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SDSC’s ‘Expanse’ Supercomputer Helps Researchers Better Understand the Sun’s Corona

January 15, 2021

As mandates prevented gatherings over the holiday season, crowds in Chile and Argentina donned masks and eye shields to view some a two-minute solar eclipse on December 14. A week before, researchers at PSI used SDSC's Expanse supercomputer to see how closely they could simulate the event.

Fresh Sea Spray Turns ‘Sour’ after Being Airborne

January 8, 2021

UC San Diego chemistry researchers find that the smallest fresh sea spray particles become 100,000 times more acidic than the ocean within two minutes.

Supercomputer Models Describe Chloride’s Role in Corrosion

January 5, 2021

Simulations conducted using the Comet supercomputer at UC San Diego's San Diego Supercomputer Center provide new insights on how chloride corrodes structural metals, causing severe economic and environmental impacts.

Supercomputers Simulate New Pathways for Potential RNA Virus Treatment

December 17, 2020

New simulations done on supercomputers may help researchers understand how these inhibitors react and potentially help to develop a new generation of drugs to target viruses with high death rates including SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

SDSC’s ‘Expanse’ Supercomputer Formally Enters Production

December 8, 2020

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego announced that its new Expanse supercomputer formally entered service for researchers following a program review by the National Science Foundation, which awarded SDSC a grant in mid-2019 to build the innovative system.

Diamonds May Be Award-Winning Physicist’s Best Friend

December 2, 2020

Physicist Chunhui Du was selected to receive the U.S. Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award for her nanoscale quantum sensing technique using diamonds to study novel and unconventional superconductor materials.

Scientists Use Geometry to Track Cell Migrations

December 1, 2020

Researchers from UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara combine physics and biology to find that the physical environment where cells migrate through tight spaces is worth considering when studying conditions like development of the brain or movement of immune cells through lymph nodes and tumors.

UC San Diego Student Team Shines at Supercomputing 2020 Conference

November 30, 2020

A team fielded for the first time by SDSC and UC San Diego achieved 4th place overall out of 19 teams in the Student Cluster Competition, held during the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC20).

Five UC San Diego Experts Elected AAAS Fellows in 2020

November 24, 2020

American Association for the Advancement of Science honors the contributions of UC San Diego leaders in astrophysics, research advocacy, organic chemistry, psychiatry and geophysics.

UC San Diego Leads Research that Earns Gordon Bell Special Prize

November 19, 2020

Computational Chemist Rommie Amaro, members of her lab win one of the most coveted awards in supercomputing for research related to COVID-19
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