Dear SDSC Staff, Collaborators, Partners and All Friends:
This summer marked an exciting milestone for our community. Last month, the University of California Regents approved the new School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences at UC San Diego. SDSC represents a core pillar of the new school, along with the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute. This foundational role is a testament to our national leadership in transforming data into actionable knowledge—and an opportunity to grow our impact in new ways. The stories in this newsletter are some recent highlights emphasizing how well positioned SDSC is to contribute to the mission of the new school.
It is probably no surprise that our engagement with AI builds on a foundation of compute and data infrastructure excellence, and extends from there to applications of AI to a wide range of domains (e.g., physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, etc.), as well as interdisciplinary solutions to societal problems. We will cover more of these applications of AI in future newsletters
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The additional multimillion-dollar award expands the artificial intelligence capabilities of Expanse, SDSC’s flagship supercomputer, to enable researchers to train complex models that can be applied to a wide range of real-life applications such as weather prediction, health care, smart manufacturing and self-driving cars.
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The new school combines the strengths of SDSC, a national leader in high-performance and data-intensive computing, and HDSI, a pioneering interdisciplinary institute that advances data science and AI education and research, to convert data into actionable knowledge to solve society’s most pressing problems.
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With an initial NSF award for $5 million to acquire and deploy the system, and a subsequent similar award expected for the five-year operations, Cosmos' unique chip architecture will broaden access to accelerated computing and aid discoveries in AI, astrophysics, genomics, large language models, materials science and more.
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Before transferring to a four-year university, students gain real-world experiences in computational chemistry using SDSC's Expanse supercomputer and tools that enable them to create simulations to visualize their work.
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User Services Group Lead and Computational Data Science Research Specialist Manager Mahidhar Tatineni has been named the center’s 2024 Pi Person of the Year. This annual award, first bestowed to an SDSC researcher in 2013, recognizes an individual whose outstanding impact straddles both science and cyberinfrastructure technology.
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SDSC's Research Data Services Division onboards undergrads for positions in their agile application development program. Students work in a fast-paced environment that prepares them for positions at companies such as Google, AWS and Microsoft by experiencing project management, product management, and front- and back-end development.
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SDSC recently held the Ninth Annual Mentor Assistance Program (MAP) Showcase, led by Ange Mason, during which more than 50 students presented their work in one-minute lightning talks followed by a poster session. The MAP program serves students in grades 10-12 from the Greater San Diego area.
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COMPLECS: Parallel Computing Concepts
September 5, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (PT)
This event will be held remotely.
Globus World Tour
September 17 – 18, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego
This event will be held in-person.
COMPLECS: Intermediate Linux and Shell Scripting
September 19, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (PT)
This event will be held remotely.
7th RUCIO Community Workshop
September 30 – October 4
This event will be held in-person.
COMPLECS: Code Migration
October 3, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
This event will be held remotely.
Gateways 2024
October 8 – 10, Bozeman, MT
Application deadline September 30.
How Humans Came to Construct Their Worlds
October 11, 1:00 to 5:30 PM, Salk Institute and Livestream
COMPLECS: High-Throughput and Many-Task Computing - Slurm Edition
October 17, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
This event will be held remotely.
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Students from UC San Diego, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Kansas and Denmark's Aalborg University came together in June to tackle the challenge: creating a high-performance cluster from single-socket computers while meeting strict power and budget constraints.
The Aalborg University team won the overall competition, followed by the University of Kansas, with third place going to SDSC.
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AI Software “EdgeRIC” Could Make Your Internet Experience Smoother, Faster
A team from the Qualcomm Institute and Jacobs School of Engineering, and Texas A&M University has developed an AI-based software platform that could one day give internet users a more efficient and enjoyable experience over the cellular network.
How will AI Shape Next Generation Wireless?
With 5G network connectivity now a reality, wireless industry and academic research leaders met at the San Diego Wireless Summit to assess the state of 5G, and focus on how AI could impact the capabilities of next-generation wireless systems.
For a full listing of news around campus, please visit UC San Diego Today.
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