Spring 2019: PSC News in Brief

PSC Supplies Computation to Large Hadron Collider Group PSC is supplying computation for the world’s most powerful particle collider. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) scientists working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, in collaboration...

The Fingerprints of Survival

PSC Helps UCLA-Led Team Identify Genes Associated with Surviving Climate Change A UCLA-led team has found they can predict whether birds are vulnerable to climate change by comparing their genes to their changing environments. Using PSC’s Bridges system, Rachael Bay...

Dangerous Curves Ahead

Machine Learning Enables Scientists to Spot “Comma-Shaped Clouds,” Extreme Weather Meteorologists can get time-critical help in spotting dangerous cloud formations using artificial intelligence (AI), according to scientists at Penn State and AccuWeather...

Science Highlights Spring 19

Science Highlights Spring 2019 This issue of PSC Science Highlights features artificial intelligence research to provide earlier warnings of life-threatening storms; copying a trick used by monkey cells to protect people from the AIDS virus; and reading the...

Nystrom Named PSC Chief Scientist

Will Serve as Principal Scientific and Technical Adviser to PSC Director March 14, 2019 Nicholas Nystrom has been named chief scientist of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). In this newly created position, Nystrom will serve as the principal scientific...