Recent Press Releases

• ‘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

• SDSC Awarded $5 Million to Develop Innovative AI Resource

  

  Voyager, with an innovative architecture uniquely optimized for deep learning operations and AI workloads, will be the first-of-its-kind system in the NSF resource portfolio

  Published July 1, 2020

• Supercomputer Simulations Show How DNA Prepares Itself for Repair

  

  Researchers recently used the Comet supercomputer to uncover the novel ways in which DNA (which is under attack every second of every day by environmental and behavioral factors) prepares itself for repair

  Published June 25, 2020

• SDSC’s Sherlock Cloud Announces Skylab

  

  SDSC's Sherlock Division has broadened its secure Cloud solutions portfolio to offer Skylab, an innovative customer-owned Cloud platform solution that provides a self-standing, compliant environment for secure workloads in the Amazon Web Services Cloud

  Published June 23, 2020

• Georgia Tech Engineers Simulate Solar Cell Work Using Supercomputers

  

  Because of silicon’s relatively high cost, hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites have emerged as a lower-cost – and highly efficient – option for solar power

  Published June 22, 2020

• SDSC Sherlock Cloud adds Google Cloud Platform to Extend its Multi-Cloud Service Offering

  

  SDSC Sherlock has partnered with Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure to provide compliant solutions for academia and the greater research community

  Published June 15, 2020

• UC San Diego’s CREATE and SDSC Awarded National K-12 STEM Grant

  

  The grant will help introduce computing into high school math classrooms by funding a Summer Institute for regional high school teachers and a Summer Academy for military-connected, underserved, and underrepresented rising seniors

  Published June 9, 2020

• Fighting COVID-19 with Knowledge Graphs

  

  Researchers are launching an effort to organize COVID-19 information into a transdisciplinary knowledge network that integrates health, pathogen, and environmental data to better track cases to improve analysis and forecasting across the greater San Diego region

  Published June 1, 2020

• Supercomputers Reveal True Strengths of Some Zirconia Ceramics

  

  Zirconia-based ceramics are useful for an array of applications ranging from dental implants and artificial joints to jet engine parts

  Published May 18, 2020