Dear SDSC Collaborators, Partners and All Friends:
This new year is underway with momentum, and I feel very proud of the national, statewide and local impacts that SDSC continues producing after nearly 40 years. At the same time, within our university community there has been uncertainty, particularly around federal research funding. We are monitoring the various announcements and reports regularly as we continue working steadfastly toward our mission.
On the national scale, we are involved with a National Institutes of Health project called the Cloud Workspace Implementation Center (CWIC). It is a new center led by Texas Advanced Computing Center in collaboration with SDSC, Penn State University and Johns Hopkins University. Shava Smallen is SDSC’s PI on the project. There are more details available in this newsletter under “Around SDSC.”
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Researchers at UC San Diego, University of Florida and Arizona State University will leverage AI and multi-source remote sensing data to facilitate transformative research in forest sciences and ecology with a web-based cyberinfrastructure platform called OpenForest4D.
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SDSC compute resources will contribute to the work of a Sonoma State chemistry professor, who will use nearly $1M from the NSF to enhance ChemCompute, a free online platform for undergrads to perform advanced computational chemistry experiments.
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Using Expanse at SDSC, a University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez mechanical engineering professor shows how different types of waves change wind flows around offshore turbines and could optimize power generation in sea-based wind farms.
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Scientists and science communicators affiliated with SDSC and the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at UC Santa Cruz have developed EcoViz, an initiative focused on immersive technology and collaboration to address environmental challenges.
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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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This year’s 6NRP event marked another impactful year of the platform helping researchers, domain scientists, network and system administrators, and industry leaders unlock access to distributed campus-owned compute cloud and allied resources.
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CloudBank recently announced its leadership in cloud integration for the Cloud Workspace Implementation Center (CWIC)—a new center led by TACC in collaboration with SDSC, Penn State University and Johns Hopkins University. Read more about CWIC on the TACC website.
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SDSC has recently completed the merger of two of its established Centers of Excellence: Sherlock Regulated Data Management & Secure Cloud and Science Gateways & Research Software, now part of a new division called Stack Science.
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High-resolution 3D scans using lidar technology are helping scientists understand the devastating impacts of the January 2025 Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles County. Explore the interactive maps and data on OpenTopography to see how lidar is reshaping our understanding of wildfire impacts.
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A Mt. Carmel High School student’s collaborative study highlights complex factors of long COVID, sparking discussion around healthcare accessibility.
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SDSC Innovators newsletter is published six times a year, every two months.
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