Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

 

Enabling discovery since 1986

PSC40: Powering Discovery

Join us in celebrating 40 years of PSC!

Violin Sims: Carbon Fiber Competitive with Wood

PSC40: CMU Project in 1988 Used PSC’s Cray Y-MP to Show Violin Top Plates of Carbon Perform Similarly to Norway Spruce

Sims Exploit AI to Advance Toward Workable Quantum Computer

Artificial Intelligence Improves Monte Carlo Simulations of Quantum Dots, Improving Accuracy of Storing and Reading Information

First Supercomputed Can Design Shaved Weight, Saved Money

PSC40: 1987 ALCOA Work with PSC Supercomputer Helped Set Stage for Industrial Supercomputing Design Revolution

Ralph Roskies: From Science to Supercomputing

PSC40: PSC’s Chris Csonka sat down with PSC co-founder Ralph Roskies to talk about his early days at PSC, its founding, and how he collaborated with Mike Levine and Jim Kasdorf

The PSC Learning Lab

Discover PSC’s New Self-Paced Learning Resources to Support Your HPC Journey

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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, or PSC, is a joint computational research center with Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh.

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Accelerate your research on Bridges-2,
our flagship supercomputer

Bridges-2 supercomputer

Our featured projects

PSC maintains advanced infrastructure to support
computation-heavy research in areas such as: data analytics, machine learning, bimolecular simulation, AI and deep learning, and provides access to the national cyberinfrastructure community of resources.

HuBMAP

The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program is developing the tools to create an open, global atlas of the human body at the cellular level.

Neocortex

Neocortex unlocks interactive AI development for rapidly evolving research and democratizes access to game-changing compute power.

Anton

National Anton Resource for biomolecular simulation, enabling investigations of important biological phenomena.

ACCESS

ACCESS is expanding the national research cyberinfrastructure ecosystem to include more researchers, scholars and scientific domains.

Bridges 2

Bridges-2 provides transformative capability for rapidly evolving, computation-intensive and data-intensive research, creating opportunities for collaboration and convergence research.

Want to help further our research?

Support the next big discovery or inspire the next class of great thinkers with a gift to our center.

Recent News from PSC

Accelerate your research on
Bridges-2, our newest supercomputer

Our Featured Projects

PSC maintains advanced infrastructure to support computation-heavy research in areas in: data analytics, machine learning, bimolecular simulation, AI and deep learning, and provides access to the national cyberinfrastructure community of resources.

HuBMAP

The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program is developing the tools to create an open, global atlas of the human body at the cellular level.

Neocortex

Neocortex unlocks interactive AI development for rapidly evolving research and democratizes access to game-changing compute power.

Anton 2

Anton 2 is a special purpose supercomputer for biomolecular simulation enabling investigations of important biological phenomena.

ACCESS

The ACCESS program provides an entry to the national research cyberinfrastructure ecosystem for researchers and scholars in all scientific domains.

Bridges 2

Bridges-2 provides transformative capability for rapidly evolving, computation-intensive and data-intensive research, creating opportunities for collaboration and convergence research.

Want to help further our research?

Support the next big discovery or inspire the next class of great thinkers with a gift to our center.