In the News
- Researchers Develop Code that Reduces Time and Cost in Simulating Seismic Hazards - The benchmarks, run on Titan, showed a five-fold speedup over the heavily optimized CPU code on the same system, and a sustained performance of one petaflop per second on the tested system. HPCWire, April 2, 2013. See also UCSD News, ScienceDaily, SDSC News, NVIDIA News
- SDSC, SDSU Share in $4.6 Million
NSF Grant to Simulate Earthquake Faults
- The five-year earthquake simulation project is to develop and apply the most capable earthquake simulators to investigate these fault systems, focusing first on the North American plate boundary and the San Andreas system of Northern and Southern California. UCSD News, September 23, 2011
- SDSC Visualizations Win 'OASCR' Awards at SciDAC 2011 - M8 visualization is among the recipients of the people's choice OASCR awards announced at the 2011 SciDAC (Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program) conference.
Wired Science, August 8, 2011
- M8 Visualization Wins Best Visualization Display Award at TeraGrid'11 meeting,
TeraGrid News, July 24, 2011
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M8 Project Highlighted in the 2010 INCITE report
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INCITE recently released a compilation report of their greatest hits - a string of research achievements powered by INCITE-granted access to petascale systems. HPCWire,
August 4, 2011 SciDAC 2011 Report
- Mega Quake - Pacific Northwest M9 simulation presented on National Geographic's special earthquake-related world premiere in light of Japan's March 11 massive eqrthquake and the resulting tsunami barreling across the Pacific Ocean.
National Geographic Channel, March 13, 2011.
- 3-D Simulation Predicts LA Will Bear Brunt Of The "Big One" - new M8 movie released during SCEC annual meeting.
Discovery News, September 2010.
- TeraGrid Helps Make Possible Largest-Ever Earthquake Simulation - The scientific results of this massive simulation have allowed us to observe things that we were not able to see in the past
TeraGrid News, September 2010.
- Supercomputing Enables Largest-Ever Earthquake Simulation - for a Magnitude 8.0 (M8) rupture of the entire southern San Andreas fault.
Dr. Dobb's The World of Software Development, August 2010. See also The Orange County Register, UCSD News
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SDSC Leads Supercomputing Efforts in Creating Largest-Ever Earthquake Simulation - Magnitude 8.0 Simulation, Named a Gordon Bell Prize Finalist, Could Guide Emergency Planning
SDSC News, August 19.
- Earthquake Simulation Rocks Southern California - Jaguar raises the bar for modeling the next big shakeup
ORNL News, August 16, 2010. See also HPC Wire.
- "Scalable Earpthquake Simulation on Petascale Supercomputers" Named a ACM Gordon Bell Finalist - Joint work with USC, SDSU
and OSU on M8, a project coordinated by SCEC.
China Press News
- Preparing for the big one - NCSA works with group led by SCEC to run large earthquake simulations on Blue Waters and characterize seismic hazard risk.
NCSA News, April 21, 2010
- DOE INCITE Award 2010 - Department of Energy awarded scientists from SDSC 27 million core hours to the project titled "Deterministic Simulations of Large Regional Earthquakes at Frequencies up to 2 Hz".
UCSD News, February 2, 2010. See also HPC Wire.
Past news
- Wired Magazine, Top Science Breakthrough 2009, December 31, 2009
- Vizworld, SciDAC OASCR Winner, August 19, 2009
- HPC Wire, Kraken Super Passes Formal Acceptance, March 23, 2009
- China News, Pacific M9 Earthquake Simulation, March 11, 2009
- HPC Wire, DOE Awards Supercomputing Time to UCSD, SDSC, January 13, 2009
- International Science Grid This Week, Anticipating "The big one", February 4, 2009
- SDSC News, SDSC Enables PetaShake Simulation on 40,960 Processor IBM Blue Gene Watson System, November 6, 2006
- NCSA News, A Fair Shake for Seismologists, November 7, 2006
- SDSC News, SDSC Helps National Geographic Explore the "Big One", September 6, 2006
- National Geographic Channel, LA's Future Quake
, September 2006
- History Channel, LA's Killer Quake
, September 2006
- The Los Angeles Times, Computer Pictures 'the Big One', May 27, 2006
- HPC Wire, HPC Simulation Predicts Effect of Massive Earthquake, May 19, 2006
- International Science Grid This Week, Image of the Week: TeraShake-2 Simulation, February 2006
- HPC Wire, SDSC Hosts IEEE Visualization Design Contest
, February 2006
- National Geographic Channel, LA's Future Quake
, September 2006
- HPC Wire, Simulating Earthquakes for Science and Society, January 27, 2006
- SDSC News, Terashake 2: Simulating Earthquakes for Science and Society, January 23, 2006