Recent Press Releases

• SDSC’s ‘Trestles’ Supercomputer Still Going Strong Three+ Years Later

  

  Billed as a “high-productivity workhorse” when entering service at SDSC in 2011, Trestles continues to be a valuable research resource in its "next life" at the University of Arkansas

  Published December 12, 2018

• A New Way to See Stress – Using Supercomputers

  

  Simulations show that at the atomic level, material stress doesn't behave symmetrically. Such findings could lead to the design of new materials such as glass or metal that won't ice up.

  Published December 4, 2018

• UC San Diego-Led Study Predicts Novel Approach to Battling Influenza

  

  Researchers used SDSC's Comet supercomputer to create detailed physics-based flu virus simulations

  Published November 27, 2018

• SDSC Receives HPCwire Awards for Top HPC Achievement, Life Sciences

  

  SDSC received two key HPCwire annual awards for 2018, recognizing the use of its Comet supercomputer to help find the first evidence of a source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos, and in a recent autism study

  Published November 13, 2018

• SDSC Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay Altintas Named an HDSI Fellow

  

  Altintas will help build a foundation for Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute by working with UC San Diego faculty, industry partners, and students at all levels

  Published October 30, 2018

• SDSC’s Health CI Division, University of Rhode Island Announce Data Protection Agreement

  

  Partnership will provide an environment to protect a variety of data for researchers and PIs across the URI campus

  Published October 16, 2018

• 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