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PIs met to discuss collaboration opportunities between their projects covering topics from quantum free energy methods to seismic simulators, to a Center of Excellence for creating science gateways, to cosmology and astrophysics.
Published December 6, 2023
An internet research team at SDSC reviewed catastrophic network outages – both unintentional and intentional attacks – based on access network maps to analyze them and then better understand how to mitigate such situations in the future.
Published November 30, 2023
A Florida research team tapped offsite supercomputers to model complex reactions on catalyst surfaces that have the possibility of producing renewable and clean energy and fuels.
Published November 29, 2023
SPARK AI’s consortium model is designed to foster collaboration and innovation by engaging a diverse range of stakeholders and perspectives in artificial intelligence
Published November 14, 2023
SDSC wins two HPCwire Awards at the 2023 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC23), in Denver, Colorado. The highly coveted HPC community recognition includes Readers' Choice and Editors' Choice awards.
Published November 13, 2023
SDSC has developed a new training program to assist domain scientists and applied mathematicians with learning the ins and outs of supercomputing.
Published November 3, 2023
Fuel cells, which convert chemical energy from reactants like hydrogen and oxygen to electrical energy, have many benefits over traditional combustion-based technologies, but it's difficult to implement. Researchers used Expanse to try to change that.
Published November 1, 2023
Javier Duarte's experimental work involving artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as his contributions to advances in Higgs physics studies at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN earned him the American Physical Society award.
Published October 26, 2023
The unique TeraCore ring network infrastructure spans the continental U.S. and has reached a project milestone by demonstrating data transmission speeds of one trillion bits per second.
Published October 23, 2023
The conference illustrated how data science and related applications can be used in water resource fields and held a competition promoting the use of open water data to foster innovation and more informed decision-making.
Published October 20, 2023
Schmidt AI Postdoctoral Fellow Jessica Kendall-Bar is working with SDSC’s Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay Altintas, who also serves as associate director for education in the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship program.
Published October 18, 2023
SDSC’s StudentTech robotics workshop used advanced LEGO kits for teaching creative problem-solving, communication and teamwork skills in science, technology, engineering and math to middle-school students.
Published October 17, 2023
Mike Dwyer, who joined SDSC in 2005, retired from his role as SDSC’s leader in web services, including web hosting, database service, programming and related services.
Published October 16, 2023
The AT1 receptor is a very important drug target. Understanding how physical stimuli affect its function may help the scientific community develop better treatments for heart and kidney diseases.
Published October 5, 2023
The OpenTopography science gateway facilitates efficient access to topography data, tools and resources to advance our understanding of the Earth’s surface, vegetation and built environment.
Published October 3, 2023
Rick Wagner will play a key role in the development of SDSC’s high-performance computing and data technology vision and roadmap, bringing together expertise across the center to drive technology innovation and its application to a wide range of research challenges.
Published September 27, 2023
Supercomputer simulations provide a better understanding of certain two-dimensional layered materials showing promise for a variety of applications – from flexible electronics and spintronics to optoelectronics and memory devices.
Published September 21, 2023
Supercomputer simulations examine atomic level stress on boron carbide – a ceramic often used in body armor.
Published September 18, 2023
Earthquake rupture forecast studies provide information about the probabilities of when earthquakes will occur, where they’ll take place and how strong they'll be, but the tools aren't available to most. That's about to change.
Published September 13, 2023
Understanding electron mobility within DNA could form the building blocks of next-generation biologically-based electronics.
Published September 7, 2023
Researchers turned to a descendant variety of Hass—the world's most popular avocado—to explore the fruit’s evolutionary history through its genome.
Published September 5, 2023
The team will develop the Fusion Data Platform to provide reproducible artificial intelligence models for the scientific community to advance fusion research and support the deployment of the first generation of fusion energy power plants.
Published September 1, 2023
Global participants in a Reproducibility Challenge created notebooks that reproduced the key contributions of a published environmental data science paper on ocean temperature models.
Published August 30, 2023
SDSC was represented by 23 researchers and staff – with paper presentations by several first authors including Amit Majumdar, Igor Sfiligoi and Mary Thomas.
Published August 17, 2023
Research experiments integrate detailed on-the-ground, real-time camera footage, satellite-based fire detections and weather data to provide a multimodal approach to the early detection of wildfires.
Published August 9, 2023
To showcase the technology’s impact in hazardous settings such as wildfire response and mitigation, the team recently completed a prescribed burn concept demonstration utilizing edge computing – a strategy emphasizing data collection and analysis at or near data sources.
Published August 7, 2023
A Notre Dame professor has been selected to join SDSC's data services research efforts, including global outreach.
Published August 7, 2023
For more than two decades, Miller has utilized SDSC’s unique resources to create projects designed to accelerate discovery in biology. His work has focused on making it easier for biologists to access high performance computing.
Published August 4, 2023
Using SDSC's Expanse, researchers uncovered new insights into the role of convection and its importance to thunderstorms and weather systems in energy distribution at both local and global scales.
Published July 27, 2023
The search for superconductors that can function at room temperature has been ongoing for roughly a century, but research has sped up dramatically in the last decade because of advances in machine learning using supercomputers such as Expanse.
Published July 18, 2023
During the conference, high-performance computing, data and cyberinfrastructure experts discussed challenges and opportunities for collaboration at the national and international levels.
Published July 13, 2023
The e-Decision Tree has become a “go-to” online tool for school officials who have needed to quickly generate authoritative guidelines for parents and for students and staff infected or exposed to the virus.
