San Diego Supercomputer Center

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San Diego Supercomputer Center company profile

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) enables international science and engineering discoveries through advances in computational science and data-intensive, high-performance computing. It provides access to a vast array of data and computational resources and services for all UC researchers who need cyberinfrastructure beyond their own laboratories, classrooms, departments, and academic units. SDSC’s research cyberinfrastructure includes: data-intensive computing resources to the academic and industrial communities through the RCI program's Triton Shared Computing Cluster (TSCC), a high-impact data analysis and preservation system featuring a large-scale disk storage facility, a data analysis facility for petascale research, and a shared research cluster; Gordon, the first high-performance supercomputer to use massive amounts of flash-based memory to speed solutions for data-intensive problems; Trestles, which also features flash-based memory, with a design tailored to the majority of user jobs rather than a handful of researchers who run jobs at thousands of core counts; a green data center equipped to house co-location servers; and an environment for all things related to data, including management, mining, curation, analysis, visualization, access and preservation as well as data storage technologies. Along with its broad spectrum of software, hardware, networking, and information resources, SDSC also offers users full-time support including 24-hour helpdesk services, code optimization, training, portal development, and a variety of other services. San Diego Supercomputer Center was founded in 1985.