by Erica Anderson | Apr 14, 2025 | Employment
Carnegie Mellon University is a private, global research university that stands among the world’s most renowned educational institutions. With ground-breaking brain science, path-breaking performances, creative start-ups, big data, big ambitions, hands-on learning,...
by Emily Voelker | Apr 11, 2025 | Anton, Anton 3, Resources, Resources for Educators, Systems
Anton is a special-purpose supercomputer for biomolecular simulation, designed and constructed by D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES), that can perform molecular dynamics simulations roughly 100 times faster than any other general-purpose supercomputer. With the latest,...
by Emily Voelker | Apr 9, 2025 | Neocortex, Neocortex events, Training
Neocortex Spring 2025 Webinar Presented on April 9, 2025, by Paola Buitrago, PSC’s Director of Artificial Intelligence & Big Data, and the AI & Big Data team. This webinar was presented as a part of the ByteBoost program, and provides a system...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 8, 2025 | AI, Neocortex, Neocortex events, News, Press release
PSC has once again partnered with its NSF-funded ACCESS partners Stony Brook University and Texas A&M University to host the ByteBoost Cybertraining Program. This initiative will focus on supporting researchers to use the technologies of three NSF-supported...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 7, 2025 | Anton, Anton 2, Science Highlights
Adobe Stock 508244320 “Tucking In” of Viral Capsid Protein Allows Passage of Giant Structure through Nuclear Pore, Allowing Virus to Take Over The hepatitis B virus causes about 800,000 deaths per year, on par with HIV and the malaria parasite. However, as it spreads,...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 19, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Adobe Stock 270629805 Number and Type of Mutations Relate to Risk of Death at Earlier Age, Suggesting Focus for Future Detection and Prevention Sudden death in children is rare but devastating. A team led from Northwestern University used PSC’s flagship Bridges-2...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 14, 2025 | HuBMAP, News, Press release, Research, Resources
Paper in Nature Methods Charts Latest Progress, Use of HRA for Studying Human Body Across Scales Coverage and Quality of the Human Reference Atlas (HRA): Experts from many fields of science around the globe have constructed and use the HRA; the HRA Dashboard shows the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 5, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Adobe Stock 138718634 AI Tool Would Enable Industry to Predict Temperatures that Require Maintenance or Repair, Improving Safety and Making Repairs Less Expensive Continuously welded rails were a cost game-changer in the railway industry, which contributes over $27...
by Erica Anderson | Feb 26, 2025 | Internships
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is a joint computational research center with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Established in 1986, PSC is supported by several federal agencies, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and private industry. We are...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 21, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
The pointed end of HIV’s outer viral shell, its capsid, helps it squeeze into host cells’ nuclear pore. A team from Pitt has simulated the virus in PSC’s Bridges-2 to show how a twist in a critical protein may help it shoehorn in. Based on a figure from Yang DT et al....
