Recent Press Releases

• SDSC’s Phylogenetics Science Gateway Awarded NSF/Internet2 Grant

  

  The popular CIPRES science gateway has been awarded a grant to let users take advantage of more powerful compute processors available from a commercial cloud provider to accelerate their scientific discoveries

  Published April 8, 2019

• Melissa Cragin Joins SDSC’s Research Data Services Group

  

  UIUC Alum named Chief Strategist to help expand data service offerings

  Published April 8, 2019

• Supercomputers Aid Our Understanding of Complex Brain Waves

  

  Leveraging the power of the Comet supercomputer UC San Diego researchers can efficiently analyze EEG data sets via the new Open EEGLAB Portal running on SDSC’s Neuroscience Gateway

  Published April 1, 2019

• SDSC and Sylabs Spread the Word on Singularity

  

  Singularity has quickly become an essential tool in improving the productivity of researchers by simplifying the development and portability challenges of working with complex scientific software

  Published March 27, 2019

• Supercomputer Simulations Help Combat Tuberculosis Granulomas

  

  Globally, tuberculosis is the greatest cause of death due to infection. With the help of supercomputers, researchers developed detailed models to better understand how TB spreads throughout the lungs.

  Published March 19, 2019

• UC San Diego Study Points to Virus-Related Acceleration in Some Cancers

  

  While the HTLV-1 virus is known to cause a rare cancer called adult T-cell leukemia, new research indicates it may also play a role in the accelerated development of breast cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, and glioblastoma

  Published March 14, 2019

• SDSC’s Research Data Services to Host First U.S. GO FAIR Office

  

  GO FAIR is a ‘bottom up’ initiative that aims to ensure that data is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable

  Published February 28, 2019

• Revealing the Role of Neutron Stars in Gravitational Wave Discoveries

  

  Supercomputer simulations shine a light on how merging neutron stars create gravitational waves, black holes, and massive neutrino-driven winds

  Published February 19, 2019

• Researchers Flood the Boundaries of Chemistry

  

  UC San Diego scientists tackle water scarcity issues by creating realistic computer simulations in order to develop materials that could be used to extract water from the atmosphere

  Published February 14, 2019

• Decoding the Human Immune System

  

  For the first time ever, researchers are comprehensively sequencing the human immune system, which is billions of times larger than the human genome

  Published February 13, 2019