About PSC

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
300 South Craig St., Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-268-4960
FAX: 412-268-5832

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is a joint effort of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh together with Westinghouse Electric Company. Established in 1986, PSC is supported by several federal agencies, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and private industry, and is a leading partner in XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment), the National Science Foundation cyberinfrastructure program.

Mission

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center provides university, government, and industrial researchers with access to several of the most powerful systems for high-performance computing, communications and data-handling available to scientists and engineers nationwide for unclassified research. PSC advances the state-of-the-art in high-performance computing, communications and informatics and offers a flexible environment for solving the largest and most challenging problems in computational science. As a leading partner in XSEDE, the National Science Foundation program of coordinated cyberinfrastructure for education and research, PSC works with its XSEDE partners to harness the full range of information technologies to enable discovery in U.S. science and engineering.

Partnerships

As a leading partner in XSEDE, PSC extends its active role in the development of NSF’s cyberinfrastructure program, which began in 2001 with early partnership in the TeraGrid. PSC-scientific co-director, Ralph Roskies is a co-principal investigator of XSEDE and co-leads its Advanced User Support Services. Other PSC staff lead XSEDE efforts in Networking, Incident Response, Systems & Software Engineering, Outreach, Allocations Coordination, and Novel & Innovative Projects. This NSF OCI funded program provides U.S. academic researchers with support for and access to leadership-class computing infrastructure and research.

XSEDE replaces and expands the TeraGrid project that started more than a decade ago. More than 10,000 scientists used the TeraGrid to complete thousands of research projects, at no cost to the scientists.

Other partners include Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, University of Washington, University of Utah, LexisNexus, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.

The National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, develops new algorithms, performs original research, and conducts training workshops, in addition to fostering collaborative projects and providing access to supercomputing resources to the national biomedical research community.

In partnership with the DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, West Virginia University, the West Virginia Governor's Office of Technology, the Institute for Scientific Research, Duquesne University, The Pennsylvania State University, and Waynesburg College, PSC provides resources to the SuperComputing Science Consortium, a regional partnership to advance energy and environment technologies through the application of high performance computing and communications.

PSC also partners with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to offer free grants of supercomputing time to researchers in Pennsylvania.

Corporate Affiliates

The PSC Corporate Affiliates Program has been providing world-class computing power and balanced infrastructure for industry for over a decade. The center provides an integrated array of services necessary for a company to approach problems previously viewed as beyond reach.