Press release

James Barr von Oehsen Named Director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 20, 2023 | Press release

James Barr von Oehsen James Barr von Oehsen has been selected as the director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Von Oehsen is a leader in the fields of...

National Energy Technology Laboratory and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Pioneer First Ever Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation on Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine

by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 7, 2023 | Neocortex, Press release

Running on Cerebras CS-2 within PSC’s Neocortex, NETL Simulates Natural Convection with Multi-Hundred Million Cell Resolutions, Pointing the Way to More Powerful, Energy Efficient and Insightful Scientific Computing Cerebras Systems, the pioneer in high performance...

CMU Research Supported by PSC Wins Artificial Intelligence Award

by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 2, 2023 | Bridges-2, Press release

Tuomas Sandholm inspects PSC’s Bridges-2 supercomputer AAAI award cites Tuomas Sandholm’s work on improving organ donation exchanges with AI Tuomas Sandholm’s work since 2010 to improve the fairness and effectiveness of organ donations using PSC supercomputers...

$5.8 Million Grant Renews Pittsburgh-Led Project to Support National Goal of Mapping Human Brain

by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 16, 2022 | Press release

Mouse brain image showing several imaging modalities Five-year NIH funding scales up Brain Image Library to handle vastly increased data The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a total of $5.8 million over the next five years to a collaboration of...

PSC Receives International Honors for AI-Driven, Automated Discovery of MRI Agents and Control of Fluid-Flow Heat and Stress

by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 14, 2022 | Bridges-2, Press release

Thirteenth Year PSC Is Recognized by HPCwire Awards, Given to Leaders in the Global High Performance Computing Community Science performed with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s (PSC’s) advanced research computers has been recognized with two HPCwire Editors’...

$20 Million in Renewed Grants from NIH Will Provide Data Infrastructure and Leadership to International Collaboration to Map Human Body at Cellular Resolution

by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 15, 2022 | Collaborations, Press release

Four years of additional funding to PSC, Pitt, CMU and Stanford will provide the HuBMAP Consortium with data infrastructure and leadership in community engagement to build a human reference atlas Scientific teams in Pittsburgh and at Stanford will lead collaborations...