San Diego Supercomputer Center
| Formation | 14 November 1985; 37 years ago |
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| Headquarters | 9836 Hopkins Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States |
| Services | High-performance, data-intensive computing and cyberinfrastructure |
Director | Frank Würthwein |
Parent organization | University of California San Diego |
| Affiliations | XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) |
| Website | https://www.sdsc.edu/ |
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). SDSC is located at the UCSD campus' Eleanor Roosevelt College east end, immediately north the Hopkins Parking Structure.
The current SDSC director is Frank Würthwein, Ph.D., UCSD physics professor and a founding faculty member of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute of UCSD, who succeeded Michael L. Norman, also a Physics professor from UC San Diego Department, and who was the SDSC director since September 2010. Frank Würthwein assumed the role of SDSC director in July 2021.
SDSC was founded in 1985 and describes its mission as "developing and using technology to advance science." The SDSC was one of the five original NSF Supercomputing Centers and the National Science Foundation (NSF) continues to be a primary funder of the SDSC. Its research pursuits are high performance computing, grid computing, computational biology, geoinformatics, computational physics, computational chemistry, data management, scientific visualization, cyberinfrastructure, and computer networking. SDSC computational biosciences contributions and earth science and genomics computational approaches are internationally recognized.