by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 15, 2026 | Anniversary, Science Highlights
“Pop art”: The Pittsburgh-based Alcoa Corporation used the Cray X-MP supercomputer to design the beverage can we know today. Credit: Emily Voelker/PSC 1987 Alcoa Work with PSC Supercomputer Helped Set Stage for Industrial Supercomputing Design Revolution...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 14, 2026 | Anton, Science Highlights
DNA strand wrapped around a series of protein-based nucleosomes (left) and an isolated nucleosome (right). DNA is orange, protein blue. Adobe stock. Simulations on Anton at PSC Suggest Cancer Mutations in Nucleosomes May Affect DNA Accessibility In our cells, over six...
by Ken Chiacchia | Dec 18, 2025 | Anton, Anton 3, Science Highlights
Atrial fibrillation is a disruption of the heart’s rhythm that can lead to life-threatening conditions. Simulations with Anton at PSC Show How Positive-Negative Pairing in Protein Is Broken, Opening A Membrane Channel Too Soon that May Contribute to Atrial...
by Ken Chiacchia | Dec 4, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
A BlueTides simulation of galaxy formation (centered on massive dark matter halos, top row, and on massive black holes, bottom row) at a distance from Earth so far away that the light would be roughly 12 to 13 billion years old. The image shows the gas density field...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 14, 2025 | Anton, Anton 2, Science Highlights
T and B white blood cells, central actors in the immune system’s response to microbes thanks to the Syk protein. Simulations on Anton Supercomputer Hosted at PSC Show How Critical Immune Protein Interaction May Be Disrupted The spleen tyrosine kinase (Syk) protein is...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 29, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
The nebula LMC N44C in the Large Magellanic Cloud, as shown by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, J. Maíz Apellániz Using BEAST Analytical Tool Running on Bridges-2, Multinational Team Analyzes Millions of Distant Stars at Once We...
