San Diego infrastructure

Rediscover the Excitement of UC San Diego at Triton Day

Currently there are 144 fibers tunneling into Atkinson Hall, and 36 fibers into the main 2,000-square-foot Calit2 server room, plus additional fiber into an adjacent room where Calit2 network research equipment is located. From here, Calit2 researchers have access to the main campus networks, as well as regional (CENIC’s CalREN, HPR and XD networks, and [...]

Viewing Research Bandwidth Through A New Prism

Currently there are 144 fibers tunneling into Atkinson Hall, and 36 fibers into the main 2,000-square-foot Calit2 server room, plus additional fiber into an adjacent room where Calit2 network research equipment is located. From here, Calit2 researchers have access to the main campus networks, as well as regional (CENIC’s CalREN, HPR and XD networks, and [...]

Engineers Develop Techniques to Improve Efficiency of Cloud Computing Infrastructure

Jason Mars, a professor of computer science at the Jacobs School of Engineering. Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, and Google have developed a novel approach that allows the massive infrastructure powering cloud computing to run more efficiently. The new approach can make these warehouse-scale computers run as much as 15 to [...]

Expanding Toll Market Drives New Hiring at HNTB Corporation

HNTB has continually led the tolling industry with a series of firsts. The future of the nation’s roads – and the engineers who design them – may well be paved by tolls. Earlier this year Congress passed the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, which authorizes federal highway and transit investment through [...]

Vice Chancellor Haymet to Retire from Administrative Roles at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Following six years of service as Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences and Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Tony Haymet has announced his decision to retire from his administrative duties on January 1, 2013.   He will remain a Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego. “Tony Haymet furthered enhanced the stature of Scripps Institution of Oceanography [...]

AIS Announces Lunarpages Contract Renewal & Expanded Working Relationship

Lunarpages Internet Solutions AIS (American Internet Services), a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, cloud and connectivity services, today announced Web hosting firm Lunarpages, a leading provider of fully managed web hosting services with over 150,000 customers, has just signed a contract renewal that continues their long-standing business relationship in support of Lunarpages’ enterprise clients [...]

SDSC’s CAIDA Internet Research Group Awarded Cybersecurity Contract

Department of Homeland Security Announces 34 Contracts The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded a contract for cybersecurity research and development by the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T).

NSF Renews Funding for National OpenTopography Project

Internet-based High-Resolution Topographic Data Facility Led by SDSC and ASU LiDAR-derived image of Meteor Crater, AZ. Color bands show range of elevations from 1541 meters at the bottom of the crater, to a maximum of 1835 meters on the crater rim. Image courtesy of Barrett Salisbury (ASU), with data collected for Marisa Palucis (UC Berkeley) [...]

From the Cloud to the Swarm: SRC and DARPA Award $27.5 Million to Nine-Campus Consortium

Jacobs School of Engineering computer science professor Tajana Simunic Rosing University of California, San Diego computer science and engineering professor Tajana Simunic Rosing is leading the university’s participation in a nine-campus consortium to build a TerraSwarm Research Center. The center will address the huge potential (and associated risks) of pervasive integration of smart, networked sensors [...]

Metasploit Exploit Demonstrated Against a Model Train Set Controlled by an Allen-Bradley MicroLogix PLC at NERC GridSecCon 2012

Cortana Script Faulting a Discovered MicroLogix Controller NERC hosted its second Grid Security Conference (GridSecCon 2012) on October 16-18 in San Diego. The conference brought together industry and government security professionals to discuss grid security concerns, trends, and best practices. The conference covered topics including emerging industrial control system security issues, social engineering and spear [...]

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