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SDSC Participates in CalWater Extreme Precipitation Project

February 11, 2015

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the University of California, San Diego, is providing data management, visualization and modeling resources, and expertise to a two-month wintertime field campaign to study “atmospheric rivers” and particles of dust, smoke, sea spray, and organic materials called aerosols along the western U.S. coast to better understand variability in the region’s water supply, flood and drought hazards, infrastructure requirements, and optimal reservoir operations.

UC San Diego, UC San Francisco Launch New Cancer Cell Mapping Initiative

January 29, 2015

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and University of California, San Francisco, with support from a diverse team of collaborators, have launched an ambitious new project – dubbed the Cancer Cell Map Initiative or CCMI – to determine how all of the components of a cancer cell interact.

SDSC Announces International Chemistry Collaboration

January 26, 2015

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego is a partner in a new international collaboration to develop computational models and software for simulations of bifunctional catalysis, which is of high relevance for biomass conversion to liquid fuels and raw materials used in the chemical industry.

UC San Diego Physicist Frank Würthwein Joins SDSC

January 21, 2015

University of California, San Diego Professor Frank Würthwein, an expert in high-energy particle physics and advanced computation, has joined the university’s San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) to help implement a high-capacity data cyberinfrastructure across all UC campuses.

SDSC Announces UC Graduate Summer Fellowship Program

January 14, 2015

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has announced its inaugural UC Graduate Student Summer Fellowship program, providing opportunities for graduate students throughout the University of California system to learn about SDSC’s expertise and utilize the Center’s wide range of resources to advance their own research.

New Wind-Farm Computer Simulations Unlock Increased Power Generation

January 5, 2015

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) have developed high-resolution computer simulations, done on the Trestles supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, that take into account how the air flows within and around a wind-farm in unprecedented detail.

Bess Marcus, PhD, Appointed Senior Associate Dean for Public Health at UC San Diego

November 13, 2014

Bess Marcus, PhD, has been appointed senior associate dean for Public Health with the UC San Diego School of Medicine.

New Dean of Clinical Affairs and CEO for Faculty Practice at UC San Diego

November 13, 2014

Thomas Moore, MD has been named dean of Clinical Affairs and CEO for Faculty Practice at UC San Diego Health Sciences.

SDSC to Start Loading the Nodes for its New “Comet” Supercomputer

November 13, 2014

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, will soon be taking shape at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego.

SDSC’s Chaitan Baru Named CISE Data Science Advisor at NSF

October 29, 2014

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named Chaitan Baru, a Distinguished Scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, Senior Advisor for Data Science in the agency’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE).
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