by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 20, 2023 | Press release
James Barr von Oehsen James Barr von Oehsen has been selected as the director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Von Oehsen is a leader in the fields of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 15, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
The two, massive neutron stars merge with a great gravitational clang — but little electromagnetic signal gets out. Scientists had not predicted absence of electromagnetic signal in 2019 detection A collision of two massive neutron stars detected by gravity-wave...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 7, 2023 | Neocortex, Press release
Running on Cerebras CS-2 within PSC’s Neocortex, NETL Simulates Natural Convection with Multi-Hundred Million Cell Resolutions, Pointing the Way to More Powerful, Energy Efficient and Insightful Scientific Computing Cerebras Systems, the pioneer in high performance...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 2, 2023 | AI, Bridges-2, Press release
Tuomas Sandholm inspects PSC’s Bridges-2 supercomputer AAAI award cites Tuomas Sandholm’s work on improving organ donation exchanges with AI Tuomas Sandholm’s work since 2010 to improve the fairness and effectiveness of organ donations using PSC supercomputers...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 1, 2023 | AI, Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Bridges-2-powered AI matches life-critical performance of other AI and non-AI alternatives — unlike them, its “thinking” is understandable to humans Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed our lives, giving us a tool for vastly better-informed decision making....