Microbiome analyses including COVID-19 research made significantly faster
April 17, 2020 | By Jan Zverina
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have been applying their high-performance computing expertise by porting the popular UniFrac microbiome tool to graphic processing units (GPUs) in a bid to increase the acceleration and accuracy of scientific discovery, including urgently needed COVID-19 research…
Kicking off the program at the 4NRP reception was an event at the Birch Aquarium to celebrate the long and distinguished career of Larry Smarr, who was handing over his leadership of the Pacific Research Platform (PRP) to Frank Wuerthwein, leader of the NRP.
January 20, 2022 San Diego CA: In classic UC San Diego fashion, an overheard conversation at a campus coffee cart has turned into an interdisciplinary project that's making computing-intensive coursework more exciting while saving well over one million dollars so far.
No one predicted the dramatic and sudden shift in the world of work that happened in March of 2020 when COVID shut down offices and the U.S. experienced the mass exodus to a Work-from-Home economy. For many, that shift was a reckoning with inadequate internet capacity for work, school, health care, and entertainment needs and desires.