Dear SDSC Staff, Collaborators, Partners and All Friends:
I hope 2024 is off to a good start for you. The new year is in full swing at SDSC, so we have some exciting updates to share.
To kick things off, I am very happy to report that SDSC is officially an affiliate of Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC), a global organization that strives to bring together women in HPC and technical computing while encouraging women to engage in outreach activities and improve the visibility of inspirational role models. Led by
Subha Sivagnanam and Claire Stirm, the SDSC group recently held its first official meeting as an affiliate. More than 30 SDSC women-identified participants discussed the group’s vision and goals.
The National Science Foundation, along with the U.S. Department of Energy, announced an initial call for proposals for access to advanced computing resources to the national research community as part of its recently launched National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot. You can read details about this development in the articles featured under News Highlights and S3D Update,
but essentially the news is that members of the U.S. research community have been invited to submit proposals for projects focused on forwarding safe, secure and trustworthy AI. We are very excited about the potential of this pilot program because it can add curated AI-ready data sources and cloud credits as part of the allocation mechanism—allocations on experimental systems like Voyager and the National Research Platform, and AI resources for educational programs.
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Members of the U.S. research community have the opportunity to request access to advanced computing resources for projects focused on forwarding safe, secure and trustworthy AI with an initial call for researchers open until March 1, 2024.
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Scientists used ACCESS resources at SDSC to run density functional theory (DFT) calculations that showcase how carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion can be converted to higher-carbon chain fuels — supporting the nation's transition to clean energy.
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Computer science and AI researchers, school safety managers, 911 program directors, service providers and policymakers discussed using 911 data streams with advanced AI models to improve response to mass casualty events, especially on school campuses.
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In order for human muscles to properly contract and release, a delicate dance between calcium ion and troponin takes place. If the balance between these two falters, muscles – such as the heart – can fail and result in health issues such as cardiac arrest.
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Javier Duarte's experimental work involving artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as his contributions to advances in Higgs physics studies at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, earned him the American Physical Society award.
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| PIs, such as SDSC’s Christine Kirkpatrick,
met to discuss collaboration opportunities between their projects covering topics such as quantum free energy, seismic simulators, a Center of Excellence for creating science gateways, cosmology and astrophysics.
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Schmidt AI Postdoctoral Fellow Jessica Kendall-Bar is working with SDSC’s Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay Altintas,
who also serves as associate director for education in the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship program.
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| SDSC’s Ange Mason,
who leads the center’s Research Experiences for High School Students (REHS) program, has announced the opening of the 2024 summer internship season. Students are invited to submit applications for participation in the eight-week hands-on experience.
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| The Sustainable Scientific Software Division (S3D) at SDSC entered the new year with intense preparation for and launch of the
NAIRR Pilot Portal, featured in a recent White House press release. The NAIRR Pilot is an interagency governmental program led by the National Science Foundation, which selected the SGX3 Center of Excellence for Science Gateways to create this portal and we utilized our Hubzero® Platform to deliver the solution. NAIRR is an overarching concept to accelerate discovery and innovation and help solve critical societal and global challenges through the use of AI. It aims to create a shared national research infrastructure that connects U.S. researchers to AI tools, computational resources, data sets, training materials and educational resources to advance research, discovery and innovation.
S3D performed extensive stress tests to optimize the performance and responsiveness of the NAIRR Pilot Portal to handle a potential surge in traffic at the launch. These new optimizations will be rolled out to all other hubs soon. Improvements such as these are an added benefit for clients that use our managed “no hassle” science gateway operation service.
We congratulated Steven Clark
on his retirement with over a decade of innovation and sustenance of the Hubzero tools pipeline. Michael Zentner presented an invited talk on Science Gateways at NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure for Major Facilities workshop. Sandra Gesing
presented a talk on Science Gateways at the NIST meeting on a National Standards Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technology. She also co-chaired two minitracks at the Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences, gave two talks there and one at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and presented a webinar on science gateways and FAIR in the SGX3 webinar series. I presented an invited talk on OneSciencePlace® platform and the Quakeworx project at the EarthScope Consortium’s Data Services quarterly retreat.
Contact us to discuss your project, and we can share how our science platforms and software teams can help.
Amit Chourasia
Associate Director, Sustainable Scientific Software Division at SDSC
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The two AI-themed workshops at UC San Diego highlight cyberinfrastructure collaboration and examine opportunities for designing and implementing future-forward cyber capabilities for research and education communities. NSF’s Director Katerina Antypas, of CISE/OAC, will deliver the keynote address for 5NRP, March 20.
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SDSC, along with the GO FAIR Foundation, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Ronin Institute and other partners, will conduct data landscaping work funded by the
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, operated by Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., on behalf of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
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A team of UC San Diego undergraduate students won third place in the annual Student Cluster Competition, held at the recent 2023 Supercomputing Conference in Denver, Colorado. The students from SDSC and Jacobs School of Engineering were among a total of 11 in-person teams from around the world selected to compete.
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ICICLE Educational Fellows Program 2024
Application deadline February 23.
COMPLECS: Code Migration
March 7, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (PT)
This event will be held remotely.
Women in Tech: Impactful Climate & Environmental Sustainability Solutions
March 7, 5:00 to 8:00 PM (PT), UC San Diego Rady School of Management
FABRIC - KNIT 8 Workshop
March 19 – 21, SDSC, UC San Diego
KNIT 8 will be co-located with the Fifth National Research Platform (5NRP) Workshop.
Fifth National Research Platform (5NRP)
March 20 – 22, Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego
COMPLECS: Batch Computing: Getting Started with Batch Job Scheduling - Slurm Edition
March 21, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (PT)
This event will be held remotely.
The Right Connection - CENIC's Biennial Conference
March 25 – 27, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Monterey, CA
COMPLECS: HPC Hardware Overview
April 4, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (PT)
This event will be held remotely.
COMPLECS: Interactive Computing
April 18, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (PT)
This event will be held remotely.
Gateway Focus Week
April 15 – 19, Austin, TX
Application deadline March 15.
Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Machine Learning Summer Institute
Save the date: June 25 – 27
This event will be held in-person.
HPC and Data Science Summer Institute
Save the date: August 5 – 9
This event will be held in-person.
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Atmospheric rivers have a major impact on annual rainfall in the western United States. Researchers at CW3E at Scripps Institution of Oceanography utilize the Comet supercomputer, housed at SDSC, to run the calculations that help us better understand these major water events.
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