Recent Press Releases

• Fighting COVID-19 with Knowledge Graphs

  

  Researchers are launching an effort to organize COVID-19 information into a transdisciplinary knowledge network that integrates health, pathogen, and environmental data to better track cases to improve analysis and forecasting across the greater San Diego region

  Published June 1, 2020

• Supercomputers Reveal True Strengths of Some Zirconia Ceramics

  

  Zirconia-based ceramics are useful for an array of applications ranging from dental implants and artificial joints to jet engine parts

  Published May 18, 2020

• Supercomputing Drug Screening For Deadly Heart Arrhythmias

  

  To help prevent sudden cardiac arrest caused by the side effects from medications, scientists are now using supercomputers to screen drugs through their chemical structures for induced arrhythmias

  Published May 14, 2020

• Supercomputer Simulations Help Advance Electrochemical Reaction Research

  

  Single-atom catalysts (such as nickel embedded in a thin layer of graphite) have recently emerged as promising innovations for solving environmental and energy issues

  Published May 11, 2020

• SDSC Mourns the Loss of Ann Redelfs

  

  Ann was a major force in the evolution of SDSC, instrumental in establishing the organizational culture at the heart of much of its success

  Published April 23, 2020

• UC San Diego Researchers Optimize Microbiome Tool for Computer GPUs

  

  Researchers have been applying their high-performance computing expertise to increase the acceleration and accuracy of scientific discovery, including urgently needed COVID-19 research

  Published April 17, 2020

• SDSC Researchers Develop Potential COVID-19 Protease Inhibitors

  

  SDSC researchers mine a database of FDA-approved drugs to repurpose compounds that could potentially mount a defense against coronavirus

  Published April 15, 2020

• SDSC’s Comet Supercomputer, TSCC Available for COVID-19 Research

  

  With countries working ‘round the clock to mitigate the devastating effects of COVID-19, SDSC is providing priority access to its HPC systems and resources to advance understanding of the virus and efforts to develop an effective vaccine as quickly as possible

  Published April 8, 2020

• Supercomputers Assist International Engineering Team on Wave Energy Project

  

  Similar to solar panels and wind turbines, wave energy converters harness energy from Mother Nature's resources – specifically ocean waves – and turn them into electricity

  Published April 7, 2020

• Using Artificial Intelligence to Learn More about RAGE Receptors

  

  Receptor Advanced Glycation End-products–thought to be linked to several chronic diseases–are the focus of a new study which uses artificial intelligence machine learning tools to design RAGE inhibitors with better efficacy and fewer side effects

  Published March 30, 2020