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October 2024

Dear SDSC Collaborators, Partners and All Friends:

SDSC’s preparations for the annual, national Supercomputing Conference (SC24) are well underway, and we are looking forward to joining many of you in Atlanta next month. Our theme for this year’s conference – Innovating to Impact Science, Technology, Education and Society for a Better World – comes to life in many of the articles featured below. 

We are proud of our work that enables groundbreaking scientific discoveries. For example, the announcement of University of Washington’s David Baker, who recently was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Baker’s connection to SDSC dates back to 2006, when his computational code – Rosetta Code – was used to predict the 3D structure of a small protein solely based on its amino acid sequence. Baker and the SDSC team achieved the largest-ever protein structure prediction and completed the simulation in less than three hours, a huge feat at the time.

UC San Diego Launches the Wildfire Science & Technology Commons

2024 CORE Summit Focuses on AI for Sustainable Food Systems

SDSC and CENIC Work to Expand AI Education Infrastructure in California

OpenTopography Receives $4 Million to Support AI-Ready Access to Data for Research and Education

David Baker Earns Nobel Prize in Chemistry

In 2006, researchers at SDSC contributed massive compute power (for the times) and code optimization to a collaboration that included University of Washington’s Professor David Baker and IBM. The simulation used Baker’s Rosetta Code and ran on more than 40K CPUs of IBM’s Blue Gene Watson system at SDSC. The complex simulation was completed in under three hours—a groundbreaking outcome at the time. Congratulations to David for his distinguished achievement!

Working to Raise Awareness of Data on an International Scale

SDSC’s Christine Kirkpatrick highlighted the importance of data policy and open science in times of crisis during her address at recent Ninth Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) held at the United Nation’s headquarters. Read more about her international efforts to raise data awareness.

SDSC Undergraduate Intern Enhances Earthquake Sim Code at Scale

UCSD Computer Science Student Akash Palla optimized a real-world earthquake wave propagation code to run more effectively on high performance resources including the world’s most powerful supercomputer.

How Can AI be Used to Minimize Risk Factors that can Lead to a Blood Pressure Crash?

See how researchers at UC San Diego, including HDSI's David Danks, are using AI to tackle complex medical problems.

UC San Diego Launches Fusion Energy Institute

Led by the Jacobs School of Engineering, the institute is focused on ensuring that humanity’s recent advances in fusion science translate into safe, abundant and affordable clean energy for California, the nation and the world. (SDSC’s Frank Würthwein and Amit Majumdar are participants).

How AI Can Help Stop the Spread of Misinformation

Machine learning algorithms significantly outperform human judgment in detecting lying during high-stakes strategic interactions, according to new research from the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management.

For a full listing of news around campus, please visit UC San Diego Today.