Recent Press Releases

• Researchers Use Expanse Supercomputer to Better Understand the Sun’s Corona

  

  A week before a solar eclipse, viewers got the chance to see what it might look like thanks to simulations generated on SDSC's recently launched Expanse supercomputer

  Published January 15, 2021

• Supercomputer Models Describe Chloride’s Role in Corrosion

  

  Understanding the breakdown process in corrosion helps in the design of effective alloys and corrosion inhibitors that can increase the service life of structures exposed to chloride attacks

  Published January 5, 2021

• Supercomputers Simulate New Pathways for Potential RNA Virus Treatment

  

  Findings could help develop a new generation of drugs to target viruses with high death rates, such as HIV-1, Zika, Ebola, and SARS-CoV2

  Published December 17, 2020

• SDSC's Comet Aids in Sickle Cell Research Discovery

  

  Although there has yet to be a cure for sickle cell disease, researchers recently created detailed simulations showing how these stiff red blood cells flow through blood vessels, deforming and colliding along the way

  Published December 10, 2020

• SDSC Interns Co-Author Cancer Research Papers

  

  High school and undergraduate student interns worked with SDSC researchers on cancer studies published in scientific journals

  Published December 9, 2020

• SDSC’s Expanse Supercomputer Formally Enters Production

  

  Expanse supports SDSC's theme of ‘Computing without Boundaries’ with powerful CPUs, GPUs, and a data-centric architecture that supports a wide range of scientific workloads including experimental facilities, edge computing, and public clouds

  Published December 8, 2020

• SDSC Team Models Potential SARS-CoV2 Protease Inhibitors for COVID-19

  

  Among the drugs computationally selected were those currently used to inhibit HIV, Hepatitis C, and cytomesalovirus as well as a set of repurposed FDA-approved drugs that demonstrated positive effects on combatting COVID-19

  Published December 1, 2020

• UC San Diego Student Team Shines at Supercomputing 2020 Conference

  

  SDSC's first fielded team competed in this year’s virtual Student Cluster Competition and achieved fourth place overall among 19 teams during the 72-hour challenge

  Published November 30, 2020

• SDSC Receives Two ‘Best’ HPCwire Awards for 2020

  

  SDSC received two HPCwire awards for 2020, including ‘Best Use of HPC (High-Performance Computing) in the Cloud’, and ‘Best Use of HPC in Energy’

  Published November 16, 2020

• National Science Foundation Forms Throughput Computing Partnership

  

  The project seeks to harness the computing capacity of thousands of computers assembled in a network of campus clusters to cut time to science result that might take years, to be done in days

  Published November 9, 2020