PSC@SC09

Computing for a Changing World

Biocomputing, Sustainability, 3-D Internet

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is excited to be a part of SC09, the premier international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis.

Read below how PSC staff are actively involved in SC09 programming, and please stop by and see us in Booth 1501!

PSC Staff @SC09

  • Nick Nystrom
  • Nick, PSC's Director of Strategic Applications and a principal researcher on the POINT project, will assist in the tutorial "Productive Performance Engineering of Petascale Applications with POINT and VI-HPS" on Monday from 8:30am to 5pm.
    >> See page 128 in the SC09 Conference program.


  • Greg Foss
  • Greg, Scientific Visualization Specialist on the Strategic Applications staff, contributed to the poster "A Scalable Domain Decomposition Method for Ultra-Parallel Arterial Flow Simulations". Posters are on display all week in the Oregon Ballroom Lobby.
    >> See page 55 in the SC09 Conference program.


  • Michael Schneider
  • Michael, Senior Science Writer on the Public Information staff, will take part in a Birds-of-a-Feather discussion, "Communicating Virtual Science", on Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 7pm, in Room E147-148.
    >> See page 116 in the SC09 Conference program.


  • Anirban Jana
  • Anirban, Senior Scientific Specialist in the Scientific Applications and User Support group, will take part in the "ATIP First Workshop on HPC in India: Indigenous Hardware, Software, and Infrastructure Research" on Friday from 8:30am to 5pm, in Room E141-142.
    >> See page 135 in the SC09 Conference program.

Booth Highlights

  • Ante Up!
  • Try your hand at Texas Hold 'Em against Tartanian, the AI no-limit poker player.


  • Get Connected
  • Hear Ken Jordan from the Center for Simulation and Modeling (www.sam.pitt.edu) at the University of Pittsburgh discuss how the Center helps researchers and high-performance computing connect. Discover how scientists get assistance to leverage state-of-the-art hardware and software to tackle grand challenge problems at PSC as well as other TeraGrid facilities.


  • Advances in Research and Scientific Computing
  • Stop by our booth to see more PSC success stories in areas such as: earthquake simulation; biomedical computing, including microphysiology, volumetric visualization and structural biology; high performance networking; distributed filesystems; and efficient parallel storage systems.