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San Diego Supercomputer Center
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<p><a href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=San_Diego_Supercomputer_Center¶ms=32.884437_N_117.239465_W_">32°53′04″N 117°14′22″W / 32.884437°N 117.239465°W / 32.884437; -117.239465</a> </p><p>The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is an organized research unit of the <a href="/facts/University_of_California%2c_San_Diego/srMClpNv">University of California, San Diego</a>. Founded in 1985, it was one of the five original <a href="/facts/National_Science_Foundation_Network/b95QF5hR">NSF supercomputing centers</a>. </p><p>Its research pursuits are <a href="/facts/High_performance_computing/HT9NwGAN">high performance computing</a>, <a href="/facts/Grid_computing/2GQhzN5l">grid computing</a>, <a href="/facts/Computational_biology/GxgNfwcX">computational biology</a>, <a href="/facts/Geoinformatics/ebt81mmf">geoinformatics</a>, <a href="/facts/Computational_physics/1ltJ109X">computational physics</a>, <a href="/facts/Computational_chemistry/KyuCgRV3">computational chemistry</a>, <a href="/facts/Data_management/Cykeqxc7">data management</a>, <a href="/facts/Scientific_visualization/p0yPc1X5">scientific visualization</a>, <a href="/facts/Cyberinfrastructure/QwhPPWq0">cyberinfrastructure</a>, and <a href="/facts/Computer_network/3w5RM99p">computer networking</a>. SDSC computational biosciences contributions and earth science and genomics computational approaches are internationally recognized. </p><p> The current SDSC director is Frank Würthwein, Ph.D., UC San Diego physics professor and a founding faculty member of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute of UC San Diego. Würthwein assumed the role in July 2021. He succeeded Michael L. Norman, also a physics professor at UC San Diego, and who was the SDSC director since September 2010.</p>