SDSC

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is a research center at the University of California, San Diego, that focuses on high-performance computing, data-intensive computing, and cyberinfrastructure for science and engineering. It provides compute resources, data storage, software engineering, and consulting services to researchers across academia, government, and industry. SDSC aims to accelerate scientific discovery by enabling scalable computation, efficient data management, and advanced visualization.

Historically established in the 1980s with support from the National Science Foundation and other partners, SDSC has grown into a major center for national cyberinfrastructure and research software development. It has hosted and operated a variety of high-performance systems and services and participates in national initiatives to broaden access to computing resources, notably serving as a contributor to the XSEDE program.

Researchers at SDSC work across multiple disciplines, including biosciences, earth and space sciences, engineering, chemistry, and physics, applying HPC and data analytics to large-scale simulations, genomics, climate modeling, and AI-driven scientific workflows. The center also emphasizes software sustainability, reproducible research, and open science, providing environments, tools, and training to help researchers develop and share reusable code.

SDSC is part of the University of California, San Diego, and is governed by a director and professional staff, including scientists, system administrators, and engineers. It maintains collaborations with other universities, national laboratories, and industry partners to advance computing and data science capabilities.