January 24, 2019
…first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, first chief scientist of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the founding director of IGCC. IGCC, which is based at GPS, works across the UC system to address pressing and long-term international security concerns and policy challenges. “Herb York was about understanding what…
May 28, 2020
…Photo courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Making Matter Out of Light: High-Power Laser Simulations Point the Way A few minutes into the life of the universe, colliding emissions of light energy created the first particles of matter and antimatter. We are familiar with the reverse process—matter generating energy—in everything…
November 16, 2011
Trestles, a new supercomputer using flash-based memory and launched earlier this year by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has made this year’s Graph500 list, a new ranking that measures how well supercomputers handle data-intensive challenges.
January 12, 2012
Scientists from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and other areas of the University of California, San Diego, conducting research in physics, computer science, earth science, and engineering, together were awarded an all-time high of more than a quarter billion hours in supercomputing processor time by the U.S. Department of…
March 1, 2012
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, in conjunction with the University of California’s High-Performance AstroComputing Center (UC-HiPACC), will host a two-week long summer school designed to help the next generation of astronomers manage the ever-increasing amount of data generated by new instruments, digital…
April 23, 2012
Richard C. Atkinson, who served as chancellor of the University of California, San Diego for fifteen years, was barely four weeks into his tenure as president of the University of California system when the UC Regents voted to end affirmative action in August 1995.
June 5, 2012
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has completed the deployment of its Lustre-based Data Oasis parallel file system, with four petabytes (PB) of capacity and 100 gigabytes per second (GB/s), to handle the data-intensive needs of the center’s new Gordon supercomputer.
July 16, 2012
Dr. Allan Snavely, a widely recognized expert in high-performance computing whose innovative thinking led to the development of the Gordon supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego, died of an apparent heart attack on Saturday, July 14. He was 49.
July 18, 2012
Penrose Albright, an eminent authority on U.S. national security, will discuss the role of national laboratories in defense and technological innovation as part of the 2nd annual Herb York Memorial Lecture at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 18.
August 2, 2012
Tai Ming Cheung has been appointed director of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), a multi-campus research unit (MRU) located on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. IGCC focuses on security and nuclear proliferation and examines how policy affects the state of…
