San Diego Supercomputer Center
San Diego Supercomputer Center East Wing | |
| Formation | 14 November 1985; 37 years ago |
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| Headquarters | 9836 Hopkins Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States |
| Services | High-performance, data-intensive computing and cyberinfrastructure |
Director | Frank Würthwein |
Parent organization | University of California San Diego |
| Affiliations | XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) |
| Website | https://www.sdsc.edu/ |
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego. Founded in 1985, it was one of the five original NSF supercomputing centers, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, the Cornell National Supercomputing Facility, the John von Neumann National Supercomputing Center, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Together, the centers form an interconnected web across the country.
Its research pursuits are high performance computing, grid computing, computational biology, geoinformatics, computational physics, computational chemistry, data management, scientific visualization, cyberinfrastructure, and computer networking. The SDSC is known internationally for its computational biosciences contributions, as well as its earth science and genomic computational approaches .
The current SDSC director is Frank Würthwein, Ph.D., UC San Diego physics professor and a founding faculty member of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute of UC San Diego. Additional members of the Executive Team include Chief Administrative Officer Fritz Leader, Deputy Director Ashley Atkins, and Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay Altintas . Würthwein assumed the role in July 2021, succeeding Michael L. Norman, who was also a physics professor at UC San Diego. Norman was the SDSC director from September 2010 until Würthwein was named the new director.