June 9,
1986: With its CRAY X-MP/48
installed and running at Westinghouse
Energy Center, PSC officially opens to researchers.
June 9,
1986: With its CRAY X-MP/48
installed and running at Westinghouse
Energy Center, PSC officially opens to researchers.
May 1987: ALCOA becomes PSC's first corporate partner.
September 1987: NIH awards PSC a three-year, $2.2 million grant to support supercomputing in biomedical research. PSC is the first supercomputing center to receive an NIH grant for this purpose.
November 1989: PSC user Gregory McRae wins the first Forefronts of Large-Scale Computation award for his computational modeling of large atmospheric systems.
April 1990: The Connection Machine CM-2, PSC's first massively parallel system, is installed.
August 1990: PSC receives a five-year $6.1 million grant from NIH to renew its program of support for supercomputing in biomedical research.
December 1990: PSC introduces the Andrew File System for use in high-performance computing.
February 1991: For the first time anywhere, PSC implements direct high-speed data transfer between heterogeneous supercomputing systems, the Y-MP and CM-2, demonstrating "superlinear" speedup on significant scientific applications.
November 1991: University of Pittsburgh
biologist John Rosenberg and three colleagues win the 1991 Forefronts of Large-Scale Computation award for their work at PSC on how proteins recognize and bind with DNA.
January 1992: The Connection Machine CM-5 is installed at WEC.
June 1992: Westinghouse wins the 1992 Computerworld-Smithsonian Award in science for its work with PSC.
October 1992: PSC is the first non-government site in the United States to receive a CRAY Y-MP C90.December 1992: PSC receives "grand challenge" research funding to collaborate with the Center for Light Microscope Imaging and Biotechnology on developing an Automated Interactive Microscope.
June 1993: PSC wins the 1993 Computerworld-Smithsonian Award for science.
June 1993: PSC, the University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Public Schools receive $2 million from NSF for Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh, a national pilot program to integrate computer networking into the K-12 educational curriculum of a large urban public school system.
September 1993: PSC unveils the world's first CRAY T3D system.
October 1993: PSC receives "grand challenge" funding to collaborate with scientists around the country on astrophysics research.
January 1994: The 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to PSC user Joseph H. Taylor for his 1974 discovery of the first binary pulsar. In research at PSC, Taylor has discovered more than 20 pulsars in three years.
June 1994: The 1994 Computerworld- Smithsonian award for Breakthrough Computational Science is awarded to PSC users Charles Peskin and David McQueen for their development of a three-dimensional computational model of blood flow in the heart.November 1994: PSC user Charles Peskin wins the 1994 Sidney Fernbach award for his modeling of blood flow in the heart.
September 1995: NIH awards $6 million to PSC to continue PSC's program of research and support for biomedical research.
November 1995: PSC user Paul
Woodward receives the 1995 Sidney
Fernbach award for his investigations of turbulent convection in the
sun.
April 1996: The world's first CRAY
T3E system is installed at PSC and begins running parallel applications.
May 1996: Four of five finalists for the 1996 Computerworld-Smithsonian award in science are collaborations with PSC, with the award going to the Center for Light Microscope Imaging and Biotechnology.
August 1996: PSC accepts the first production model of the CRAY T3E scalable parallel supercomputing system.
