by Chris Csonka | Mar 26, 2026 | Anniversary, Features, Inside PSC, Staff
Beverly Clayton, PSC Executive Director, with PSC Founders Ralph Roskies and Mike Levine. Recognized as one of 35 HPC Legends in 2025 by HPC Wire magazine, Beverly Clayton served as Executive Director of PSC from 1986 to 2006 and has the distinction of being the first...
by Chris Csonka | Mar 5, 2026 | Anniversary, Features, Inside PSC, Staff
Ken Hackworth, Senior Allocations Manager, PSC. Ken Hackworth talks about his storied career at PSC, starting as a student, ultimately hiring, working with, and helping shape the careers of dozens of PSC interns, many of whom still work at the center. PSC40:...
by Chris Csonka | Jan 14, 2026 | Anniversary, Features, Inside PSC, Staff
Ralph Roskies, PSC founder and co-director. Photo credit: Tom Altany/University of Pittsburgh PSC’s Chris Csonka sat down with PSC co-founder Ralph Roskies to talk about his early days at PSC, its founding, and how he collaborated with Mike Levine and Jim Kasdorf...
by Chris Csonka | Dec 20, 2024 | Features, Inside PSC, Staff
Listing out PSCer’s who are on the team because of Deb Nigra quickly calls for webs and flow charts to get it all straight. Six Degrees of Deb Nigra PSC Interns – Where Are They Now? Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has hosted interns and employed...
by Emily Voelker | Sep 5, 2024 | Features, Inside PSC, Staff
Here at PSC, we’re extremely proud to say that PEARC24 was chaired by PSC Director Barr von Oehsen and former PSC Director Shawn T. Brown. No one at PSC has worked with PEARC longer, however, than Ken Hackworth, Senior Manager of the Allocations group at PSC, and a...
by PSC | Sep 16, 2021 | Features, Inside PSC
For some people starting a new job in the middle of a pandemic would be a disheartening experience—not seeing or meeting any of your coworkers except via Zoom could be lonely and a bit depressing. But not so for Ivan Cao-Berg who hit the ground running on his...
