Facilities
For more than two decades, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has enabled ground-breaking science and engineering discoveries through advances in computational science and high performance computing. A key resource to academia and industry, SDSC provides leadership in Data Cyberinfrastructure, particularly with respect to data curation, management and preservation, data-oriented high-performance computing, and Cyberinfrastructure-enabled science and engineering. SDSC is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego and one of the founding sites of NSF's TeraGrid.
SDSC is housed in a building that sits on the campus at UC-San Diego and contains office space as well as a large machine room which houses the Center's compute and data resources.
On October 14, 2008, SDSC dedicated its new “green” 80,000 square foot building expansion which essentially doubled its size to nearly 160,000 square feet. In addition to offices and meeting rooms, the new expansion incorporated a 200-seat auditorium that can be reconfigured into two smaller spaces, research neighborhoods, a high-tech conference room with sophisticated teleconference gear and technology tools, and an advanced visualization lab. The expansion added nearly 5,000 square feet of machine room space, bringing the total machine room area to approximately 18,000 square feet. The new machine room was fitted with the latest power savings devices and design, while the old machine room was also retrofitted with energy efficiency in mind.
