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Dear SDSC Collaborators, Partners and All Friends:
As we begin 2025’s second quarter, there are no signs of the momentum I discussed in my last message slowing down. So sit back, buckle up and board this ride through the latest examples of the impacts that SDSC has on our nation’s interests.
The first stop: the launch of the General Atomics and UC San Diego Fusion Data Science and Digital Engineering Center. This homegrown collaboration between GA and the university is designed to strengthen California’s leadership in fusion energy innovation. We will exercise our leadership via the high performance computing and cyberinfrastructure needed to fast-track fusion energy development, and fusion research and innovation in the state. Please read more about this in the article under News Highlights.
Secondly, I want to call your attention to the $20 million grant SDSC received as part of the CloudBank 2 project to provide commercial cloud resources to the nation’s science and engineering researchers and educators.
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SDSC’s Shava Smallen will lead CloudBank 2 in collaboration with Information Technology Services Division at UC San Diego; the University of Washington’s eScience Institute; and the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society to support hundreds of national research projects by providing access to increased commercial cloud services.
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The WIFIRE program, a unit within SDSC’s Societal Computing and Innovation Lab (SCIL), informs responders with real-time models of how a wildfire will spread by creating predictive maps out of data points around wind, topography, temperature and state of foliage in terms of fuel. The WIFIRE team applied its expertise to make a difference during the recent LA fires.
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The new center underscores the strategic importance of a series of collaborative fusion research programs between General Atomics and UC San Diego at the interface of fusion and data science. SDSC will play a significant role in helping to build cyberinfrastructure for fusion engineering as a public-private partnership with federal, state and industry investments.
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The groundbreaking discovery published in Nature Immunology offers new opportunities to enhance cancer immunotherapy. Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Immunology recently used the Expanse supercomputer at SDSC to better understand how cancer tumors react when the immune system is used to combat them.
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Ten years ago, with a U.S. NSF grant totaling nearly $24M, SDSC launched Comet, a petascale supercomputer designed to transform advanced scientific computing by expanding access and capacity to thousands of users among traditional and non-traditional research domains.
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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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Rick Wagner’s election to Project Jupyter’s Executive Council highlights UC San Diego's significant role in the global open-source, data science and AI communities, according to SDSC Director Frank Würthwein.
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Research Data Services Director Christine Kirkpatrick has co-authored a new book, “The Consortia Century: Aligning for Impact,” an examination of how multi-stakeholder consortia shape the way organizations collaborate.
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By leveraging AI using the Expanse system at SDSC, researchers at UC San Diego have developed advanced deep learning techniques that could revolutionize treatment planning for breast cancer radiotherapy.
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SDSC has taken the lead on an effort to contribute a new component of the ecosystem of FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reproducible) data services and tools using a system called Research Activity Identifier (RAiD).
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A new study by San Diego State University researchers using Expanse at SDSC has revealed that irrigation, a crucial part of farming in the Imperial Valley, can both help and hurt workers’ exposure to heat stress.
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A study using NSF ACCESS allocations on Expanse at SDSC has produced compelling evidence that at supercooled temperatures and high pressures, water can exist in two distinct and unique liquid states.
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SCIDS’ online Master of Data Science (MDS) program offers flexible learning in data science.
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