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...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 12, 2013 | 2013Press
Mind the Gap MARC Program Helps Minority-Serving Institutions Prepare Students for 21st-Century Biology Careers August 13, 2013 American biology education risks becoming a two-class system. The top-tier institutions understand that bioinformatics—using advanced...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 18, 2013 | 2013Press
CFL Software, PSC Collaborate on Next Generation of Information Searching JULY 18, 2013 New software being developed by CFL Software may transform our ability to search for information in text documents as profoundly as search engines improved upon paper library card...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 11, 2013 | 2013Press
Blacklight Research Spurs Change in Stock Exchange Rules July 15, 2013 Findings on the effects of “odd lot” trades on the financial markets, using computations on PSC’s Blacklight, have led the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market and the Financial...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 2, 2013 | 2013Press
2014 Pennsylvania State Budget Includes $500,000 for Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center July 2, 2013 The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania budget signed by Gov. Tom Corbett on June 30 includes a $500,000 line item for PSC. “This is very good news for PSC and for the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 28, 2013 | 2013Press
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Numascale AS to Collaborate on Improved Memory Systems for Research June 28, 2013 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), Pennsylvania’s only National Science Foundation high performance computing facility, and Numascale AS, whose...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 21, 2013 | 2013Press
Opening the Flood Gates Argonne, PSC Staff Shepherd Internet2 Migration, Give XSEDE Network Bandwidth Needed for Big Data Era Monday, June 24, 2013 Thanks to personnel at Argonne National Laboratory and PSC — chiefly Linda Winkler, senior network engineer, Argonne;...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 24, 2013 | 2013Press
Lack of Reliable Transportation Undermines Delivery of Lifesaving Vaccines University of Pittsburgh / Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Computer Simulations Highlight Need to Increase Focus on Vaccine Transport Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Transportation of vaccines is a...
