San Diego Supercomputer Center

Like a fire hose or an axe, UC San Diego's WIFIRE is now an essential tool in modern firefighting. See how the Los Angeles County Fire Department partnered wit...h #NSFfunded researchers to fight fires using supercomputers in this National Science Foundation (NSF) piece: https://beta.nsf.gov//nsfstories-fighting-fires-supercompu Important, impactful work led by engineers at the Jacobs School, San Diego Supercomputer Center and Qualcomm Institute.

For effective countermeasures to the thousands of oil spills that occur each year in the United States, researchers create supercomputer simulations to detail the behavior of oil droplets in water crossflows. PSC (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center) NJIT Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) National Science Foundation (NSF)

The transport of nine types of plastics floating in Lake Erie was modeled to develop the first ever three-dimensional mass estimate for plastic in Lake Erie. UC San Diego National Science Foundation (NSF) Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) Penn State Behrend Rochester Institute of Technology

Research led by the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center studies human T cell receptors, which play a vital role in alerting the adaptive immune system to mount an attack on invading foreign pathogens including the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. UC San Diego National Science Foundation (NSF)

A new cloud service & software from the San Diego Supercomputer Center helps researchers share, access, and discover data

The X-ray Imaging of Microstructures Gateway (XIMG) will make it possible for global material sciences researchers to study the behavior of new and existing materials using X-ray diffraction. UC San Diego National Science Foundation (NSF) Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source University of Minnesota

The CloudBank portal provides researchers with a simplified interface to compare and access a variety of cloud provider services and monitor spending through a unified dashboard. A webinar on simplifying researcher access to public clouds will be held Sept. 18. UC San Diego UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society UW eScience Institute Strategic Blue Services Limited National Science Foundation (NSF)

Supercomputer simulations could advance clean fusion energy use by revealing new insights into plasma turbulence. UC San Diego UCSD Center for Energy Research National Science Foundation (NSF) Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)

Access to high-res topographic and shallow water bathymetric data has revolutionized environmental sciences and engineering, contributing to the study of earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and human modification of the Earth's surface. UC San Diego Measuring Earth School of Earth and Space Exploration at ASU National Science Foundation (NSF) Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)

It may seem strange to talk about quiet versus noisy collisions when discussing neutron stars, but many such impacts form a black hole that swallows all but the gravitational evidence. UC San Diego Penn State National Science Foundation (NSF) Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)