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
• M8 Project Highlighted in the 2010 INCITE report - 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
• 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.

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