Bridges HPC System Retires After Five Super Years

From the vastness of neutron-star collisions to the raw power of incoming tsunamis to the tiny, life-and-death details of how COVID-19 progresses, the Bridges platform at PSC has seen it all. Now Bridges has taken its final bow, ceding the title of PSC’s flagship high-performance computing (HPC) system to the larger, more advanced Bridges-2.

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AI Uses Language Rules to Simulate Molecular Motions on Bridges

A team from the University of Maryland used natural language processing artificial intelligence (AI) on our Bridges platform to recreate known chemistry, showing that AI may be able to reduce molecular dynamics to rules of grammar and syntax. Better predictions of molecular motions could lead to improved vaccines, drugs, and any number of improved industrial chemical processes.

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PSC Coronavirus Updates

With the nation—and the world—disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, we at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) would like to offer our wishes for safety and health for all. To do our part in protecting the country’s wellbeing, we have been working with a national alliance of high-performance computing resources called the COVID-19 HPC Consortium.

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