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Supercomputer Simulations Help Combat Tuberculosis (TB) Granulomas

March 20, 2019

Researchers from the University of Michigan relied on supercomputers at UC San Diego and elsewhere to help them develop detailed models to better understand how TB spreads throughout the lungs.

UC San Diego Study Points to Virus-Related Acceleration in Some Cancers

March 14, 2019

A new paper by UC San Diego researchers hypothesizes a possible link between cancer-causing viruses.

SDSC Researchers Team with UNICEF for Liberian Schools Project

February 5, 2019

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has been working with researchers at SDSC as well as other parts of UC San Diego to determine the location of existing Liberian schools so they can provide them with resources and work with policy makers to plan future schools.

Supercomputer Simulations Reveal New Insight on Sea Fog Development

January 14, 2019

A recently published study by an international team of researchers has shed new light on how and why a particular type of sea fog forms, using detailed supercomputer simulations to provide more accurate predictions of its occurrence and patterns to help reduce the number of maritime mishaps.

SDSC’s ‘Trestles’ Supercomputer Still Going Strong Three+ Years Later

December 12, 2018

The Trestles supercomputer, which was acquired more than three years ago by the Arkansas High Performance Computing Center (AHPCC) at the University of Arkansas after entering service at the San Diego Supercomputer Center in 2011, is still going strong.

UC San Diego-Led Study Predicts Novel Approach to Battling Influenza

November 27, 2018

A new study by researchers from several universities including UC San Diego, published earlier this month in ACS Central Science, suggests a novel approach to fighting the sometimes deadly influenza virus.

SDSC Receives HPCwire Awards for Top HPC Achievement, Life Sciences

November 14, 2018

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego has received two key HPCwire annual awards for 2018, recognizing the use of its Comet supercomputer in assisting scientists in finding the first evidence of a source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos, and for Comet’s role in a recent autism study led by a team of researchers at the university’s School of Medicine.

SDSC Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay Altintas Named an HDSI Fellow

October 30, 2018

San Diego Supercomputer Center’s Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay Altintas has been named a Fellow of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) at the University of California San Diego for her role in the stewardship of HDSI cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources and services, effective with the fall 2018 term.

SDSC’s Health CI Division, University of Rhode Island Announce Data Protection Agreement

October 16, 2018

The Health Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Division of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego has partnered with the University of Rhode Island (URI) to provide an environment to protect a variety of data for researchers and PIs across the URI campus.

SDSC Awarded a Three-Year NSF Grant for Data Reproducibility Research

August 29, 2018

Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), an Organized Research Unit of UC San Diego, have been awarded a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant worth more than $818,000 to design and develop cyberinfrastructure that allows researchers to efficiently share information about their scientific data and securely verify its authenticity while preserving provenance and lineage information.
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