by Ken Chiacchia | May 4, 2017 | 2017Press
The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread? Zebrafish Study Reveals First Fine Structure of a Complete Vertebrate Brain May 10, 2017 Zebrafish larva head in cross-section. Note this isn’t a single electron microscope image, but many thousands of slices seen on edge. The large...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 28, 2017 | 2017Press
Modest Increase in Kids’ Exercise May Yield Outsized Benefits May 2, 2017 Getting just a few more American kids to run and play for 25 minutes three times a week could have outsized benefits in reducing obesity and save tens of billions of dollars, according to...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 24, 2017 | 2017Press
Heat Stable Vaccines Could Save Lives, Money April 26, 2017 Health care workers in low-income nations often have to deliver vaccines on rugged footpaths, via motorcycle or over river crossings. On top of this, vaccines need to be kept refrigerated or they may degrade...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 8, 2017 | 2017Press
Users Can Run Trinity RNA-Seq Assembly Jobs on XSEDE from Galaxy Main Researchers preparing de novo transcriptome assemblies via the popular Galaxy platform for data-intensive analysis now have transparent access to a premier HPC resource ideal for rapid assembly of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 30, 2017 | 2017Press
PSC System Powers Libratus, and More Jan. 31, 2017 Watch the press conference at the Rivers Casino. In the “Brains vs. AI” competition at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, a CMU School of Computer Science artificial intelligence program—“AI”—called Libratus beat four...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 8, 2017 | 2017Press
Upgrade of PSC’s Big Data System Now in Production Jan. 9, 2017 The Phase 2 Upgrade of the Bridges supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has been approved by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which funded the project. The approval makes new...