Fall 2015: News in Brief

News in Brief DXC EXPANDS SCOPE  PSC’s Data Exacell (DXC) pilot project has increased the community of researchers who can use the system and the scope of projects it can serve by adding new hardware and software resources. The DXC team added data storage to the...

Fall 2015: Securing the CHAIN

SECURING THE CHAIN WITH TRINITY Shrimp Transcriptome Offers Secure Future Food Source, Better Understanding of Ocean Food Chain WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Litopenaeus vannamei, the whiteleg shrimp, is the number one human food source from the sea. Over a million tons...

PSC Nets Two HPCwire Awards

PSC Recognized for Sixth Year in a Row in HPCwire Editor’s Choice, Reader’s Choice Awards Nov. 17, 2015 The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and its collaborators have once again been recognized for excellence in developing and applying HPC technologies to problems of...

Grant for Improved Network Diagnosis and Repair

Improved Network Diagnosis and Repair Goal of NSF Grant Nov. 12, 2015 A proposed automated system will allow users to provide network administrators with information about faulty connections, greatly speeding network diagnosis and repair. This system, to be called...

Genome center wins NSF funding renewal

Genome analysis center wins National Science Foundation funding renewal US scientists to have better access to computational tools, resources to analyze big data Nov. 10, 2015 The National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS) at Indiana University has received...