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UC San Diego’s HPWREN Aids Firefighters in Chariot Fire

July 10, 2013

The high-speed data transmission network of the UC San Diego-based High-Performance Wireless and Research Education Network (HPWREN) is once again showing its utility as a public safety asset as firefighters battle the 7,000-acre Chariot Fire near Mount Laguna, east of San Diego.

NIST Seeks Private-Sector Input at Cybersecurity Framework Workshop

June 25, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has opened registration for its 3rd Cybersecurity Framework Workshop, to be held July 10-12, 2013, in San Diego, Calif.

SDSC GeoComputing Lab Named Winner of HPC Innovation Excellence Award by IDC

June 24, 2013

The High Performance GeoComputing Laboratory (HPGeoC) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), an organized research unit at the University of California, San Diego, was named a winner of the HPC Innovation Excellence Award by the International Data Corporation (IDC) for developing a highly-scalable computer code that promises to dramatically cut both research times and energy costs in simulating seismic hazards throughout California and elsewhere.

UC San Diego Researchers Get Access to Open Science Grid

June 18, 2013

UC San Diego and the Open Science Grid have announced a partnership under which campus researchers will have access to the OSG’s fabric of Distributed High-Throughput Computing capabilities.

SDSC’s Gordon Supercomputer: Parsing Genes, Proteins, and Big Bio Data

June 17, 2013

Gordon, the newest high-performance supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of San Diego, California, has proven to be a boon to biologists interested in rapidly sifting through an ever-expanding amount of data.

UC San Diego Launches New Research Computing Program

June 10, 2013

The University of California, San Diego has deployed a new high-performance research computing system called the Triton Shared Computing Cluster, or TSCC, serving researchers at UC San Diego and any of the other UC campuses as well as external academic, non-profit, and corporate users.

SDSC’s CIPRES Science Gateway Receives $1.5 Million National Science Foundation Award

May 23, 2013

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego has received a $1.5 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to make access to supercomputing resources simpler and more flexible for phylogenetics researchers.

XSEDE13 Conference to Devote Full Day to Biosciences

May 9, 2013

A panel of distinguished experts will discuss the role of computation and data analytics in supporting discovery throughout the biological sciences when XSEDE13 – the annual conference focusing on computer science, education, outreach, software, and technology – is held July 22-25 in San Diego.

SDSC Assists in Generating Clean Tech Breakthrough

May 7, 2013

Using the Trestles supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, chemists at the University of South Florida (USF) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have discovered a more efficient, less expensive, and reusable material for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and separation than is currently used to prevent the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere.

SDSC Hosts First Annual Industry Partners Research Review

April 16, 2013

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego will host its first annual research review for current and prospective industrial partners and affiliates as part of a broader strategy to foster increased collaborations that may benefit from the center’s extensive research capabilities.
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