by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 3, 2024 | Anton 2, Research, Science Highlights
This image shows the complexity of simulating the functional movements of the voltage-sensitive phosphatase’s motions. Anton 2 enables scientists to reproduce the movements of the protein’s components, as well as the lipids (grey, with the headgroups colored), water...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 24, 2024 | AI, Bridges-2, Science Highlights
A prompt for Mexican dancers from an AI image generator produced the strange ballerinas at left; a new CMU-designed filter makes the image more appropriate and realistic, right. Image credit: Zhixuan Liu, Jean Oh, et al. 2024. SCoFT: Self-Contrastive Fine-Tuning for...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 6, 2024 | Bridges-2, Neocortex, News, Press release, User News, What's new on Bridges-2
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Bridges-2 supercomputer is now available to scientists through the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot Project, joining the center’s Neocortex AI system in the second-round call for research proposals by a National...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 2, 2024 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Developing blood clot, with fibrin “cables” (yellow), being pulled together by platelets (off-white). Clots that trap more red blood cells (red) may not contract as effectively, slowing healing. Adobe Stock image: 240_F_453411695_2N2Jddctb1vWwqowio9hVtKoNrZ76X65.jpg...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 26, 2024 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Simulated bacteria growing on a flat surface (left) versus on a sphere (right). The simulation recreates the growth of real bacteria raised in the lab; it also shows that when the microbes grow on progressively smaller curved surfaces, the areas of alignment become...