Damien Parson

San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Mission: To advance the frontiers of science, technology, education, and society through innovations in data and computing. Vision: SDSC is a global leader in delivering integrated data and computing solutions that enable translational research, multi-sector partnerships, and workforce development. Summary: Located at UC San Diego, SDSC engages millions of researchers, educators, students, and multi-sector partners every year through its five key areas of expertise: Computing Systems and Infrastructure; Turning Bytes into Knowledge; Accelerating Science through Training, Application, and User Support; Translating Research into Impacts; and Virtual Environments for Science. SDSC operates within three geographic scopes: National – responding to the needs of a range of domestic stakeholders and federal agencies; State – protecting the California way of life with approaches to managing wildfires, drought, extreme weather and earthquake disasters; and University of California (UC) – providing the UC system and UC San Diego faculty and staff with computational and data resources to accelerate discovery. See the SDSC website at https://www.sdsc.edu/index.html for details.