Recent Press Releases

• San Diego Supercomputer Center Plays a Role in NSF’s New ICICLE Institute

  

  The AI Institute for Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure with Computational Learning in the Environment, or ICICLE, will focus on next-generation intelligent cyberinfrastructure that makes using AI as easy as plugging an appliance into an electrical outlet.

  Published July 29, 2021

• Accelerating Science from Idea to Publication with Bold National Research Platform

  

  NSF Awarded $5M to SDSC for its Prototype National Research Platform, a first-of-its-kind cyberinfrastructure ecosystem intended to help science drivers expedite science and enable transformative discoveries.

  Published July 28, 2021

• OpenTopography Introduces Tool to Calculate Landscape Change from Lidar Data

  

  Researchers and scientists collaborated to build on-demand topographic differencing tools that can reveal surface changes from events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, climate change and urban development.

  Published July 27, 2021

• SDSC Clears Pathways to Discovery for Industrial Partners

  

  SDSC's Expanse supercomputer has added significant capacity and capability in support of SDSC’s base of scientific users, including its industrial partners

  Published July 26, 2021

• Supercomputer-Generated Models Provide Better Understanding of Esophageal Disorders

  

  Gastroesophageal reflux disease, more commonly known as GERD, impacts around 20 percent of U.S. citizens, and can lead to serious medical issues If left untreated.

  Published July 23, 2021

• Computational Modeling Results in New Findings for Preeclampsia Patients

  

  To better understand preeclampsia, or pregnancy-related hypertension, researchers used SDSC's Comet supercomputer to detail the differences between normal and preeclampsia placental tissue.

  Published July 12, 2021

• Comprehensive Ice Sheets Gateway Helps Address Sea Level Rise

  

  Researchers at SUNY Buffalo recently teamed with colleagues at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Tufts University to publish a special issue paper entitled Building a Glaciology Gateway to Unify a Community.

  Published July 6, 2021

• SDSC Researchers Support High School Student in Study of Feline Genomics

  

  Comparative genomics researchers studied molecular mechanisms involved with feline cancers to improve research aimed at treatments for human cancers.

  Published July 1, 2021

• High-Performance Computing, Ecology Experts Team Up to Ease Study of Wildlife Movements

  

  The Spatial Ecology Gateway will enable researchers to upload biotelemetry data and construct home ranges allowing them to interpret animals’ use of space.

  Published June 23, 2021

• SDSC Software Architect’s Demo Captures the Attention of CERN

  

  A demonstration by SDSC's Shava Smallen, co-principal investigator and lead architect for the CloudBank user portal, caught the eye of CERN’s cloud team whose members will work with SDSC to adopt the CloudBank user portal at CERN.

  Published June 16, 2021