Recent Press Releases

• SDSC’s Comet Supercomputer Helps Researchers Predict Carbon Dioxide Levels

  

  Due to changes in California’s land-use since the mid-1800s, the amount of carbon held in the Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems is likely to decline by approximately 10 percent through the year 2100

  Published December 5, 2019

• SDSC, Wisconsin U IceCube Center Conduct GPU Cloudburst Experiment

  

  This groundbreaking experiment successfully marshalled all globally available for-sale GPUs across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud Platform to process the computation

  Published November 19, 2019

• SDSC Shares Top Supercomputing Achievement Award for 2019

  

  SDSC received three top HPCwire honors for 2019, including the Readers’ Choice Award for the use of the Comet supercomputer in helping astrophysics researchers gain new insights into gravitational waves

  Published November 18, 2019

• 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