Powering the Future: From Fusion to Fiber |
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Dear SDSC Collaborators, Partners and All Friends:
As we gear up for SC25, now just a month away, this year’s conference theme HPC Ignites reminds us of the energy and innovation that drive our work and the vital role HPC plays in shaping the future of discovery. We look forward to seeing many of you in St. Louis and continuing the conversations that advance our shared progress. Stay tuned for more details about SDSC’s programming at SC25, including the activities at our booth.
As we prepare for what’s ahead at SC25, I want to take a moment to reflect on some of SDSC’s achievements this past quarter. We have been working closely with General Atomics and UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering to unite fusion research data across the country into one powerful platform. This project, led by Ilkay Altintas, is one of many ongoing SDSC efforts to advance U.S. progress toward clean, commercial fusion power.
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SDSC and General Atomics are joining forces with partners nationwide to build a unified data platform that will accelerate fusion energy research and drive progress toward a U.S. fusion pilot plant by the 2040s.
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Space flight can threaten an astronaut’s vision. Using SDSC’s Expanse, UC San Diego researchers built an artificial intelligence tool to predict who is most at risk for developing eyesight issues — before liftoff.
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CENIC AIR now has AI hardware in both San Diego and Los Angeles County Community College Districts. View SDSC Director Frank Würthwein's keynote slides from the International Conference on Parallel Processing at the above link.
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Scientists are using supercomputers to develop next-generation batteries powered by abundant metals like magnesium, zinc and aluminum to replace scarce lithium in response to growing demands from electric vehicles and renewable energy storage.
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Flashback 1985: SDSC Opens Its Doors as One of the Nation’s First Supercomputer Centers
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Forty years ago, SDSC was established through a National Science Foundation cooperative agreement with UC San Diego and GA (General Atomics) Technologies as part of a national effort to expand computing for scientific research. Founder and first director Sid Karin, whose unsolicited proposal led to its creation, noted that SDSC was among the first centers to offer interactive supercomputing access to researchers across diverse fields.
In 1985, when the iconic Cray X-MP/48 supercomputer powered up at SDSC, it was among the world’s most powerful computing systems. Today’s top smartphones perform calculations more than 3,000 times faster.
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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.
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SDSC has partnered with MCNC to deliver secure cloud enclaves and advanced data services to over 1,000 community institutions across North Carolina by combining SDSC's Sherlock capability with MCNC's broadband network.
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Scientists at PSI used SDSC's Expanse supercomputer to create a near-real-time solar corona model that continuously updates with new magnetic field data, enabling it to capture dynamic solar phenomena like coronal mass ejections that static models miss.
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UC Riverside researchers used HPC systems at SDSC and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to reveal how a bacterial protein complex guides “jumping genes” to precise genome locations, paving the way for new gene-editing tools for medicine and agriculture.
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Scientists used Expanse to simulate how oxygen-dependent bacteria survive in ocean “dead zones,” rapidly multiplying during brief oxygen intrusions and persisting in low numbers until the next pulse, fueled by stored energy in these low-oxygen environments.
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SDSC’s Amit Mujumdar was among UC San Diego researchers that received three Western Digital Petabyte Innovation Quest awards — each providing 1.2 petabytes of data storage to advance projects in fusion energy, spatial genomics and 3D cultural heritage preservation.
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The NSF National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot includes datasets from the NSF-funded OpenTopography project led by SDSC's Vishu Nandigam at UC San Diego, in partnership with Arizona State University and the EarthScope Consortium.
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An Ohio TV program recently featured SDSC researcher Amarnath Gupta, who is harnessing the power of AI to support small business owners in the food industry. Watch the NOURISH segment starting at the 14:20 mark.
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For the past four decades, SDSC has been a premier national resource for integrated data and computing solutions and secure cyberinfrastructure. For those of you planning to attend SC25 in St. Louis next month, stop by our booth (#217) to hear how our experts are building on SDSC's 40-year legacy in research computing, translating research into impacts, offering services that secure our digital future and continuing to serve science and the nation.
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COMPLECS: Linux Shell Scripting
October 23, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
This event will be held remotely.
Gateways 2025
October 28 - 30, Green Bay, WI
This event will be held in-person.
Advanced HPC-CI Webinar Series: Portable Accelerator Programming with SYCL
November 4, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
This event will be held remotely.
COMPLECS: Using Regular Expressions with Linux Tools
November 6, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
This event will be held remotely.
Ancient DNA: New Revelations
November 7, 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM
In-person at Salk Institute with webcast.
Supercomputing Conference 2025 (SC25)
November 16-21, St. Louis, MO
This event will be held in-person.
COMPLECS: Batch Computing (Part III)
High-Throughput and Many-Task Computing - Slurm Edition
December 4, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (PT)
This event will be held remotely.
Advanced HPC-CI Webinar Series: R for HPC
December 9, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (PT)
This event will be held remotely.
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A recent NJ Edge interview with SDSC Director Frank Würthwein covers a lot of ground from "AI education infrastructure" to reflections on the fundamentals of the relationship between industry and academia.
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Making Electronics More Resilient to Radiation
UC San Diego researchers are part of a new $17M DOE research center addressing one of the most pressing challenges in modern electronics: enabling critical components to withstand the harsh radiation conditions found in space and other terrestrial environments.
UC San Diego’s New AI Major is Here
The new artificial intelligence major is designed to prepare students to build the next generation of AI systems, improve the foundations of the AI systems currently in use, and familiarize students with the ethical questions surrounding these systems and their impact on society.
For a full listing of news around campus, please visit UC San Diego Today.
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