by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 1, 2017 | Press release
Summer’s Up PSC Interns Advance AI, Cybersecurity, Computer Administration Sept. 1, 2017 On two dates in July and August 2017, PSC’s summer interns—a central part of the center’s educational mission—reported the results of their projects to the PSC staff. The...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 17, 2017 | Press release
Brain Function—What’s Next? A Conversation with David Hildebrand, Harvard University Aug. 17, 2017 The May 10, 2017, issue of the prestigious journal Nature featured an article by researchers at Harvard University and PSC that charted out the first “nano-scale”...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 26, 2017 | News
Nick Nystrom Appointed Interim Director of PSC July 27, 2017 Nick Nystrom, senior director of research at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), has been appointed interim director of the center. Nystrom succeeds Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies, who have been...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 8, 2017 | Press release
Bridging Students to STEM Skills “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin The future of employment is increasingly STEM-related. To prepare its students for higher-paying, computationally savvy jobs in...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 2, 2017 | Press release
Blue Acres? PSC, XSEDE Support Gene Assembly of Key Aquaculture Species May 2, 2017 Why It’s Important: Commercial abalone “aquaculture”—farming the shellfish in enclosures—has exploded over the past decade, becoming a $100-million global industry. Red abalone, a...
by Deb Nigra | Jan 5, 2017 | Publications
PSC Technical Reports Open Science Cyber Risk Profile (OSCRP) Peisert, Sean; Welch, Von; Adams, Andrew; Bevier, RuthAnne; Dopheide, Michael; LeDuc, Rich; Meunier, Pascal; Schwab, Steve; Stocks, Karen In a culmination of...