Recent News Releases

• San Diego Supercomputer Center Announces New Lead of Technology

  

  Rick Wagner will play a key role in the development of SDSC’s high-performance computing and data technology vision and roadmap, bringing together expertise across the center to drive technology innovation and its application to a wide range of research challenges.

  Published September 27, 2023

• Materials Science Researchers Double Up on SDSC, PSC Supercomputers to Discover New Details about TMDs

  

  Supercomputer simulations provide a better understanding of certain two-dimensional layered materials showing promise for a variety of applications – from flexible electronics and spintronics to optoelectronics and memory devices.

  Published September 21, 2023

• Machine Learning Offers New Insights for Improved Body Armor Applications

  

  Supercomputer simulations examine atomic level stress on boron carbide – a ceramic often used in body armor.

  Published September 18, 2023

• Shaking Up Earthquake Studies by Increasing Access to Data, Tools and Research Results

  

  Earthquake rupture forecast studies provide information about the probabilities of when earthquakes will occur, where they’ll take place and how strong they'll be, but the tools aren't available to most. That's about to change.

  Published September 13, 2023

• Department of Energy Project at UC Riverside Uses SDSC Resources for DNA Findings

  

  Understanding electron mobility within DNA could form the building blocks of next-generation biologically-based electronics.

  Published September 7, 2023

• Avocado Genome is at the Center of New Study

  

  Researchers turned to a descendant variety of Hass—the world's most popular avocado—to explore the fruit’s evolutionary history through its genome.

  Published September 5, 2023

• U.S. Department of Energy Selects Team to Advance Fusion Research

  

  The team will develop the Fusion Data Platform to provide reproducible artificial intelligence models for the scientific community to advance fusion research and support the deployment of the first generation of fusion energy power plants.

  Published September 1, 2023

• FARR Team Participates in Climate Informatics Conference at University of Cambridge

  

  Global participants in a Reproducibility Challenge created notebooks that reproduced the key contributions of a published environmental data science paper on ocean temperature models.

  Published August 30, 2023

• SDSC Showcases Several “Computing for the Common Good” Projects at PEARC23

  

  SDSC was represented by 23 researchers and staff – with paper presentations by several first authors including Amit Majumdar, Igor Sfiligoi and Mary Thomas.

  Published August 17, 2023

• Firing Up Fire Detection Efforts with Deep Learning Models

  

  Research experiments integrate detailed on-the-ground, real-time camera footage, satellite-based fire detections and weather data to provide a multimodal approach to the early detection of wildfires.

  Published August 9, 2023