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Dear SDSC Collaborators, Partners and All Friends:
As the end of summer approaches, I am pleased to take a moment to highlight some of the outstanding work and accomplishments from within our community this quarter, and the opportunities the upcoming academic year brings.
The Societal Computing and Innovation Lab, led by Ilkay Altinas, recently launched the Wildfire Science and Technology Commons, which will serve as a public nexus to enable scientists, technology innovators and practitioners to work together to accelerate scalable wildfire solutions. Learn more about their efforts in the Wildfire Commons article.
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Rajesh Gupta, a distinguished computer scientist and seasoned academic leader, has been appointed dean of UC San Diego's School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences. As the name suggests, the school emphasizes fields that are fundamentally transforming contemporary society.
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Four billion people face severe potable water distress due to water pollution and a limited supply of freshwater reserves. Scientists used SDSC’s Expanse supercomputer to explore porous materials that would reduce the costs of one potential solution — seawater desalination.
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Using powerful supercomputer simulations, researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery about how blood flows through the tiniest new blood vessels in our bodies, findings that could revolutionize our understanding of everything from wound healing to cancer treatment.
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Researchers leveraging SDSC's Expanse supercomputer have achieved a significant breakthrough in understanding nanofiber materials that could revolutionize medical implants and lab-grown tissues by replicating how natural materials achieve both strength and flexibility.
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Before 3D printing was widely accessible, SDSC integrated rapid prototyping technology with scientific visualization to produce three-dimensional solid models from digital geometry data. A Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM) device was connected to the Internet, allowing remote users to create prototypes from laser-cut, laminated layers of paper or plastic.
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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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A team of UC San Diego researchers, led by Principal Investigator Ilkay Altintas, has deployed a groundbreaking new platform to advance science and technology that addresses wildland fire challenges in an era of more frequent and devastating megafires.
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Koji mold, has been used to produce staple foods like soy sauce and miso for thousands of years. Andreas Goetz worked on a project with several collaborators to understand how to use the fungus to solve a distinctly modern dilemma: global plastic pollution.
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Collegiate teams — including two from UC San Diego advised by Mary Thomas — used inexpensive single-board computers and other similarly simple hardware to create efficient, miniature supercomputing clusters and rank them based on their performance using industry-standard HPC benchmarks.
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The program, led by SDSC Education Manager Ange Mason, enabled more than 50 San Diego high school students to participate in year-round research projects with dedicated mentors throughout the UC San Diego campus.
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Supercharging Research: SDSC Summer Institutes
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With more than 40 participants, the Cyberinfrastruture-Enabled Machine Learning (CIML) Summer Institute program focused on teaching participants the best practices for effectively running machine learning and data science applications on advanced cyberinfrastructure and high-performance computing systems. View agenda and materials.
With the aim of engaging researchers lacking local HPC resources, the HPC & Data Summer Institute program hosted more than 45 attendees from academia and industry. In addition to attending interactive classes with hands-on tutorials on SDSC's Expanse HPC system, researchers were able to meet one-on-one with SDSC's experts to discuss in detail the best techniques for solving their specific scientific problems. View agenda and materials.
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The Societal Computing and Innovation Lab (SCIL) works directly with partners like Cal Fire, the North Lake Tahoe Fire District and California State Parks in the field. They recently joined burn boss colleagues from state and local fire departments in Tahoe, alongside UC Davis field data experts, to explore how BurnPro3D can best support their efforts.
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SDSC Innovators newsletter is published six times a year, every two months.
To submit information to be included in the next edition, please send details to kbruch@ucsd.edu.
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