Recent Press Releases

• Predictive Science, Inc. Releases Influenza Predictions

  

  The cumulative number of reported cases in San Diego is currently the largest within the last decade or so, suggesting that flu activity is going to be high

  Published November 1, 2019

• American Chemical Society Graduate Students Benefit from SDSC Support

  

  SDSC Director Michael Norman awarded two American Chemical Society graduate students with compute and storage resources using the Center’s Comet supercomputer for their work in theoretical chemistry

  Published October 21, 2019

• SDSC Launches Open-Source ‘SeedMeLab’

  

  SeedMeLab provides web-based building blocks that allow researchers to seamlessly manage and disseminate data products from a personalized and branded data cloud with full ownership and control on a variety of platforms, including mobile devices

  Published October 14, 2019

• Using Machine Learning to Hunt Down Cybercriminals

  

  Cybercriminals hijack IP addresses for a range of goals, from sending spam and malware to stealing Bitcoin. Researchers are using AI to identify suspicious networks and predict incidents in advance by tracing attacks back to the hijackers.

  Published October 9, 2019

• CAIDA’s KC Claffy Inducted Into Internet Hall of Fame

  

  KC has been recognized for pioneering the field of internet measurement and analysis and how it helped the global scientific research community better understand the internet and how it is used

  Published October 8, 2019

• SDSC, UC San Diego Awarded Two NSF Convergence Accelerator Grants

  

  Projects will evaluate how employers can use artificial intelligence tools to connect with workers they need, while seeking ways to develop the future U.S. workforce

  Published October 2, 2019

• Supercomputer Simulations Help Optimize Floating Wind Farms

  

  Offshore wind farms are a viable source of energy that can generate more power than land wind turbine farms, yet they need to operate in the uniquely challenging offshore environment

  Published September 18, 2019

• NSF Awards SDSC and Partners $5.9 Million to Host EarthCube Office

  

  The program aims to transform geoscience research by creating an advanced cyberinfrastructure to further access, sharing, visualization, and analysis of geosciences data and resources

  Published September 3, 2019

• Supercomputers Pave the Way for New Machine Learning Approach

  

  Transfer learning, a new approach to machine learning, allows researchers to model novel materials in milliseconds by learning from data collected about millions of other compounds

  Published August 28, 2019

• UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, U Washington Announce ‘CloudBank’ Award

  

  The universities have been awarded a five-year, $5 million grant to develop CloudBank, a suite of managed services to simplify public cloud access for computer science research and education

  Published August 8, 2019