by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 10, 2017 | Science Highlights
GUT CHECK While diabetes poses many life- and limb-threatening problems, it also causes serious changes and problems in the digestive tract. A study using PSC’s Bridges system sifted through the DNA of thousands of microbe species in healthy and diabetic intestines to...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 20, 2017 | Science Highlights
MORE POWER TO US If everyone used electricity at a constant rate, generating power would be simple. But spikes in use lead to under-utilized power and ultimately increased costs. Scientists used PSC’s Bridges and former Greenfield systems to understand the economic...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 20, 2017 | Science Highlights
HOOKED UP A common way for proteins to hold themselves together is with disulfide bridges. But scientists don’t completely understand why some proteins need them to “hook up” their structure. Researchers used the DESRES Anton system hosted at PSC to discover the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 20, 2017 | AI, Bridges, Science Highlights
Artificial intelligence (AI) has reached a new level, with an AI poker program beating four of the top specialists in “heads-up, no-limit Texas hold’em” poker. “Libratus,” powered by PSC’s Bridges supercomputer, is a first step in AIs that can handle “imperfect...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 20, 2017 | Science Highlights
PSC in Brief PSC Projects Earn 2016 HPCwire Awards Intensive Approach May Help Diversify Bioinformatics Making Big Data DANCE(S) Galaxy Gateway Offers Transparent Access to PSC’s Bridges PSC Projects Earn 2016 HPCwire Awards Two PSC projects were cited in...
by Ken Chiacchia | Dec 8, 2016 | Science Highlights
More Power to Us Greenfield, Bridges Models Pinpoint Inefficiencies in Electric Power Storage Why It’s Important: If everyone used electricity at a constant rate, generating power would be simple. Generators that supply a fixed level of energy would be fairly cheap to...
