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SDSC Invites Researches to Apply for Access to Gordon Supercomputer

The San Diego Supercomputer Center is seeking innovative applications for the next round of user allocations on its data-intensive Gordon supercomputer, which went into operation earlier this year.

September 14, 2012General, Science and Engineering, SDSC

Popularity versus Similarity: A Balance that Predicts Network Growth

Do you know who Michael Jackson or George Washington was? You most likely do: they are what we call “household names” because these individuals were so ubiquitous. But what about Giuseppe Tartini or John Bachar?

September 12, 2012General, Science and Engineering, SDSC

SDSC Awarded NSF Grant to Facilitate Sharing and Streaming of Scientific Visualizations

The San Diego Supercomputer Center has been awarded a three-year, $810,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a resource that lets researchers seamlessly share and stream scientific visualizations on a variety of platforms, including mobile devices.

September 10, 2012General, Science and Engineering, SDSC

SDSC Lead Institution on NSF Grant for Science Gateways Institute

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego is the lead institution on a National Science Foundation planning grant for a Science Gateway Institute that would offer a complete range of services aimed at connecting numerous individual groups developing domain-specific, user-friendly, Web-based portals and tools that enable scientific research.

August 23, 2012Health, Science and Engineering, SDSC

Researchers Reveal Behaviors of the Tiniest Water Droplets

A new study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and Emory University has uncovered fundamental details about the hexamer structures that make up the tiniest droplets of water, the key component of life – and one that scientists still don’t fully understand.

August 15, 2012Health, Science and Engineering, SDSC

UC San Diego, Yale Awarded Collaborative NSF Grant for Neuroscience Gateway

The University of California, at San Diego and Yale University have been awarded a collaborative grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a Neuroscience Gateway (NSG) that gives neuroscientists broadened access to essential high-performance computing (HPC) and storage resources.

August 08, 2012Health, Science and Engineering, SDSC

UC San Diego Team Aims to Broaden Researcher Access to Protein Simulation

Using just an upgraded desktop computer equipped with a relatively inexpensive graphics processing card, a team of computer scientists and biochemists at the University of California, San Diego, has developed advanced GPU accelerated software and demonstrated for the first time that this approach can sample biological events that occur on the millisecond timescale.

August 06, 2012Health, Science and Engineering, SDSC

SDSC Mourns the Loss of Allan Snavely

Dr. Allan Snavely, a widely recognized expert in high-performance computing whose innovative thinking led to the development of the Gordon supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego, died of an apparent heart attack on Saturday, July 14. He was 49.

July 16, 2012Health, Science and Engineering, SDSC

SDSC’s CIPRES Science Gateway Clarifies Branches in Evolution’s ‘Tree of Life’

A new Web resource developed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego is helping thousands of researchers worldwide unravel the enigmas of phylogenetics, the study of evolutionary relationships among virtually every species on the planet.

July 03, 2012Health, Science and Engineering, SDSC

ICCS 2012 Workshop Highlights Advances in Kepler Scientific Workflows

A first-time workshop highlighting the latest advances in the Kepler Scientific Workflow System brought together researchers and computational scientists to discuss a wide array of innovative uses for the software application, ranging from data curation of natural science collections to facilitating nuclear fusion computations.

June 28, 2012Health, Science and Engineering, SDSC

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