by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 24, 2026 | Bridges-3, News, Press release, Resources, Systems
NSF-Funded Bridges-3 Will Continue Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Focus on High-Performance Computing, Serving National Research and Education Goals A $10-million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to build...
by Chris Csonka | Jun 23, 2026 | Anniversary, Features, Inside PSC, Staff
Summer 2024 interns on their last day at PSC, with Ben on the far left. Ben Nalevanko, former PSC intern, sat down with Chris Csonka to talk about his time at the center and catch up with what he’s doing now. PSC40: Powering Discovery 2026 marks 40 years of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 10, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Moiré superlattices make use of the phenomenon the moiré pattern, in which the wave interference of two similar patterns create new, often mesmerizing and undulating patterns. Wigner Crystals’ Behavior Charted and Compared with Theory, Providing New Tool for Studying...
by Erica Anderson | May 28, 2026 | Employment
Carnegie Mellon University is a private, global research university that stands among the world’s most renowned education institutions. With ground-breaking brain science, path-breaking performances, creative start-ups, big data, big ambitions, hands-on learning, and...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 28, 2026 | Anniversary, Science Highlights
PSC’s Cray T3D Stretched Warning from Half an Hour to Six Hours, Fine Tuning Prediction to Cover Local Storms In 1995, severe-weather predictions could only give about half an hour’s warning. That’s not much of a heads-up for travelers on the road, airports shuffling...
by Chris Csonka | May 20, 2026 | Anniversary, Features, Inside PSC, Staff
Robin and the PSC team at SC25. Robin Scibek sat down with Chris Csonka to talk about her journey from Computer Science student at the University of Pittsburgh to Communications Director at PSC. PSC40: Powering Discovery 2026 marks 40 years of PSC. As we...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 11, 2026 | Bridges-2, Keystone AI, NAIRR, Neocortex, News, Press release
Bridges-2 PSC received two supplemental funding grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) extending the operation of its flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer for a total additional two years. These awards are funding the national-capacity computing resource to...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 7, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
World2Rules Uses Robotics Institute’s Amelia-42 Dataset to Learn Rules for Identifying Collision Risks that Humans Can Understand In managing airport traffic, small errors can cause catastrophe. Today at a NASA symposium in Los Angeles, a group from the CMU Robotics...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 22, 2026 | AI, Collaborations, Keystone AI, News, Press release
PSC Joins with Pennsylvania’s Seven R1 Universities & Commonwealth Leaders to Launch Initiative In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Pennsylvania’s seven research-intensive universities have joined forces with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 22, 2026 | Anniversary, Science Highlights
Computer simulations of the heart have come a long way. In 1993, scientists used PSC’s Cray C90 to make a breakthrough that laid the foundations for today’s cutting-edge simulations. Early Access on CRAY C90 in 1993 Ironed Out Problems in Early Heart Model...
