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NSF Awards $2.8M to PSC for World's Largest Coherent Shared-Memory System
[2010.07.29]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has partially funded the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) to acquire a system that features SGI’s (NASDAQ:SGI) newest scalable, shared-memory computing system and associated disks. The SGI® Altix® UV system features extremely large, coherent shared-memory and opens a new computational capability for U.S. scientists and engineers.
Partnership of Supercomputing Centers Announces NSF XD TIS Award
[2010.06.28]
A team of four U.S. advanced computing centers today announced that it has begun work on the National Science Foundation (NSF) eXtreme Digital (XD) Technology Insertion Service (TIS) award, an $8.9 million, five-year project. XD TIS is a major Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) program dedicated to evaluating and recommending new technologies for HPC systems and other resources as part of the NSF TeraGrid and its follow-on initiative, XD.
Allegheny County Executive Onorato Visits PSC
[2010.06.23]
Allegheny County Executive and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Dan Onorato visited the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) on June 23, 2010. He met with PSC scientific directors Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies, was briefed on PSC economic and educational value to the Commonwealth, and spoke with PSC staff at a press conference in which he highlighted the role of university-centered innovation in economic growth.
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Will Host Specialized Machine for Biomolecular Research
[2010.05.05]
With stimulus funding from NIH, the National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will soon be accepting proposals for biomedical researchers to use a novel special-purpose supercomputer for biomolecular simulation that is being made available without cost by D. E. Shaw Research.
PSC Researcher Manages Image Data for First Pittsburgh GigaPan
[2010.04.30]
Art Wetzel, PSC principal computer scientist, has collaborated with David Bear of Carnegie Mellon's Studio for Creative Inquiry (SCI) in creating the first Pittsburgh Gigapanorama.
PSC and MAGPI Deliver Cyber-Safety Training in Pennsylvania
[2010.02.15]
SAFE-Net, a program of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, funded by the National Science Foundation, has reached across Pennsylvania to raise awareness about safe practices in use of the Internet.
H1N1 Modeling Suggests Short-Term School Closures May Not Help
[2010.01.19]
Closing schools for less than two weeks during a flu pandemic may increase infection rates and prolong an epidemic, according to results from computational modeling using TeraGrid resources at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC).
H1N1 Research at PSC Wins "Top Supercomputing Achievement" Award
[2009.11.16]
The HPCWire Readers' Choice Award recognized PSC's work as part
of the National Institutes of Health's Models of Infectious Disease Agent
Study (MIDAS) project, which supports research to simulate disease spread
and evaluate intervention strategies.
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Introduces SAFE-Net
[2009.11.10]
SAFE-Net, a program of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, funded by the National Science Foundation, raises awareness about safe practices in use of the Internet.
PSC on TV: PSC Scientist Demonstrates Model of H1N1 Outbreak in Pittsburgh
[2009.10.08]
WTAE-TV journalist Michelle Wright interviewed PSC scientist Shawn Brown about his modeling of the spread of the H1N1 virus in Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh and surrounding communities in the metropolitian area, and Brown demonstrated the model on camera for viewers.
Social Security Number Vulnerability Findings Relied on Supercomputing
[2009.7.08]
Access to a large-scale parallel system at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center made it possible to overcome difficulties and greatly accelerated time to solution.
