Newswise – The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego has been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2022 International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, storage and analysis (SC22), in Dallas, Texas. The list of winners was revealed at the HPCwire booth SC22, as well as on the HPCwire website.
SDSC has received the following distinctions:
- Readers’ Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in the Cloud (Use Case)
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a gigatonne-scale collaboration including the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, uses Google Cloud, Google Kubernetes Engine, and GPU sharing between Nvidia GPUs in Google Kubernetes Engine to extend the Open Science Grid to help detect neutrinos at the South Pole. Sharing increased work throughput by approximately 40%.
- Readers’ Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in Energy
A UC San Diego graduate student, working with an international team of researchers, used the San Diego Supercomputer Center’s Comet system to explore methane storage applications. They validated the use of computational chemistry as a tool to design new porous carbon materials for methane storage applications – a key transition technology to low carbon chemical fuels for vehicles.
- Editors’ Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in Response to Societal Issues (Emergency Computing, COVID-19)
Researchers at the University of California Riverside (UCR), using supercomputing power from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), investigated methods to remove non-biodegradable “permanent chemicals” such as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS ) Of drinking water. The research relied on SDSC’s Comet supercomputer, a 2.76 peak petaflops system, provided by Dell.
- Editors’ Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in Response to Societal Issues (Emergency Computing, COVID-19)
Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and UC San Diego, in partnership with the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA), have developed computer tools to plan for COVID-safe school operations. The Agent-based Geographically Assisted Model for COVID-19 Transmission (GeoACT) was designed for use on the center’s Comet and Expanse supercomputers (both built by Dell).
- Editors’ Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in the Physical Sciences
Purdue University researchers’ simulations with XSEDE systems at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, San Diego Supercomputer Center, and Texas Advanced Computing Center reproduced sound waves to manage heat and stress in fluid flow. Scientists used Bridges-2 at PSC (built by HPE), then Comet at SDSC and Stampede2 at TACC (both Dell systems), to create and then run massive simulations.
The coveted annual HPCwire The Readers’ and Editors’ Choice awards are determined through a nomination and voting process with the global HPCwire community, as well as selections from HPCwire editors. The awards are an annual feature of the publication and are a prestigious recognition from the HPC community. They are unveiled each year to kick off the annual Supercomputing Conference, which showcases high performance computing, networking, storage and data analytics.
“The 2022 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards are truly exceptional. Solutions developed with HPC have lifted the world out of the pandemic, and we have officially crossed the Exascale threshold – HPC has now reached one billion, billion operations per second! said Tom Tabor, CEO of Tabor Communications, publisher of HPCwire. “Between our global readership of HPC experts and the most renowned panel of editors in the industry, the Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards represent a resounding recognition of HPC achievements around the world. Our most sincere thanks and warm congratulations go to all the winners.”
Frank Würthwein, Director of SDSC, who has had the privilege of being a recipient of the HPCwire Awards for 11 years, said, “I commend Tabor Communications for its commitment to elevating high performance computing and its community of practitioners in the fields of science. data, science and engineering. , and more. We are extremely grateful and honored to be recognized again this year with multiple awards.
More information about these awards can be found on the HPCwire website or on Twitter using the hashtag #HPCwireAwards.
San Diego Supercomputer Center
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