Published July 12, 2023
Teams were challenged to create the most efficient cluster using single board computers—PCs inclusive of all components in one board—to perform complex tasks while remaining below the power and cost limits.
Published June 28, 2023
The NSDF multi-federation catalog has grown to more than 1.5 billion records from 68 community repositories with over 75 petabytes of data.
Published June 27, 2023
Because computational needs fluctuate throughout college-level courses, CloudBank provides resources for an auto-scaling, Jupyter hub-based learning platform that scales up when assignments are due and back down in between assignments.
Published June 21, 2023
In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists from UC San Diego have made a major stroke in simulating water's phase diagram with remarkable precision using SDSC's Expanse supercomputer.
Published June 13, 2023
An award ceremony celebrated the year-long collaboration between Pala and SDSC which led students through hands-on experiments related to data science and science.
Published June 6, 2023
The MLCommons Science Working Group encourages and supports the curation of large-scale experimental and scientific datasets and the engineering of machine learning benchmarks operating on those datasets.
Published May 31, 2023
Former REHS student's participation in the SDSC program introduced him to academic research and helped him make the decision to study computer science at UC San Diego.
Published May 24, 2023
Massive solar flares can wreak havoc on today’s complex technological and communications systems. Scientists used Expanse to simulate a set of fluid flows that may someday help researchers predict the frequency and intensity of such solar flares.
Published May 17, 2023
A multimillion-dollar cyberinfrastructure resource for the national research community has reached a milestone. PNRP has entered formal operations as a testbed for exploring a wide range of hardware and new approaches for moving data over high-performance content delivery networks.
Published May 10, 2023
In conjunction with her role as secretary general for the International Science Council’s Committee on Data, SDSC's Christine Kirkpatrick chaired the opening session at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization FAIR symposium.
Published May 2, 2023
Researchers have been studying how to create some of the tiniest motors ever invented – with inspiration from biological systems like DNA.
Published April 28, 2023
Perovskites have recently been studied by several worldwide scientists because of their potential use in solar cells as they offer both stability and efficiency in materials design.
Published April 25, 2023
The OpenSFS annual Lustre User Group meeting will be held in-person for the first time since 2019 at the San Diego Supercomputer Center on the UC San Diego campus. This is an excellent opportunity to connect with those running and using large scale, parallel file systems.
Published April 20, 2023
SDSC offers an array of summer camps for middle and high school students providing an opportunity to learn about advanced science, technology, computer science and engineering topics in a fun and supportive environment.
Published April 18, 2023
Amit Chourasia will focus on expanding FAIR services for research and education community.
Published April 14, 2023
This fellowship will provide Ferbert with training and resources to foster his professional development in cybersecurity and join a network of like-minded individuals within the NSF’s program.
Published April 11, 2023
In places where supermarkets are distant, a new project aims to develop an AI-powered platform which will help small business owners provide convenient, affordable and healthier food resources to people in their communities
Published March 30, 2023
Simulations that were created to model the friction between two rough surfaces coated with fatty acids revealed that the junctions between the “mountains” of the surfaces affect friction levels when two surfaces in contact are at rest for a period of time.
Published March 29, 2023
A UC San Diego student in SDSC's Research Experience for Undergraduates program shares his data science knowledge with local high school students.
Published March 22, 2023
Project leaders from SDSC have a seat at a global table to discuss work on integrating system science and data science in support of knowledge and decision-making related to groundwater systems in transboundary areas.
Published March 16, 2023
The nanoHUB science gateway seeks to make simulation and data universally available and useful – through this new partnership, users now have access to hands-on, online computational chemistry and materials science courses.
Published March 15, 2023
Planes, trains and cruise ships travel by the power of gas turbines. Simulations of combustion engines that convert liquid fuel to mechanical energy offer new ways to develop more efficient and cleaner gas turbine combustion systems.
Published March 7, 2023
Joint effort is giving the research community in Asia a big boost with a technology tool to advance scientific discovery in the region.
Published March 3, 2023
Using SDSC's Expanse supercomputer, researchers aim to help combat Alzheimers disease with computational biology studies on how mutations of a critical protein enzyme could be treated to better control thought, language and memory.
Published February 23, 2023
Doing an experiment with a cake on a cookie sounds simple, but when researchers developed a unique dataset for combining 2D graphene and 3D tin, the process was all but simple – it required a great deal of computing power.
Published February 16, 2023
SDSC's External Relations Division works to represent the Center through various modes of communication—from news and feature stories, to social media and multimedia, to programs and events and web services.
Published February 10, 2023
The new consortium brings together public universities and national laboratories and offers a tailored curriculum and intensive research opportunities for graduate students in the areas of hardware-software co-design, collaborative software infrastructure, and high-performance software and algorithms.
Published February 7, 2023
Computational chemists reduce or eliminate hazardous materials by running simulations to develop fast, accurate models. MIT researchers use SDSC's supercomputer to explore the luminescent properties of iridium-centered phosphors.
Published January 27, 2023
StudentTECH intern at SDSC served in Biden Administration, credits skills developed at SDSC for professional successes, including as Congressional Policy Advisor for U.S. General Services Administration.
Published January 19, 2023
Human cells are often a mixture of both abnormal and normal DNA – a mosaic, so to speak, and like the art form, this complex montage is difficult to understand. Neuroscience researchers are training computers to unveil new methods for DNA mosaic recognition.
Published January 12, 2023