Dear SDSC Staff, Collaborators, Partners and All Friends:
We are in the home stretch of this academic year and, as usual, I am not at a loss for news to share. My first piece of news this time is that the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced its contribution of $5 million toward Cosmos, SDSC’s new computing system that features AMD’s MI300A accelerated processing unit (APU)—the first data-center-class APU ever released, according to the project team, which is led by SDSC’s User Support Lead Mahidhar Tatineni and Co-PIs Subhashini Sivagnanam, Andreas Goetz, Igor Sfiligoi and Christopher Irving. Cosmos is our third Cat-II system after Voyager and PNRP, but it is unique in that its architecture is based on shared memory between CPU and GPU. This will accelerate the use of GPUs by community software packages. There will be more information to come about this new system, so please visit our website from time to time and look for future newsletter issues.
Ironically, or perhaps per the law of universal balance, as we bring Cosmos into orbit at SDSC, we retire Comet. First operational in 2015, Comet has been a petascale supercomputer designed to transform advanced scientific computing by expanding access and capacity among traditional as well as non-traditional research domains...
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The NSF and the Department of Energy announced NAIRR’s first 35 projects and opened an additional opportunity for researchers and educators to apply for access to resources that support AI research. SDSC is one of the resource providers.
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As an alternative to lithium, scientists have turned their attention to earth-abundant and cost-effective multivalent metals, but a major challenge lies in finding suitable materials to host these multivalent ions in battery systems.
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In partnership with Purdue University, SDSC helps to develop new “simtools” that are FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable)-minded and represent a new approach to science workflows and data, from a web browser.
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Plastic products are challenging to dispose of responsibly, creating serious threats to ecosystems and human health. Supercomputer models offer promising solutions by breaking them down to basic building blocks.
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A trio of SDSC leaders—Ilya Zaslavsky, member of the CICORE Division and project PI; Christine Kirkpatrick, Research Data Services Division director and Ashley Atkins, chief of staff—are working to better understand groundwater dynamics and solve challenges around accurate assessment in sensitive areas worldwide. Researchers from six countries—the U.S., Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia—are teaming up to address this persistent global challenge.
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SDSC’s Andrea Zonca oversees the development of a software package known as Python Sky Model, or PySM, which serves as a catalyst for his team of experts to implement accurate models of galactic and extra-galactic emission and share them with the rest of the scientific community. The observatory is located in the remote, high-altitude Atacama Desert of Chile, where it investigates the origins of the universe by measuring the first electromagnetic radiation ever emitted after the Big Bang.
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Amarnath Gupta, a leading computer and research scientist and member of the CICORE Division at SDSC, was recently interviewed by veteran KPBS Journalist Thomas Fudge for a video news segment that discussed the NOURISH project (featured in the April 2024 issue of Innovators). The project team is building an app to help connect small business owners with resources to optimize the availability of fresh and healthy sustenance in food desert communities. NOURISH is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation through its Convergence Accelerator Program.
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CICORE Division Director Ilkay Altintas and Convergence Research (CORE) Institute Director Zaira Razu recently welcomed 28 fellows to UC San Diego. The fellows participated in a guided process to define a use-inspired research agenda for innovative solutions around this year’s theme of “Leveraging Data and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Regional Food Systems.” Invited speakers included Chaitan Baru (NSF), Laura Schmidt (UCSF), Amarnath Gupta (UCSD), Tim Galarneau (UCSC) and Melissa Floca (UCSD).
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As a member of the Director’s Office at SDSC, Chief of Staff Ashley Atkins provides support for and offers guidance on developing the strategic direction of the center and manages day-to-day operations needed to achieve the center’s mission.
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WHPC@SDSC Co-Founders Claire Stirm and Subha Sivagnanam hosted the new group’s first in-person mixer at UC San Diego, coordinated by Avery Blas. The inaugural event for women-identified professionals, students and faculty offered an opportunity for the SDSC community and others to get acquainted in a relaxed setting.
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The SDSC Supercomputing Club (SCC) at UC San Diego organized and competed in the Single Board Cluster Competition again. This year’s challenge was for students to create a cluster out of single-socket computers for executing various benchmarks and scientific applications under strict guidelines.
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Summer 2024 SGX3 Internship Experience
June 2–August 3, Austin, TX
Turn Your Data Portal into a Science Gateway With Globus Compute Webinar
June 20, 12:00 to 1:00 PM (PT)
This event will be held remotely.
SGX3 Blueprint Factories Webinar
July 11, 12:00 to 1:00 PM (PT)
This event will be held remotely.
COMPLECS: Linux Tools for File Processing
July 18, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (PT)
This event will be held remotely.
Gateway Focus Week 2024
August 5–7, Austin, TX
Application deadline is July 12.
COMPLECS: HPC Security and Getting Help
August 15, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (PT)
This event will be held remotely.
COMPLECS: Parallel Computing Concepts
September 5, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (PT)
This event will be held remotely.
Gateways 2024: Annual Science Gateways and Cyberinfrastructure Conference
October 8–10, Bozeman, MT
Call for participation.
Poster and BYOP (Bring Your Own Portal) submissions deadline is July 29.
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In 2013, a team of researchers at SDSC and the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the UC San Diego developed a highly scalable computer code to dramatically cut both research times and energy costs in simulating seismic hazards throughout California and elsewhere. The team, led by Yifeng Cui, a computational scientist at SDSC and now a PI at Statewide California Earthquake Center, developed the scalable GPU accelerated code for use in earthquake engineering and disaster management through regional earthquake simulations at the petascale level. San Diego State University was also part of this collaborative effort in pushing the envelope toward extreme-scale earthquake computing.
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