by Deb Nigra | Oct 28, 2016 | Science Highlights
Welcome to the Fall 2015 edition of People. Science. Collaboration. This summer we marked a significant transition at PSC: We retired the Blacklight system, and in October will begin constructing the new, National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Bridges system...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 7, 2016 | Science Highlights
Gut Check Bridges Reveals Interaction between Diabetes and Digestive-Tract Microbes Sept. 7, 2016 Why It’s Important: Many people appreciate how serious diabetes is: it can cause blindness, nerve pain and lack of circulation in the limbs that leads to...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 13, 2016 | Science Highlights
Wild Things Bridges Connects Evolutionary Biologists with Genomes of Wild Species July 13, 2016 Why the Sumatran Rhinoceros Is Important Depressing but true: things don’t look good for the Sumatran rhinoceros. This unique tropical species is all but extinct in the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 1, 2016 | Science Highlights
Island Time Extended Simulation on Anton Shows How Cell-Surface Molecules Cluster Why It’s Important: Virtually every process in human health and disease relies on signals getting across cell membranes—the flexible “bags” that enclose the contents...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 4, 2016 | Science Highlights
BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE Bridges Will Bring high performance Computing and Data Analysis to New Fields In 2016, PSC’s newest supercomputer, Bridges, will go online. The $9.65-million, NSF-funded Bridges represents the culmination of lessons learned from PSC’s Blacklight...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 4, 2016 | Science Highlights
News in Brief DXC EXPANDS SCOPE PSC’s Data Exacell (DXC) pilot project has increased the community of researchers who can use the system and the scope of projects it can serve by adding new hardware and software resources. The DXC team added data storage to the...
