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Welcome to the San Diego Supercomputer Center

Welcome to the San Diego Supercomputer Center. This presentation was adapted from a previous version created by Fran Berman, SDSC Director. About SDSC. Founded in 1985, was affiliated with General Atomics Funded mainly by the United States National Science Foundation

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Welcome to the San Diego Supercomputer Center

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  1. Welcome to theSan Diego Supercomputer Center This presentation was adapted from a previous version created by Fran Berman, SDSC Director

  2. About SDSC • Founded in 1985, was affiliated with General Atomics • Funded mainly by the United States National Science Foundation • SDSC has more than 400 scientists, software developers and support personnel with expertise in • high-performance computing, • data and knowledge systems, • networking, • visualization, • computational science, • grid and cluster computing, • and security

  3. SDSC Highlights • Supercomputers • 3 major academic research supercomputers • One of the 25 fastest on Earth! • Data • 600 times the data in the United States National Library of Congress, or the amount of music in over 300,000 iPods! • Many Different Kinds of People • Computer Scientists, Biologists, Astronomers, Gamers, Oceanographers, Hacker trackers, etc.

  4. The Machine Room SDSC Machine Room – 11,000 ft2

  5. What would happen if 1000 gallons of oil spilled into San Diego Bay? (“What if” Models) Can we design efficient hydrogen fuel cells? (Engineering Models) What will happen if the Earth’s climate gets warmer? (Prediction Models) SDSC Staff Help Researchers Do Computational Science

  6. Twoways of making computers solve problems faster: Make them smarter Make them work together We Solve Problems Faster

  7. We can divide the program into parts and execute a different part of the program on each computer To save time, we can run the different parts of the program at the same time We call these kinds of programs parallel programs The Network IS The Computer

  8. The Southern San Andreas Fault • How to simulate an earthquake: 1. Divide up Southern California into “blocks” 2. For each block, collect data on ground surface composition, geological structures, fault information, etc.

  9. How to simulate an earthquake: 3. Map the blocks on to processors SDSC’s DataStar – one of the 25 fastest computers in the world

  10. Where does SDSC keep the data? • In HPSS, a tape storage library that can hold 6 PetaBytes (6000 Terabytes) -- 300 times the printed materials in the United States National Library of Congress • How to simulate an earthquake: 4. The simulation outputs data on seismic wave velocity, earthquake magnitude,and other characteristics • How much data was output? • 47 TeraByteswhich is • More than two times the printed materials in the United States National Library of Congress! or • The amount of music in over 2000 iPods! Play movie

  11. 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Simulation Play movie

  12. More Volume Visualization • Orion Nebula Simulation for Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History Play movie

  13. Educational Gaming Explore the Earth Build a Star http://visservices.sdsc.edu/

  14. Thanks for visiting SDSC! http://www.sdsc.edu/

  15. On To The Machine Room…

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