by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 10, 2017 | Features
The National Science Foundation has approved the Phase 2 upgrade of the new Bridges supercomputer it funded at PSC. The enhanced system offers more speed, memory and data storage for investigators who have used supercomputers and those in fields that never before...
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 | Apr 9, 2017 | Features
PSC Public Health Symposium April 21, 2017 – 1pm 300 S Craig St, Pittsburgh PA April’s PSC Symposium Series focuses on Public Health Applications. The program will include an overview of the Public Applications team with research presentations to...
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 | 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
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 | 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 Deb Nigra | Feb 16, 2017 | Staff
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by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 8, 2017 | Features
Users Can Run Trinity RNA-Seq Assembly Jobs on XSEDE from Galaxy Main Researchers preparing de novo transcriptome assemblies via the popular Galaxy platform for data-intensive analysis now have transparent access to a premier HPC resource ideal for rapid assembly of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 30, 2017 | Features
PSC System Powers Libratus, and More Jan. 31, 2017 Watch the press conference at the Rivers Casino. In the “Brains vs. AI” competition at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, a CMU School of Computer Science artificial intelligence program—“AI”—called Libratus beat four...
