PSC Featured in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PITTSBURGH, April 4, 2011 — The Sunday, April 3 issue of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette includes a full-page editorial article by the three people who co-authored the proposal that led the National Science Foundation to fund the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 25 years ago.

   

PSC scientific co-directors Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies (left) and director of special projects James Kasdorf

The OpEd, by PSC's scientific directors Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies and PSC director of special projects James Kasdorf, is aimed at non-scientist readers. It outlines what's meant by “supercomputing” and discusses some of PSC's accomplishments.

You can read the article, here: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11093/1136305-109.stm


About PSC:
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 partner in the National Science Foundation TeraGrid program.