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A Quantum Leap for Molecular Simulations on GPUs

June 3, 2021

Developing improved materials for things such as energy storage and drug discovery is of interest to researchers and society alike. Quantum mechanics is the basis for molecular and materials scientists who develop these useful, futuristic products.

Interim Director Named for San Diego Supercomputer Center

May 25, 2021

Long-time Director Michael Norman is stepping down and SDSC’s Distributed High-Throughput Computing Lead and Physics Professor Frank Würthwein is stepping into the role until a new permanent director is named.

A Match Made in … the Cloud

May 10, 2021

The San Diego Supercomputer Center and CERN team up and leverage an alliance with Strategic Blue, a UK-based Fintech company that helps organizations optimize procurement of cloud services.

Award-Winning SeedMeLab Grows with New Software-as-a-Service

April 21, 2021

With hundreds of active installations and a new award, SeedMeLab is launching its new Software-as-a-Service to benefit researchers.

San Diego Supercomputer Center, Core Scientific Form New Partnership

April 16, 2021

SDSC’s Expanse platform via Core Scientific’s Plexus software stack offers users a consumption-based, high-performance computing model that solves for on-premise infrastructure and can run HPC workloads in supercomputer centers as well as in any of the major public cloud providers.

IceCube Neutrino Observatory Detects New High-Energy Particle

April 15, 2021

In December 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light. Deep inside the ice sheet at the South Pole, it smashed into an electron and produced a particle that quickly decayed into a shower of secondary particles.

Supercomputers Boost Understanding of Distance between Jupiter and Saturn

April 13, 2021

The solar system’s two largest planets, Jupiter and Saturn, received worldwide publicity on December 21, 2020, as they glided closer than they’ve been since 1623. Visible around the globe, “The Great Conjunction” placed the two planets only 0.1 degree apart from one another.

San Diego Supercomputer Center Teams Up with Habana to Power Voyager

April 9, 2021

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, a leader and pioneer in high-performance and data-intensive computing, has selected the Intel company’s Habana Labs artificial intelligence training and inference accelerators to provide high-performance, high-efficiency AI compute for its

Supercomputers Help Accelerate Alzheimer’s Research

March 16, 2021

Since 2009, Daniel Tward and his collaborators at UCLA and Johns Hopkins University have analyzed more than 47,000 images of human brains via MRI Cloud—a gateway created to collect and share quantitative information from human brain images, including subtle changes in shape and cortical thickness.

‘Comet’ Illustrates the Mechanical Process of Cancer Growth

March 2, 2021

Tissues which consist largely of collagen were the focus of a recent collaborative study by a team from Stanford University and Purdue University. To accomplish their work, they used the Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego.
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