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Unearthing Mysteries of the Maya

April 11, 2019

…Tunnels UC San Diego computer science students are venturing into Maya tunnels in Guatemala, and at home in San Diego, to bring these ancient buried sites to virtual life. Using backpacks full of custom hardware in the field and cutting-edge virtual reality (VR) technology back on campus, these student adventurers…

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.

Supercomputer Models Describe Chloride’s Role in Corrosion

January 5, 2021

Simulations conducted using the Comet supercomputer at UC San Diego’s San Diego Supercomputer Center provide new insights on how chloride corrodes structural metals, causing severe economic and environmental impacts.

Quantum Material Exhibits “Non-Local” Behavior That Mimics Brain Function

August 7, 2023

Creating brain-like computers with minimal energy requirements would revolutionize nearly every aspect of modern life. Funded by the Department of Energy, Q-MEEN-C — a nationwide consortium led by the University of California San Diego — has been at the forefront of this research.

How to Run a Password Update Campaign Efficiently and With Minimal IT Costs

February 1, 2024

Email notifications to update passwords potentially yielded diminishing returns after three messages. They also found that a prompt to update passwords while users were trying to log in was effective for those who had ignored email reminders.

Fighting Climate Change Isn’t an Automatic Win for Environmental Justice

June 19, 2023

New legislation such as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) explicitly identifies the elimination of these historical environmental inequities as a goal the U.S. hopes to advance in the process of tackling climate change, but the study from researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scrip

SDSC Comet and Machine Learning Simulates H2O with “Unprecedented Accuracy”

June 13, 2018

…has used machine learning techniques to develop models for simulations of water with “unprecedented accuracy.” Published online in The Journal of Chemical Physics, the research demonstrates how popular ML techniques can be used to construct predictive molecular models based on quantum mechanical reference data.

New Simulation Illuminates Origin of the Brightest Galaxies

September 23, 2015

A simulation that traced the evolution of enormous, bright galaxies over the course of several billion years has illuminated the possible origins of some of the most extreme objects in the universe.

UC San Diego Leads Research that Earns Gordon Bell Special Prize

November 19, 2020

Computational Chemist Rommie Amaro, members of her lab win one of the most coveted awards in supercomputing for research related to COVID-19

SDSC Joins the Intel Parallel Computing Centers Program

September 9, 2014

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, is working with semiconductor chipmaker Intel Corporation to further optimize research software to improve the parallelism, efficiency, and scalability of widely used molecular and neurological simulation technologies.

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