grid development. SDSC also has an education group that brings cutting-edge research and science curriculum to students, teachers and parents.

PMaC: Performance Modeling and Characterization – Funded by the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the National Science Foundation (NSF), PMaC's mission is to bring scientific rigor to the prediction and understanding of factors that affect the performance of current and projected high-performance computing platforms.

SDSC/Calit2 Synthesis Center – Despite the ubiquity of remote collaboration tools and technologies, real science still happens mainly in face-to-face meetings. The Synthesis Center is an interactive collaboration environment where groups of scientists and engineers come together for face-to-face sessions to directly address science questions using cyberinfrastructure tools. It comprises a large meeting space, with a host of display devices and a private conference room with a high-resolution projection system.

Visualization at SDSC – The Visualization Group is now part of the SDSC/Calit2 Synthesis Center, providing resources and expertise to the research community.