Fusion, Earthquakes, Avocados & More |
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Dear SDSC Staff, Collaborators, Partners and All Friends:
I hope the summer months renewed your energy and excitement for what the autumn season may bring. We ushered in the fall season by hiring a Chief Technology Officer for SDSC. The inaugural position is held by Rick Wagner, who returned to SDSC October 2 after recently holding technology leadership roles at University of Chicago and UC San Diego ITS. As CTO, Rick will play a key role in the development of SDSC’s high-performance computing and data technology vision and roadmap, bringing together expertise across the center to drive technology innovation and its application to a wide range of research challenges. We are thrilled to welcome him back to SDSC, and I invite you to read more about his appointment in the article about him featured below in the Researcher Spotlight section.
Many of you may be aware of SDSC’s long and continuing connection to General Atomics. We recently entered a new venture together along with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Sapientai, and faculty in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at UC San Diego to support high-priority fusion research. With $7.4 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy we will all work together to develop a Fusion Data Platform (FDP) for advancing high-priority fusion research. You can read more about the project in a news article featured below under SDSC News Highlights.
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Molecular dynamic simulations on Expanse reveal atomic-level stress effects on boron carbide, a ceramic often used in body armor.
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| Researchers turned to a descendant variety of Hass—the world's most popular avocado—to explore the fruit’s evolutionary history through its genome.
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The team will develop the Fusion Data Platform to provide reproducible AI models for scientists to advance fusion research and support first-gen fusion energy power plants.
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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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As part of OpenTopography, SDSC’s Viswanath Nandigam along with colleagues has been selected to receive the American Geophysical Union’s inaugural Open Science Recognition Prize for outstanding work in advancing Open Science related to Earth and space science and its global impact.
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SDSC has hired Rick Wagner as its Chief Technology Officer. He will play a key role in the development of SDSC’s high-performance computing and data technology vision and roadmap, bringing together expertise across the center to drive technology innovation and its wide-ranging application.
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The Climate Informatics (CI) Conference 2023 (CI2023) was recently held at the University of Cambridge and aligned with the NSF-funded research coordination network, FAIR in Machine Learning, AI Readiness and AI Reproducibility (FARR), which is co-led by SDSC’s Christine Kirkpatrick and drives awareness and methods for AI reproducibility in climate informatics.
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Amit Chourasia will lead development of Quakeworx, a new science gateway that will democratize access to state-of-the-art methods for physics-based simulations and data analysis for earthquake researchers. It will be built on OneSciencePlace platform, a new composable framework developed by SGCI.
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We are thrilled to be returning to the annual Supercomputing Conference, this year in Denver. The theme of this year’s conference is “I am HPC,” which acknowledges that more than the technology, it’s the people who drive discovery. SDSC has been at the forefront of innovation for nearly 40 years, an achievement we trace to our core values of curiosity, collaboration, and commitment to lasting impact. SDSC’s External Relations team is planning for a terrific line-up of technical talks, panels and “just come on by” events this year that will showcase how the work we do – from accelerated computing and AI, to high energy physics, to wildfire mitigation, and everything in between – is providing new insights into complex phenomena and leading to important breakthroughs. We are also excited this year to again be supporting UC San Diego’s Student Cluster Competition Team, Triton LLC (LLC is a great pun on Last Level Cache). Read more about the competition and the UC San Diego team here.
If you’re planning to attend SC23, please come by booth 1319. And if you can’t make it this year but would like to learn more about what we do and how we can help your company gain a competitive edge through advanced computing, please let us know. Whether you are trying to navigate emerging AI technologies, improve data processing pipelines, optimize applications for accelerated computing, or develop a prototype software product, we’d love to work with you.
With warm regards,
Shawn Strande
SDSC Deputy Director
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Convergence Research Update |
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As another school year begins, we look back on the important milestones over the busy summer months at the CICORE Division. The OpenTopography team received the inaugural Open Science Recognition Prize from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for their outstanding work in advancing Open Science related to Earth and space science and its impact globally. In addition, the California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force unveiled the Interagency Treatment Dashboard at its August meeting, an integral part of our efforts to create a federated data ecosystem to support the Task Force’s goals. The UC San Diego Eric & Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship program welcomed a new cohort of fellows in addition to our first cohort including SDSC’s Jessica Kendall-Bar, who routinely gets recognized by media outlets for her AI in science work as well as her public science communication efforts. October also marks the one-year anniversary of the official launch of the ProWESS Center, a collaboration between UC San Diego and Los Alamos National Lab to accelerate the advancement of science and technology as a basis for responsible and proactive approaches to wildland fire challenges. ProWESS team is excited to share their progress with you in the newly released impact report. And now, as the school year kicks off, we are excited to extend our Convergence Research Institute activities to include undergraduates working on projects related to regenerative agriculture. Partnering with UC San Diego’s Bioregional Center, the institute will train students on use-inspired research and community science, focusing on projects that prioritize user needs and address sustainability challenges in the Calibaja Bioregion.
Ilkay Altintas
Director, CICORE Division at SDSC
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It has been 10 years since SDSC’s last website project, so members of the Editorial Group within the External Relations (ER) Division are working to develop a new and improved website. Simpler navigation, improved functionality, easier upkeep of content and contemporary design are among the project goals. Stay tuned for future updates. The division also extends an invitation for our readers to follow SDSC on social media.
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The Science Gateways 2023 Annual Conference will be held in Pittsburgh, PA, Monday, Oct. 30 - Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023 at the Landing Hotel, in an ongoing effort to bridge the connection between science and gateways. Featured speakers will include 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.
On-site registration ($600) will be available—visit the check-in desk upon arrival.
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GPU Computing and Programming on Expanse
October 26, 11 a.m. to Noon (PT)
This event will be held remotely.
Science Gateways 2023 Annual Conference
October 30 – November 1, Pittsburgh, PA.
Submissions are still open to bring your own portal.
Comparative Anthropogeny and Other Approaches to Human Origins
November 3, 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (PT), CARTA Public Symposium Series, Salk Institute - Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium
Q&A and expert discussion commencing ~ 4:30 p.m. (PT)
In-person and livestreaming symposium with professionally closed-captioned recordings of talks/discussion available post-event. Register for FREE.
Neuroscience Gateway Project Workshop (at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting)
November 11, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., George Washington University, Washington DC
SC23 – Join SDSC in Denver!
November 13 – 17, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO
SDSC will be located in Booth 1319.
For details about the annual conference, please check the conference website.
Interactive Computing on High Performance Computing Resources
December 7, 11:00 a.m. to Noon (PT)
This event will be held remotely.
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Social Media & Video Highlights | |
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UC San Diego published a video featuring cross-disciplinary research reflective of the campus community’s comprehensive leadership of wildfire research in the state and West Coast. We want to add special recognition of HPWREN’s Hans-Werner Braun’s (SDSC) and Frank Vernon’s (Scripps) groundbreaking contributions to this field over many years.
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