March 30, 2017
March 30, 2017 —
This year’s week-long “Summer Institute” workshop held by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) will focus on a wide range of introductory-to-intermediate topics in high-performance computing (HPC) and data science for researchers in academia and industry, especially those in domains that have not traditionally used HPC resources.
March 14, 2017
March 14, 2017 —
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego and the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute in New York have reached an agreement under which the majority of SDSC’s data-intensive Gordon supercomputer will be used by Simons for ongoing research following completion of the system’s tenure as a National Science Foundation (NSF) resource on March 31.
March 7, 2017
March 7, 2017 —
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have been awarded a NASA ACCESS grant to develop a cyberinfrastructure platform for discovery, access, and visualization of data from NASA’s ICESat and upcoming ICESat-2 laser altimeter missions.
March 6, 2017
March 6, 2017 —
Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have developed a new seismic software package with Intel Corporation that has enabled the fastest seismic simulation to-date, as the two organizations collaborate on ways to better predict ground motions to save lives and minimize property damage.
February 2, 2017
February 2, 2017 —
Comet, the petascale supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), an Organized Research Unit of UC San Diego, has easily surpassed its target of serving at least 10,000 researchers across a diverse range of science disciplines, from astrophysics to redrawing the “tree of life”.
December 20, 2016
December 20, 2016 —
KC Claffy, principal investigator and founding director of the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), has been named to the second annual “10 Women in Networking/Communications That You Should Know” list.
November 17, 2016
November 17, 2016 —
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego has inaugurated a new life sciences computing initiative focused on improving the performance of bioinformatics applications and associated analysis pipelines on current and future advanced computing systems.
November 14, 2016
November 14, 2016 —
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego is a recipient of two HPCwire ‘Top Supercomputing Achievement’ awards for 2016, recognizing the use of its high-performance Comet supercomputer to help verify Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves.
November 14, 2016
November 14, 2016 —
The National Data Service (NDS) – a U.S. consortium focused on helping scientists and researchers find, reuse, and publish data – has named Christine Kirkpatrick as its first executive director. Kirkpatrick is Division Director for IT Systems & Services at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego.
November 7, 2016
November 7, 2016 —
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego will host a node in the Pacific Research Platform at this year’s International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC16), in Salt Lake City, Utah November 14-17. The aim is to achieve large data transfers over long-distance networks to the limits possible using single personal computers of the type that researchers may have in their labs in the near future.
