by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
Blacklight Used to Extract Meaning from Cursive Script, Allowing Scanned Documents to be Searched Step 1: Correct rotations and reduce smudges and bleeds to produce a spreadsheet-like document with identifiable cells. Step 2: Create a statistical picture...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Science Highlights Overview pages, Spring 2014
Welcome once again to Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s biannual report, featuring the pathbreaking projects being pursued by our users, our staff and our students. We’re very pleased in this issue to cover a broad spectrum of work, including research, technical...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 7, 2014 | 2014Press
PSC Developing Networking Tool to Speed Big Data Transfers DANCES will create virtual “HOV lane” for larger scientific users in Internet2 Tuesday, April 8, 2014 A new, $1 million National Science Foundation grant will enable engineers at Pittsburgh...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 15, 2014 | 2014Press
PSC Projects Make Top Supercomputing Discovery List Two public health projects at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center have made HPCwire’s list of “The Top Supercomputing-Led Discoveries of 2013.” The HERMES project is analyzing vaccine supply chains in lower-income...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 25, 2013 | 2013Press
Region’s First 100-Gigabit-per-Second Network Opens in Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Brings New Technology to Regional Users Monday, Dec. 2, 2013 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has upgraded the Three Rivers Optical Exchange (3ROX) Internet2...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 14, 2013 | HPCWire Awards, Media Advisory
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Receives HPCwire Awards for Work on SGI Supercomputer Awards Recognize Outstanding Achievements in Science and Technology by “Blacklight” Supercomputer Monday, Nov. 18, 2013 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and its SGI...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 14, 2013 | 2013Press
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Receives Four HPCwire Awards Awards Recognize Outstanding Achievements in Science and Technology Monday, Nov. 18, 2013 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has received top national honors in four categories of the 2013 HPCwire...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 1, 2013 | Media Advisory
Concentration XSEDE ECSS Staff at PSC Enable Non-Human Primate Genome Reference Transcriptome Resource to Support Study of Genes in Our Closest Relatives November 2013 In the card game “Concentration,” you place the 52 cards in a deck face down on a table. You turn...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 29, 2013 | 2013Press, Web10G, Web10G News
Web10G Project Will Create User-Friendly “Dashboard” for Identifying, Fixing Data Slowdowns Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 The Web10G Project has received a one-year, $178,000 Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) supplemental award from the National Science...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 16, 2013 | 2013Press
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Lands $7.6-Million NSF Grant Four-Year Project to Prototype the Data Exacell, a Next-Generation System for Integrated Data Storage and Analytics Monday, Oct. 21, 2013 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved a grant to...
