by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 9, 2021 | 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 PSC | May 19, 2021 | 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 | 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 | 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...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 30, 2021 | Press release
Above: The scientists’ simulation of damage-causing strain to brain tissues for sudden movements in the coronal direction (swaying the head from shoulder to shoulder). When using a measure that captured strain in any direction (MPS, in figure a), the estimated damage...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 29, 2021 | Neocortex, Press release
Cerebras’s Wafer Scale Engine, with a baseball for size comparison. Access and AI research begins on the new PSC Neocortex system, an advanced AI computing system for science and engineering that leverages Cerebras Systems’ revolutionary Wafer Scale Engine The...