Recent Press Releases

• San Diego Supercomputer Center Opens New BlockLAB Research Laboratory

  

  SDSC's Center for Large Scale Data Systems has opened a new blockchain research laboratory with the objectives of exploring the principal technologies and business use cases in blockchains, distributed ledgers, digital transactions, and smart contracts

  Published September 25, 2018

• SDSC Awarded a Three-Year NSF Grant for Data Reproducibility Research

  

  Open Science Chain will design and develop cyberinfrastructure that allows researchers to efficiently share information about their scientific data and securely verify its authenticity while preserving provenance and lineage information

  Published August 29, 2018

• CIPRES Awarded Two Federal Grants to Support Innovations in Biological Research

  

  The CIPRES science gateway, which supports major discoveries about evolutionary relationships among our planet’s living creatures, has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health to sustain and enhance the gateway

  Published August 23, 2018

• Where Are They Now? SDSC Tracks Summer Research Experiences

  

  Data collected and analyzed as one of several projects of this year’s program shows that many previous REHS participants followed a computer science and engineering path into college, graduate school, and beyond.

  Published August 21, 2018

• SDSC’s ‘Comet’ Supercomputer Extended into 2021

  

  The National Science Foundation has awarded SDSC nearly $2.4 million to extend operations of the widely-used Comet supercomputer through March 2021

  Published July 31, 2018

• NSF's IceCube Observatory Finds First Evidence of Cosmic Neutrino Source

  

  SDSC’s ‘Comet’ Supercomputer & Open Science Grid Assist in Discovery

  Published July 12, 2018

• Supercomputers Help Design Mutant Enzyme that Eats Plastic Bottles

  

  Supercomputers help study the binding of a plastic-degrading enzyme, PETase, which could lead to developing industrial-scale plastic recycling for throw-away bottles and carpet

  Published June 28, 2018

• West Big Data Hub at SDSC to Partner for Data Storage Network under New NSF Grant

  

  The Open Storage Network will enable national collaborations and allow academic researchers across the nation to share their data more efficiently than ever before

  Published June 19, 2018

• SDSC Comet and Machine Learning Simulates H2O with “Unprecedented Accuracy”

  

  Molecular simulations using modern supercomputers are key to the rational design of novel materials with applications ranging from fuel cells to water purification systems, atmospheric climate models and computational drug design

  Published June 13, 2018

• How an Enzyme Repairs DNA via a “Pinch-Push-Pull” Mechanism

  

  When it comes to preserving one of biology’s basic processes – the replication of the genetic code – supercomputer simulations reveal the difference between normal cell division and a potentially hazardous mutation

  Published May 30, 2018