by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 17, 2017 | Science Highlights
The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread Zebrafish Study Reveals First Fine Structure of a Complete Vertebrate Brain. Despite decades of stunning advances in imaging the brain and measuring its activity, we still don’t understand how even a simple vertebrate brain...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 20, 2017 | Science Highlights
Identifying Cancer DNA Changes with XSEDE/PSC Resources The scientific field of bioinformatics has for the past five years relied on increasingly larger data sets for new and innovative research. With few in the field trained in computer science, many groups, like the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 18, 2017 | Science Highlights
From the Directors Welcome to the new PSC Science Highlights! This first issue of our new format highlights a number of success stories in our ongoing mission to enable and support computationally dependent research in traditional and emerging fields, including...
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 | 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...
