Recent Press Releases

• High-Performance Computing Aids in Predicting Oil Dispersal During Spills

  

  For effective countermeasures to the thousands of oil spills that occur each year in the United States, researchers create supercomputer simulations to detail the behavior of oil droplets in water crossflows

  Published October 20, 2020

• Comet Supercomputer Enables 3-D Models of Fresh Water Plastic Pollution

  

  The transport of nine types of plastics floating in Lake Erie was modeled to develop the first ever three-dimensional mass estimate for plastic in Lake Erie

  Published October 12, 2020

• Comet Supercomputer Calculations Boost Understanding of Immune System

  

  Researchers study human T cell receptors, which play a vital role in alerting the adaptive immune system to mount an attack on invading foreign pathogens including the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

  Published October 7, 2020

• 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