Poker Pros Face Artificial Intelligence

Upping The Ante: Top Poker Pros Face Off With Artificial Intelligence 20-Day Contest at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh Begins Jan. 11 Jan. 4, 2017 Four of the world’s best professional poker players will match wits with an artificial intelligence developed by Carnegie...

Fall 2015: From the Directors

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...

Data Jam

Data Jam The goal of the Data Jam is to introduce Pittsburgh high school students to big data and data analytics, to better understand its impact on their lives as individuals and to raise awareness of new career options created by the advent of big data....

N.C. High School to Use Bridges

N.C. High School to Use Bridges for Computational Chemistry Projects Sept. 27, 2016 The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM), a public high school for academically talented juniors and seniors from across the state, has received an allocation on...

Bridges Enters Production

Bridges Supercomputer Enters Production NSF Deems PSC’s HPC+Big Data Computational Resource Operational Allocations Available Aug. 31, 2016 The Bridges system at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) entered production operations last month, in support of...

Grable Grant Funds PSC STEM Ed Program

Grable Grant Will Fund BEST, PSC’s STEM Secondary Education Program Aug. 1, 2016 High school teachers in southwest Pennsylvania will get training in advanced computing technologies in the biological sciences—bioinformatics—thanks to a $10,000 grant from the Grable...