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.
Grid Development Group – An arm of SDSC's Techology Research & Development division, the Grid Development Group's mission is to develop grid middleware tools and technology that meets the needs of various projects. They offer software that allows users to create custom grid portals and access grid resources, as well as to automatically test, benchmark and monitor grid systems.
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.
SciRAD: Sciences Research and Development Group – SciRAD supports the cyberinfrastructure needs of all kinds of researchers across the disciplines of the natural sciences. Groups within the Division create and develop the data systems, computational and analytical tools, both theoretical and applied, that are essential for discovery. Within the Division, there are four main groups that focus on:
- a wide range of applications for domain scientists in the physical and life sciences
- a center with an interactive collaboration environment for scientists and engineers incorporating state of the art visualization, computational and data analysis resources
- end-to-end scientific data management in data-intensive computing, employing integration, mining, querying, modeling, workflows, spatial analysis
- the National Laboratory for Advanced Data Research (NLADR), a scalable cyberinfrastructure to support data driven science, in collaboration with NCSA
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.
