by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
$7.6-Million NSF Grant to fund the Data Exacell, PSC’s Next-Generation System for Storing, Analyzing Big Data The term “Big Data” has become a buzzword. Like any buzzword, its definition is fairly malleable, carrying different meanings in research,...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
PSC RECEIVES FOUR NATIONAL AWARDS In November, PSC received top national honors in four categories of the 2013 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards. HPCwire, the premier trade publication for the high performance computing (HPC) community, announced the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
Anton shows how water leaving, re-entering potassium channel structure delays return to active state WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The potassium channel helps create electrical signals in nerve and muscle cells. This process goes awry in some irregular heartbeat...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
PSC Takes Lead in XSEDE Summer Research Experience Program Young career seekers in the high performance computing (HPC) field often face a familiar problem. You can’t get the job without experience. But another hitch confronts would-be “super computors”...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
Anton Simulations Reveal How Dangerous Bacteria Install Critical Proteins Why It’s Important In an era of diminishing antibiotic effectiveness, it’s no wonder that bacteria, how they live—and what molecular components they can’t live without—are an...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
PSC Advanced Networking Group Expands Networking Capabilities for Region, World In the era of “Big Data,” the challenge of moving the vastly expanded data volumes created and needed by today’s researchers has become central. The old network—the equivalent of an...
