News Archive - Environment

Biologists Untangle Growth and Defense in Maize, Define Key Antibiotic Pathways

Studying natural defenses in maize, a staple of diets around the world, UC San Diego biologists describe how they combined an array of scientific approaches to clearly define six genes that encode enzymes responsible for the production of key maize antibiotics known to control disease resistance.

Supercomputer Simulations Help Optimize Floating Wind Farms

Researchers used SDSC's Comet supercomputer to better understand the wake effects of large floating wind farm arrays, which have become more prevalent in recent years.

NSF Awards SDSC and Partners $5.9 Million to Host EarthCube Office

The NSF has awarded SDSC and its partners a three-year, $5.9 million grant to host the EarthCube Office as part of the ongoing NSF-funded EarthCube program.

Supercomputers Pave the Way for New Machine Learning Approach

Researchers at SDSC, LANL, and UNC Chapel Hill have developed a machine learning approach called transfer learning that lets them model novel materials by learning from data collected about millions of other compounds.

Biologists Pioneer First Method to Decode Gene Expression

Biologists have developed the first system for determining gene expression based on machine learning. Considered a type of Rosetta Stone, the new method leverages algorithms trained on a set of known plant genes. The method carries implications across biology, from drug discovery to plant breeding.

UC San Diego Named 7th Among U.S. Public Universities

The University of California San Diego has been ranked 7th among public U.S. universities by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR).

SDSC Awarded NSF Grant for Triton Shared Computing Cluster Upgrade

The NSF has awarded SDSC a two-year grant worth almost $400,000 to deploy a new system called CC* Compute: Triton Stratus as an enhancement to the existing Triton Shared Computing Cluster (TSCC) campus High-Performance Computing (HPC) platform.

NSF Awards $10 Million to SDSC to Deploy ‘Expanse’ Supercomputer

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) worth $10 million to deploy Expanse, a new supercomputer designed to advance research that is increasingly dependent upon heterogeneous and distributed resources.

SDSC’s Sherlock Division Debuts Innovation Accelerator Platforms

SDSC's Sherlock Division at SDSC) has announced the launch of Innovation Accelerator Platforms within its Sherlock Cloud infrastructure and its newest offering, Vyloc Cloud.

Using Machine Learning to Create More Capable Capacitors

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are using supercomputers and machine learning techniques to find ways to build more capable capacitors that store more energy.