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SDSC, UC Santa Cruz to Host Summer School on Astroinformatics

March 1, 2012

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, in conjunction with the University of California’s High-Performance AstroComputing Center (UC-HiPACC), will host a two-week long summer school designed to help the next generation of astronomers manage the ever-increasing amount of data generated by new instruments, digital sky surveys, and simulations.

SDSC’s East Building Receives LEED Gold Certification

January 23, 2012

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded a LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) Gold certification for its SDSC East building expansion.

DOE Awards Record Supercomputing Time to UC San Diego, SDSC Researchers

January 12, 2012

Scientists from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and other areas of the University of California, San Diego, conducting research in physics, computer science, earth science, and engineering, together were awarded an all-time high of more than a quarter billion hours in supercomputing processor time by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the agency’s 2012 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.

SDSC’s Triton Resource Helps “Track” How Kinesin Molecules Move

December 6, 2011

Researchers at UC San Diego’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, in collaboration with several universities in the U.S., United Kingdom, and Poland, have developed a new picture of how kinesin molecules move along microtubules, or tiny biological train tracks – and how they sometimes come to a halt, causing diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

SDSC Researcher Amarnath Gupta Named an ACM Distinguished Scientist

December 1, 2011

Amarnath Gupta, a researcher with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been named a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.

SDSC’s Trestles Debuts on ‘Graph500’ List

November 16, 2011

Trestles, a new supercomputer using flash-based memory and launched earlier this year by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has made this year’s Graph500 list, a new ranking that measures how well supercomputers handle data-intensive challenges.

SDSC’s Gordon Ranks Among Top 50 Fastest Supercomputers in the World

November 14, 2011

Gordon, a unique data-intensive supercomputer using flash-based memory that will enter production in January at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, made its debut as the 48th fastest supercomputer in the world, according to the latest Top500 list.

Disconnect Between U.S. Wireless Demand and Infrastructure Capacity

October 26, 2011

A new report from the Global Information Industry Center at the University of California, San Diego examines the projected disconnect between U.S. wireless infrastructure capacity and consumer demand.

SDSC, Calit2 Awarded $1.4 Million NSF Grant for New Bioinformatics Tools

October 18, 2011

Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a three-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a Kepler Scientific Workflow System module. Researchers will develop new tools to help manage ever-growing data sets used in next-generation DNA sequencing.

Timing is Right for SDSC Cloud

October 5, 2011

Timing is Right for SDSC Cloud - New Storage System Supports NSF Data Policy
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