From Game-changing Superconductors to Earlier Smoke Detection |
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Dear SDSC Staff, Collaborators, Partners and All Friends:
Here we are again, at the dawn of a new academic year, eager to see what the days ahead may bring. In many ways the summer months have been customary with travel, annual conferences, and casual gatherings, but one event in particular stands out to me as extraordinary. That was our own Executive Team Retreat.
Held at the inspiring setting of Scripps Seaside Forum earlier this month, the retreat included discussion and development of our strategic plans for SDSC over the next five years. While we examined priorities and proposed initiatives, with some healthy discussion and disagreement in between, it was remarkable to me that when the full team was split into two separate groups to complete an exercise around top-level goal setting, the groups’ proposed goals were virtually identical! I am quite proud of this outcome and the team around me: Ilkay Altintas, Brian Balderston, Sandeep Chandra, Cynthia Dillon, Christine Kirkpatrick, Fritz Leader, Amit Majumdar, Shawn Strande and Michael Zentner. Special thanks to Executive Consultant Anke Kamrath and the Strategic Planning Facilitation team, Esther Coit, from Patera Design, and Laura Araujo, for their key roles in the process. The strategic planning process is far from finished, as we will engage the entire center between now and late October to turn high-level goals into actions for which progress is measurable.
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The search for superconductors that can function at room temperature has been ongoing for roughly a century, but research has sped up dramatically in the last decade because of advances in machine learning using supercomputers such as Expanse.
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The e-Decision Tree has become a “go-to” online tool for school officials who have needed to quickly generate authoritative guidelines for parents and for students and staff infected or exposed to the virus.
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The NSDF multi-federation catalog has grown to more than 1.5 billion records, with nearly 70 repositories ranging from geosciences databases to NASA imagery datasets.
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Convection produces the majestic clouds we see in the sky, but it can also develop into severe thunderstorms or hurricanes. Researchers used SDSC's Expanse to closely examine the role of convection in global energy distribution.
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SDSC’s Lead for HPC Training Mary Thomas, led a group of UC San Diego students who placed third in the contest hosted by SDSC in July. The competing teams were challenged to create the most efficient cluster using single board computers to perform complex tasks while remaining below the power and cost limits.
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At the recent International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, Christine Kirkpatrick, Research Data Services director at SDSC, participated in two Birds of a Feather (BoF) discussions about bridging the HPC Data Divide and democratizing data access and usability.
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UC Berkeley and UC San Diego provide computational resources to six California community colleges in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo and San Jose. UC Berkeley’s Vice Chancellor for Research Kathy Yelick is co-principal investigator for the SDSC-led CloudBank.
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Natalie Meyers, a professor of the practice at the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society at the University of Notre Dame, has recently been selected to serve as a computational and data science research specialist for SDSC's Research Data Services group. Her research focuses on FAIR data management, software preservation and sharing for model-driven research.
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Convergence Research Update |
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To showcase the technology’s impact in hazardous settings such as wildfire response and mitigation, the team recently completed a prescribed burn concept demonstration utilizing edge computing.
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Research experiments integrate detailed on-the-ground, real-time camera footage, satellite-based fire detections and weather data to provide a multimodal approach to the early detection of wildfires.
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The 2023 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC23) took place last month in Portland, Oregon. The conference theme was “Computing for the Common Good” and provided an array of engaging events for researchers to share their work with one another. The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego was represented by 23 researchers and staff – with paper presentations by several first authors including Amit Majumdar, Igor Sfiligoi and Mary Thomas.
“We were thrilled with how well everything went at PEARC23 as the program offered an outstanding collection of panels, BOFs, workshops, tutorials, posters, visualizations and paper sessions along with an exceptionally strong student program,” said PEARC23 General Chair Robert Sinkovits, SDSC's director of education and training. “We were also able to recruit engaging plenary speakers, including SDSC’s Ilkay Altıntaş, and a panel featuring nine National Science Foundation (NSF) program officers. To top things off, the Oregon Convention Center was an ideal venue for PEARC23, with welcoming open spaces for the technical program, networking events and exhibitors.”
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Early bird Registration ($450) available until Sept. 15, 2023. Listen and learn from featured speakers: Wendy Nilsen, NSF; Joe Palca, science writer who created the NPR Scicommers Program and Alex Wright, head of News UX at Google in New York.
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If you are a team member of a recently funded project seeking to financially sustain your work, or an early career professional wanting to learn about sustainable funding solutions, or a research professional working on your next funding proposal, then this might be of interest.
The Jumpstart Your Sustainability Plan is free and is offered virtually. The next Jumpstart mini-course will be Sept. 12-14, 2023. Apply before Sept. 8.
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Long-time members of the SDSC community Mark Miller and Mike Dwyer retired at the end of June 2023. Miller served as a PI for biology, the CIPRES science gateway and research (Education and Development Group). Dwyer served as a senior systems administrator and lead of SDSC’s WebDB services. They are and will continue to be greatly missed!
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APAN56 Conference: “AI and HPC: better Together”
August 24 – 25, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Paper submission deadline has passed.
AMD HPC User Forum Member Meeting
September 19 – 20
Save the Date: Performance Tuning (webinar)
Thursday, Sept. 21, 11am-12pm (PT)
More details coming soon. Check SDSC Events for updates.
Save the Date: GPU/CUDA Programming (webinar)
Thursday, Oct. 26, 11am-12pm (PT)
More details coming soon. Check SDSC Events for updates.
Science Gateways 2023 Annual Conference
Monday, Oct. 30 – Wednesday, Nov. 1, Pittsburgh, PA
Paper submission deadline has passed.
SC23 – Join SDSC in Denver!
November 12 – 17
Save the Date: Interactive Computing (webinar)
Thursday, Dec. 7, 11am-12pm (PT)
More details coming soon. Check SDSC Events for updates.
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| Artificial intelligence-powered technologies and innovations being developed and implemented at UC Diego could lead to the next developments in the “AI revolution.”
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UC San Diego's HDSI Director Rajesh Gupta says the emerging field of data science enables us to “see” things that have never before been visible and make connections never before possible.
For a full listing of news around campus, please visit UC San Diego Today.
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