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CENIC Honors San Diego State University and the San Diego Supercomputer Center for their Roles in Developing the Technology Infrastructure for Data Exploration (TIDE) Project

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

CENIC is pleased to present the 2024 Innovations in Networking Award for Equitable Access to Cyberinfrastructure to the Technology Infrastructure for Data Exploration (TIDE) Project.

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  • CENIC is pleased to present the 2024 Innovations in Networking Award for Equitable Access to Cyberinfrastructure to the Technology Infrastructure for Data Exploration (TIDE) Project.
  • This new CSU TIDE cyberinfrastructure, which is interconnected and accessed via the CENIC network, is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF Award #2346701).
  • The project was spearheaded by Jerry Sheehan, now Chief Information Officer at the Salk Institute, during his time as CIO at San Diego State University.
  • (TIDE) exemplifies this springboard approach to innovation by leveraging the CENIC network's robust foundation and our partners' computational expertise at the San Diego Supercomputer Center,” Sheehan stated.

CENIC Recognizes İlkay Altıntaş of UC San Diego and San Diego Supercomputer Center for Groundbreaking Contributions to Data Science

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

The CENIC Innovations in Networking Awards recognize exemplary people, projects, and organizations that leverage high-bandwidth networking.

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  • The CENIC Innovations in Networking Awards recognize exemplary people, projects, and organizations that leverage high-bandwidth networking.
  • Altıntaş’s role at UC San Diego and the SDSC has paved the way for numerous groundbreaking achievements.
  • “We are deeply impressed by the scope of her impact in data science, which goes far beyond the achievements listed here.
  • She played a vital role in establishing both NPS and the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center as CENIC members.

General Atomics-led Team Awarded $7.4 Million to Develop Transformational Fusion Data Platform

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Friday, September 1, 2023

San Diego, CA, Sept. 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected a multi-institutional team of data scientists led by General Atomics (GA) to develop a Fusion Data Platform (FDP) for advancing high-priority fusion research.

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  • San Diego, CA, Sept. 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected a multi-institutional team of data scientists led by General Atomics (GA) to develop a Fusion Data Platform (FDP) for advancing high-priority fusion research.
  • The FDP will provide researchers with access to high-quality fusion data for the creation of reproducible Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) models.
  • “Creating a robust AI/ML platform with very large, curated datasets and efficient processing tools will be transformational for fusion energy,” said Brian Sammuli, Deputy Director of the Advanced Computing Center of Excellence at General Atomics and Principal Investigator.
  • “By advancing AI/ML research in fusion, we will be able to rapidly address some key remaining challenges in fusion science and reactor development.

Saudi’s Ministry of Economy and Planning joins forces with UpLink to address food insecurity in arid climates

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Thursday, January 19, 2023

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP) in collaboration with UpLink today launched an innovation challenge designed to crowdsource transformative solutions to enhance food security in countries impacted by low rainfall, drought, and desertification.

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  • Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP) in collaboration with UpLink today launched an innovation challenge designed to crowdsource transformative solutions to enhance food security in countries impacted by low rainfall, drought, and desertification.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230119005599/en/
    Saudi's Ministry of Economy and Planning and UpLink launch innovation challenge to enhance food security.
  • The Food Ecosystems and Arid Climates Challenge is a global call for food entrepreneurs, start-ups, social ventures, and small-medium sized enterprises to submit solutions that incorporate low or high technologies.
  • This is the first of two challenges focused on food systems, with a second to be launched later in 2023 on climate-smart agriculture.

General Atomics Scientists Leverage DOE Supercomputers to Advance Fusion Energy

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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

A key element of the drive to practical fusion energy is accurately simulating the behavior of the fusion fuel during operation.

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  • A key element of the drive to practical fusion energy is accurately simulating the behavior of the fusion fuel during operation.
  • These simulations allow researchers to test theories and design more effective experiments on devices like the DIII-D National Fusion Facility.
  • Such simulations require enormous computing power, and many can only be run effectively on high-end supercomputers like those operated by the DOE.
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    About General Atomics: Since the dawn of the atomic age, General Atomics innovations have advanced the state of the art across the full spectrum of science and technology from nuclear energy and defense to medicine and high-performance computing.

Sidus Space Celebrates the Successful Space-Qualification of Dhruva Space’s Satellite Orbital Deployer

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Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Sidus Space will integrate Dhruvas CubeSat deployer with its own Phoenix Deployer which is in development.

