by Megan Carroll | Jul 12, 2021 | News, Press release
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has granted PSC $500,000 in its annual budget, signed by Governor Tom Wolf in late June. PSC received an appropriation of $500,000 in the 2021-22 PA budget recently signed by Governor Wolf. This inclusion within the Department of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 15, 2021 | News, Press release, Science Highlights
bridges & bridges-2 Power discovery of two-x-chromosome male voles The Way This Rodent Species Determines Sex Differs from All Other Mammals Known by Ken Chiacchia Sex can be complicated. In creeping voles, a small rodent in the Pacific Northwest, it’s even more...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 9, 2021 | Inside PSC, News, Press release
PSC’s founding scientific directors, Michael Levine (left) and Ralph Roskies, with the center’s Cray X-MP. Today the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) celebrated the 35th anniversary of its first supercomputer. The National Science Board approved...
by Vivian Benton | May 19, 2021 | News, Press release
The McWilliams Center for Cosmology Seed Grant program supports faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and research staff who want to explore a new area of research and/or jumpstart their research activity. The program is designed to encourage genuine collaborations between...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 8, 2021 | News, Press release
Deadline for proposals for current allocation period is April 15 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved PSC’s new Bridges-2 system for production operations. PSC offers time on the NSF-funded, advanced research computing platform to researchers performing...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 31, 2021 | News, Press release
PSC Director Shawn Brown has been appointed vice chancellor for research computing at the University of Pittsburgh. Make no mistake: Brown remains director of PSC. He’s ours, we’re keeping him. Brown’s new appointment continues PSC’s strengthening relations with both...
