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.

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

Walker Molecular Dynamics Lab - Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the University of California. Practical applications of the techniques development in the lab include the development of next generation viral inhibitors and improvement of the efficiency of cellulose to bio-ethanol conversion in support of the U.S. DoE mandate to replace the use of fossil fuels with clean renewable sources.