by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 23, 2014 | 2014Press
PSC directors discuss role of supercomputing in Post-Gazette op/ed Monday, June 23, 2014 Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s scientific directors, have written an op/ed piece that appeared in yesterday’s Sunday...
by Deb Nigra | Jun 19, 2014 | Training
Developing Bioinformatics Programs and Academic Courses: A special technology transfer program aimed at MARC institutions Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center scientists have many years of experience teaching bioinformatics techniques to both academic and industrial...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 27, 2014 | 2014Press
PSC Recognizes Fox Chapel Students for Computation in Science Projects Projects Use Latest Technology to Help Disabled, Visually Impaired People Wednesday, May 28, 2014 Science projects by two students from Fox Chapel Area Senior High School, Pittsburgh, have earned...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 19, 2014 | 2014Press
PSC Biannual Reports Take Three Hermes Creative Awards Tuesday, May 20, 2014 PSC’s Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 biannual reports, “People. Science. Collaboration,” have received high recognition in the 2014 Hermes Creative Awards. The publications garnered platinum...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 8, 2014 | 2014Press
PSC, Hopkins Computer Model Helps Benin Vaccinate More Kids at Lower Cost Monday, May 12, 2014 The HERMES Logistics Modeling Team, consisting of researchers from Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering...
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...
