Recent Press Releases

• SDSC to Help Create Science Gateway for New Materials Discovery

  

  The X-ray Imaging of Microstructures Gateway will make it possible for global material sciences researchers to study the behavior of new and existing materials using X-ray diffraction

  Published September 10, 2020

• National Science Foundation-funded CloudBank Now Operational

  

  The CloudBank portal provides researchers with a simplified interface to compare and access a variety of cloud provider services and monitor spending through a unified dashboard

  Published September 1, 2020

• Machine Learning Helps Plasma Physics Researchers Understand Turbulence Transport

  

  Supercomputer simulations could advance clean fusion energy use by revealing new insights into plasma turbulence

  Published August 27, 2020

• OpenTopography Collaboration Awarded New 4-Year Grant

  

  Access to high-res topographic and shallow water bathymetric data has revolutionized environmental sciences and engineering, contributing to the study of earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and human modification of the Earth's surface

  Published August 24, 2020

• SDSC’s Comet Supercomputer Helps Uncover Noisy Neutron Star Collisions

  

  It may seem strange to talk about “quiet” versus “noisy” collisions when discussing neutron stars, but many such impacts form a black hole that swallows all but the gravitational evidence

  Published August 14, 2020

• ‘Comet’ Supercomputer Used to Simulate Environmental Changes in Chesapeake Bay

  

  Historical increases in fertilizers and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have forced the bay to behave increasingly like a small sea on a continental shelf rather than a traditional estuary

  Published August 6, 2020

• San Diego Supercomputer Center’s Comet Helps with Solar Wind Predictions

  

  To mitigate the adverse effects of space weather that can cause severe damage to power grids, satellites, and many other technological infrastructures, researchers use machine learning to better understand geomagnetic storms

  Published July 7, 2020

• SDSC Awarded $5 Million to Develop Innovative AI Resource

  

  Voyager, with an innovative architecture uniquely optimized for deep learning operations and AI workloads, will be the first-of-its-kind system in the NSF resource portfolio

  Published July 1, 2020

• Supercomputer Simulations Show How DNA Prepares Itself for Repair

  

  Researchers recently used the Comet supercomputer to uncover the novel ways in which DNA (which is under attack every second of every day by environmental and behavioral factors) prepares itself for repair

  Published June 25, 2020

• SDSC’s Sherlock Cloud Announces Skylab

  

  SDSC's Sherlock Division has broadened its secure Cloud solutions portfolio to offer Skylab, an innovative customer-owned Cloud platform solution that provides a self-standing, compliant environment for secure workloads in the Amazon Web Services Cloud

  Published June 23, 2020