San Diego Supercomputer Center

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Physically, SDSC is located on the east end of the Eleanor Roosevelt College on the campus of UCSD.

Founded in 1985, its self prescribed mission is "developing and using technology to advance science". SDSC is primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and pursues research in the areas of high performance computing, grid computing, computational biology, geoinformatics, computational physics, computational chemistry, data management, scientific visualization, and computer networking. SDSC is internationally recognized for its contribution to computational biosciences and computational approaches to earth sciences and genomics. SDSC is especially known for its role in the creation and maintenance of the Protein Data Bank, the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Cyberinfrastructure Center (NEESit), cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences (GEON), and the Tree of Life Project (TOL) .

SDSC is one of the four original sites involved in the TeraGrid project along with National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Argonne National Laboratory, and Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR).

SDSC developed the Rocks cluster computing environment, and is a pioneer in data management software development, including the Storage resource broker (SRB).

Currently, the director of SDSC is Dr. Francine Berman, a noted pioneer in grid computing.

SDSC is also home to the Performance Modeling and Characterization (PMaC) laboratory, whose mission is to bring scientific rigor to the prediction and understanding of factors effecting the performance of current and projected High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms.

PMaC is funded by the Department of Energy (SciDac PERC research grant), the Department of Defense (NAVO MSRC PET program), DARPA, and the National Science Foundation's STI (Strategic Technologies for the Internet) program.

Allan E. Snavely, Ph.D., founded the PMaC laboratory in 2001. He is currently the PMaC group leader and the UCSD Primary Investigator on the DoE PERC project and the DoD HPC Performance Modeling project.

ee also

*Library of Congress Digital Library project
*National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program

External links

* [http://www.sdsc.edu SDSC]
* [http://www.sdsc.edu/about/Director.html Francine Berman]
* [http://www.sdsc.edu/PMaC/ PMac]
* [http://www.sdsc.edu/~allans/ Allan E. Snavely]
* [http://roosevelt.ucsd.edu Eleanor Roosevelt College]
* [http://neesit.org/ NEESit]
* [http://chronopolis.sdsc.edu Chronopolis]