Published August 18, 2004
A team of biomedical researchers based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the Moores UCSD Cancer Center, and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has made an important discovery in modeling the functions of enzymes in the human body based on their molecular structures -- a discovery with implications for drug design and cancer treatment.
Published August 16, 2004
Information technology plays an increasingly central role in genomic science. To speed up a key database search for scientists, Giridhar Chukkapalli, Chittibabu Guda, and Shankar Subramaniam of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego have implemented the SledgeHMMER Web server, which offers researchers genome-scale searching of the Pfam database, an important genomics resource.
Published August 16, 2004
GEON, the Geosciences Network, has announced that it is now hosting NAVDAT, the Western North American Volcanic and Intrusive Rock Database. The collaborative arrangement is expected to have numerous benefits, including expanding the range of Earth science data collections that geoscientists can seamlessly access through GEON, while at the same time freeing the NAVDAT scientists from having to deal with information technology issues so that they can focus more fully on science.
Published August 4, 2004
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has released version 3.2 of Zone SRB, the SDSC Storage Resource Broker (SRB) scientific data management system. Version 3.2 offers faster command line performance, support for the Informix database in the SRB Metadata Catalog (MCAT), faster file transfers for users inside firewalls, and numerous improvements in installation, administration, and the SRB server.
Published July 26, 2004
The Rocks development team at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is celebrating two milestones: passing the 50 teraflops mark in aggregate computing power, and the release of version 3.2 of the cluster computer management software suite.
Published July 20, 2004
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) will launch on Monday, July 19, TeacherTECH 2004, three one-week courses designed to allow San Diego K-12 teachers to explore and examine different multimedia and web applications for use in classroom curriculum.
Published July 19, 2004
<strong> </strong>The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) today announced that it will host its 10th Annual Summer Institute August 23-27, 2004. Held in the SDSC building at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and entitled "SDSC Summer Institute: Data Computing," the week-long program will provide researchers with an introduction to the concepts and tools available in established and new technologies for the creation, manipulation, dissemination and analysis of large datasets.
Published July 14, 2004
For the tenth year in a row, SDSC's Director of Visualization Mike Bailey will teach the day-long "Introduction to Computer Graphics" course at SIGGRAPH 2004. The conference will be held in Los Angeles from August 8 to 12. The graphics course is one of the most popular features of the annual conference.
Published July 14, 2004
Various branches of federal, state, and local government are integrating their information management systems, to increase their efficiency and interoperability and to enable law enforcement and homeland security officials to correlate data in disparate databases. But how can they fulfill their responsibilities to serve and protect the public and still guarantee that the privacy and constitutional rights of individual citizens are protected?
Published July 13, 2004
These are exciting times for those interested in human origins. After almost a century of knowledge gleaned from the excavation of hominid bones in East Africa, the draft sequence of the chimpanzee genome is now providing a flood of molecular data that may shed new light on human origins.
Published July 9, 2004
Published July 8, 2004
The Regional Workbench Consortium (RWBC), part of the Superfund Basic Research Project (SBRP) at UC San Diego and a San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) partner, received a First Place Award in the category of Academic Leadership and Service from the San Diego Section of the American Planning Association. The award was presented at the June American Planning Association Awards ceremony, and makes the RWBC eligible to compete for a statewide award from the California Chapter of the American Planning Association.
Published July 8, 2004
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) will host a week-long Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists August 16-21, 2004. The Institute will provide training in advanced information technologies for researchers in the geosciences community.
Published July 1, 2004
Published June 21, 2004
A new research center at the University of California San Diego will study the genetic origins of disease, the university announced yesterday.
Published June 21, 2004
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Fran Berman is director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego. Berman also directs the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, a consortium planning improvements to the national computing infrastructure for research.
Published May 24, 2004
Reagan Moore, Distinguished Scientist and co-director of the Data and Knowledge Systems program at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego, has been invited to deliver a keynote address at the 19th International Supercomputing Conference 2004 (ISC2004) to be held in Heidelberg, Germany, June 22-25.
Published May 21, 2004
Published May 21, 2004
The annual Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS) will celebrate its 10th anniversary in Berkeley, California, the city where the conference was first held in 1995.
Published May 20, 2004
Backyard astronomers who want to get a glimpse of Jupiter's characteristic spots should look quickly. A recent report from Dr. Philip S. Marcus, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley predicts many of Jupiter's large storm vortices, which appear in the telescope as spots, may soon vanish.
Published May 3, 2004
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has released version 3.1 of Zone SRB, the widely-used SDSC Storage Resource Broker (SRB) middleware package. One of the most advanced and comprehensive production tools in the world for scientific data management, Zone SRB supports scalable collections from single-user to large, multi-institution collaborations.
Published April 28, 2004
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego is shaking up "cyberinfrastructure." The center's education department is hosting the first annual Creative Writing Contest and will award an Apple iPod Mini digital music player to three winning San Diego County Middle School students.
Published April 20, 2004
Published April 20, 2004
Join your colleagues at the next meeting of The San Diego Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), featuring David Moore of CAIDA at the UCSD Supercomputer Center. He'll discuss recent trends in Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, how they are detected, how they spread, and their implications.
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In just over two decades, the death toll from AIDS has passed twenty million. And the AIDS crisis continues with the disease infecting people around the world, including millions of children. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, after years of frustration, AIDS researchers succeeded in developing a class of drugs known as protease inhibitors that proved to be highly effective against AIDS.
Published March 25, 2004
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The GEON Project, which is building a modern cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences, presented well-attended papers and demos at three national meetings.
Published March 1, 2004
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Published February 11, 2004
Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have released Version 3.1.0 of the Rocks cluster toolkit to support three processor families: Intel's 32-bit Pentium and 64-bit Itanium CPUs, and AMD's 64-bit Opteron.
Published February 11, 2004
Published February 4, 2004
Published February 4, 2004
Cybercrime and cyberterrorism continue to pose serious threats to the social, commercial and economic infrastructure of our country. But before we can begin to assess the extent of the problem and reduce the threat, we need accurate data on the prevalence of cybercrime.
Published February 3, 2004
The first computing systems of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project are in production mode, making 4.5 teraflops of distributed computing power available to scientists across the country who are conducting research in a wide range of disciplines, from astrophysics to environmental science.
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