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  • Sidus Space will integrate Dhruvas CubeSat deployer with its own Phoenix Deployer which is in development.
  • This combined capability will allow the Sidus Space / Dhruva Space partnership to offer full-service CubeSat launch options to a large variety of customers.
  • Speaking on the success of the space-qualification, Sanjay Nekkanti, CEO, Dhruva Space Private Limited, shares, Our successful testing and space-qualification of Dhruva Spaces Satellite Orbital Deployer marks a new chapter in Indias space history, and the PSLV C53 mission is an iconic milestone in the journey of Dhruva Space.
  • Sidus Space and Dhruva Space initially entered into a partnership in 2020 to collaborate and catalyze the design, development and commercialization of new innovative space technologies and services.

Esteemed HPC Guru Dr. James Cuff Comes Out of Retirement to Help GigaIO Team Build Impossible Configurations Through Composability

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Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Dr. Cuff will be tasked with helping design composable architectures that function at scale and provide the foundation for the worlds most complex and challenging workloads.

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  • Dr. Cuff will be tasked with helping design composable architectures that function at scale and provide the foundation for the worlds most complex and challenging workloads.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220329005449/en/
    Dr. James Cuff, former assistant dean and distinguished engineer for research computing, Harvard University, pictured on site with the Odyssey computing cluster.
  • GigaIO is the only vendor composing entire racks using only PCIe for the absolute lowest latency and highest bandwidth throughout.
  • With GigaIO we now have a path, and a technology to be able to build impossible configurations through composability.

Melax Tech Receives NIH Award to Construct AI-assisted Application Using COVID-19 Data Sets

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Monday, March 14, 2022

The Phase 1 contract, valued at $300,000, has been awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a COVID-19 Dataset Knowledge Graph (COVID-DKG) to facilitate integrated analysis of heterogeneous COVID-19 data sets.

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  • The Phase 1 contract, valued at $300,000, has been awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a COVID-19 Dataset Knowledge Graph (COVID-DKG) to facilitate integrated analysis of heterogeneous COVID-19 data sets.
  • Despite existing efforts making COVID-19 data sets available for research uses, the volume and the heterogeneity of COVID-19 data make it difficult for researchers to find, understand and reuse relevant data sets for their research purposes.
  • Melax Tech was founded in 2017 and has more than 700 organizations using their technology today.More information about Melax Tech's solutions is available on the company website .
  • It provides the research community with large-scale compute and data resources, research networking, software and computational and data science expertise.

San Diego Supercomputer Center and Fungible Achieve Record-Breaking Storage Performance

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Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Fungible Inc., a pioneer in data-centric computing, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), a leader and pioneer in high-performance and data-intensive computing at the University of California San Diego, today announced they have shattered the NVMe over TCP storage initiator performance world record, achieving 10M IOPS.

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  • Fungible Inc., a pioneer in data-centric computing, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), a leader and pioneer in high-performance and data-intensive computing at the University of California San Diego, today announced they have shattered the NVMe over TCP storage initiator performance world record, achieving 10M IOPS.
  • The prior performance record was attained using the Fungible Storage Cluster without the benefit of the Fungible Storage Initiator cards.
  • According to John Graham, UC San Diego senior development engineer working at SDSC and the Qualcomm Institute, The Fungible solution has set a new bar for storage performance in our environment.
  • Fungible, Fungible Data Processing Unit, Fungible DPU, Fungible Data Center and TrueFabric are registered trademarks of Fungible Inc. All registered or unregistered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners.

Hayden AI Welcomes Bryan Shea as Vice President of Data Security and Privacy

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Tuesday, September 14, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Hayden AI Technologies, Inc. ("Hayden AI"), a leading smart city solutions provider that developed the world's first autonomous traffic management platform, today announced the appointment of Bryan Shea, a US Government trained intelligence officer, as Vice President of Data Security and Privacy.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Hayden AI Technologies, Inc. ("Hayden AI"), a leading smart city solutions provider that developed the world's first autonomous traffic management platform, today announced the appointment of Bryan Shea, a US Government trained intelligence officer, as Vice President of Data Security and Privacy.
  • In his new role, Shea will provide leadership and strategic direction for all cybersecurity efforts, including security frameworks, technology governance and policies, data privacy and security programs, and incident response plans.
  • As an intelligence officer with over a decade of experience across multiple domains, Bryan is well positioned to take the lead," said Chris Carson, Co-Founder and CEO of Hayden AI.
  • I look forward to leveraging my expertise to help Hayden AI foster a truly collaborative ethos to advance forward-looking privacy policies."