HIV Protein Switch May Help Virus Squeeze into Host Cell Nucleus

by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 21, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights

The pointed end of HIV’s outer viral shell, its capsid, helps it squeeze into host cells’ nuclear pore. A team from Pitt has simulated the virus in PSC’s Bridges-2 to show how a twist in a critical protein may help it shoehorn in. Based on a figure from Yang DT et al....

New Nodes Added to Bridges-2

by PSC | Jan 30, 2025 | Bridges-2, Resources for Educators, Systems, User News, What's new on Bridges-2

PSC is pleased to announce that the Bridges-2 team just added ten (10) additional nodes to Bridges-2! These HPE Cray 670 nodes, each with eight (8) H100-SXM5-80GB GPUs and 2 TB node memory, are interconnected by a high-performance Infiniband network to the Bridges-2...

Bridges-2 Simulations Show Impact of Rocket Exhaust Water on Moon’s Ice Reservoirs

by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 22, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights

A visualization of the Moon’s Clavius crater. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio. Visualizer Ernie Wright (USRA), Technical support Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.), Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.) Previous Missions Did Not Add...

PSC Interns to Represent U.S. at International Student Competition

by Ken Chiacchia | Dec 18, 2024 | Bridges-2, Intern news, News, Press release

Benchmark Beasts Team to Compete at ISC25 Conference in Hamburg, Germany A team of interns from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has been selected to represent the United States next year at an international high performance computing (HPC) competition for...

Penn State Team Uses AI to Predict Dozens of Undiscovered Metal Nanoparticles

by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 25, 2024 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights

Certain numbers of metal atoms can assemble into stable nanoparticles with symmetrical, crystalline shapes. Even more interesting are the irregular or unstable shapes that arise with the numbers in between. Adobe Stock 261656757 New Structures, Simulated and Studied...

Parkinson’s Research, Evolution of Vocalization, AI Training Tool, and National AI Collaboration Underlie Four HPCwire Awards to PSC

by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 19, 2024 | AI, Bridges-2, Collaborations, HPCWire Awards, NAIRR, Neocortex, News, Press release

High Performance Computing Achievements Recognized by Peers, Editors of Leading Trade Press Magazine at SC24 Conference in Atlanta A promising new avenue for treating Parkinson’s disease, an amazing genetic commonality among very different species that learn how to...