Dear SDSC Collaborators, Partners and All Friends:
As the summer season approaches, I have been reflecting on the incredible momentum we have built over the first half of the year. I’m especially proud of how our team continues to bring SDSC’s commitment to translational research to life — we are a national leader in driving cutting-edge science that delivers meaningful societal impact.
One of the latest examples of this is our new Societal Computing and Innovation Lab (SCIL), which launched last month and houses the renowned WIFIRE program. Created by our Chief Data Science Officer and CICORE Director Ilkay Altintas, SCIL was developed to drive innovation around society’s most pressing problems — leveraging the forefront of science and technology to deliver scalable solutions to complex challenges. SCIL created a methodological foundation built on lessons learned and composable system innovations from nearly two decades of use-inspired research in areas like wildfires, precision medicine and natural disaster mitigation that can now be applied to a wide range of society’s most pressing problems. You can read more about this new resource at SDSC in the News Highlights section below.
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SDSC has installed the DGX B200 – one of the world’s most advanced platform for AI computing – in one of its data center racks. The system’s key traits include: extreme speed, large memory, AI-ready design and
plug-and-play for researchers.
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The new lab, which held its official launch event last month, was created to pioneer innovation pathways to address complex societal challenges. At the heart of its translational approach is a commitment to moving from use-inspired problems to scalable, real-world solutions.
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A multi-institutional team used Expanse to better understand how to control magnetism at the atomic level using electric fields. Their work has the potential to shape the future of computing and data storage.
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With a grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the National Science Foundation, a research team will use SDSC’s Expanse supercomputer to better understand how artificial intelligence can advance U.S. aquaculture development.
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Twenty years ago, SDSC data experts collaborated with the American Red Cross to help locate missing loved ones and reunite families in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, leading to the creation of the “Safe and Well” website. Image credit: American Red Cross.
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This year marks four decades of SDSC’s leadership in providing HPC, data science and cyberinfrastructure expertise to the national research community. In upcoming issues of Innovators, we will share highlights from the past 40 years. Our congratulations go to the U.S. National Science Foundation on its 75th anniversary this year, and our close affiliate HPWREN on its 25th.
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Each year, SDSC recognizes an individual whose research contributions over the years straddle both cyberinfrastructure technology and science. The Pi Person of the Year Award, represented by the Pi symbol (∏), was first bestowed to an SDSC researcher in 2013. This year’s recipient is CICORE Senior Research Scientist Amarnath Gupta.
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Computational Data Scientist Mary Thomas has been participating in a U.S. multi-institutional initiative that streamlines discovery and collaboration through an innovative cyber training catalog. The effort enhances access to and sharing of cyber training resources and more.
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Sherlock, a specialized IT services provider at SDSC, has reached a significant milestone by successfully completing a Service Organization Control audit, demonstrating its commitment to data protection and operational integrity.
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Director of SDSC’s Research Data Services Division Christine Kirkpatrick recently participated in the AI Compute Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. Hosted by The Economist, the summit provided experts across sectors a chance to share best practices, lessons learned and plans to meet AI energy needs.
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A team of international scientists has embarked on a massive project to map the chemical history of our Milky Way galaxy and its neighbors using a powerful new instrument called the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) – with the help of SDSC’s Expanse system.
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The University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR), is inviting applications for a UC Cooperative Extension Specialist at the Assistant rank. The position, housed at SDSC, is connected to UC ANR’s statewide network through its Office of Innovation.
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The National Data Platform (NDP), a SCIL program, is a national-scale pilot project focused on providing a service ecosystem to make scientific data open, accessible and usable across a broad range of communities. Read a recent article about how it has been used for astronomical data.
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Researchers at the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences, including SDSC's Subhasis Dasgupta, Ilkay Altintas and Amarnath Gupta, along with HDSI's Benjamin Smarr found that women’s physical activity levels are less variable than men’s. What’s more, women’s hormonal cycles did not have a noticeable impact on physical activity levels. Read the full article.
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How Trustworthy is AI?
UC San Diego faculty David Danks and Lily Weng, professors at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, part of the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences, share their thoughts about the upcoming challenges, opportunities and limitations of artificial intelligence.
New Mathematical Framework Better Illustrates Complex Data Patterns
Math experts at UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute have unveiled a novel approach to hierarchical clustering – a theoretical framework that could transform how scientists analyze and understand complex data sets across multiple fields.
For a full listing of news around campus, please visit UC San Diego Today.
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