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SDSC, UCSD Focus on Sustainable Computer Science Courses

May 27, 2015

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant valued at almost $1 million to help three of the region’s school districts develop model “villages” for introducing and sustaining up-to-date computer science courses in their curriculum.

University of Arkansas Acquires SDSC’s Trestles Supercomputer

May 5, 2015

The National Science Foundation and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, have agreed to transfer ownership of its Trestles supercomputer cluster to the Arkansas High Performance Computing Center.

SDSC’s ‘Comet’ Supercomputer Enters Early Operations Phase

April 30, 2015

Comet, a new petascale supercomputer designed to transform advanced scientific computing by expanding access and capacity among traditional as well as non-traditional research domains, has transitioned into an early operations phase at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego.

SDSC Helps Professionals ‘Connect the Dots’ in Graph Analytics

April 2, 2015

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) will begin addressing a rapidly emerging area of interest in data science by holding its first Graph Analytics “boot camp” on Thursday, April 23rd, at its location on the UC San Diego campus in La Jolla, California.

SDSC Researchers Win NVIDIA’s 2015 Global Impact Award

March 17, 2015

Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, are the recipient of NVIDIA’s 2015 Global Impact Award for their collaborative work in developing an accelerated GPU (graphics processing unit) code to simulate earthquake physics necessary for safer building design.

Researchers Rethink How Our Feathered Friends Evolved

March 16, 2015

A recently published global genome study that used the data-intensive Gordon supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer at the University of California, San Diego, has researchers rethinking how avian lineages diverged after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

SDSC’s CAIDA Group to Explore the Internet’s “Uncharted Territory”

March 9, 2015

The Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center has been awarded $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to measure and quantify the changing nature of the Internet’s topology and what it means for the Internet’s future in terms of design, operations, scientific study, and public policy.

SDSC Announces 2015 Summer Internships for High School Students

March 9, 2015

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has announced internship opportunities for its 2015 Research Experience for High School Students (REHS) summer program, which places students into multidisciplinary research teams to help them gain experience in selected areas of computational research.

San Diego Supercomputer Center Partners with Research Data Alliance for Plenary

March 3, 2015

Industry leaders and data professionals from throughout the world will convene March 8-11 in San Diego for the Research Data Alliance’s (RDA) Fifth Plenary Meeting to discuss ways to foster an open environment of data sharing and exchange.

UC San Diego/SDSC Study Advances Brain Cancer Research

February 11, 2015

Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Moores Cancer Center, and Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego, have shown for the first time a pyramid hierarchical network of “coherent gene modules” that regulate glioblastoma genes, involved in a highly aggressive form of brain cancer.
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