San Diego Supercomputer Center. Credit: SDSC External Relations.
Urban Electric Power announced this week that its rechargeable alkaline battery technology has been installed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego, replacing 20,000 pounds of toxic lead-acid batteries with a safer, environmentally friendly and cost-effective alternative, and more than doubling the available battery backup electricity.
SDSC has been an international leader in high-performance and data-intensive computing since its founding in 1985 with support from the National Science Foundation. SDSC hosts the research computing loads for the local campus, for other UC campuses, and for a number of research collaborators, both regionally and nationally, who work on topics of societal impact, including climate change and genomics. The massive computer…