by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 14, 2025 | HuBMAP, News, Press release, Research, Resources
Paper in Nature Methods Charts Latest Progress, Use of HRA for Studying Human Body Across Scales Coverage and Quality of the Human Reference Atlas (HRA): Experts from many fields of science around the globe have constructed and use the HRA; the HRA Dashboard shows the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 5, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
AI Tool Would Enable Industry to Predict Temperatures that Require Maintenance or Repair, Improving Safety and Making Repairs Less Expensive Continuously welded rails were a cost game-changer in the railway industry, which contributes over $27 billion to the U.S....
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 21, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
The pointed end of HIV’s outer viral shell, its capsid, helps it squeeze into host cells’ nuclear pore. A team from Pitt has simulated the virus in PSC’s Bridges-2 to show how a twist in a critical protein may help it shoehorn in. Based on a figure from Yang DT et al....
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 5, 2025 | Neocortex, Science Highlights
In real life, mutants can arise when their DNA changes to give them an advantage over the rest of the population. A team from the University of Michigan used simulations on PSC’s Neocortex to find out why beneficial mutants rarely come to dominate real...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 22, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
A visualization of the Moon’s Clavius crater. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio. Visualizer Ernie Wright (USRA), Technical support Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.), Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.) Previous Missions Did Not Add...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 3, 2025 | Anton, Science Highlights
Generated models of the AT1 receptors taken from Supporting Information: Structural Rearrangement of the AT1 Receptor Modulated by Membrane Thickness and Tension, Figure S11. G Protein-Coupled Receptor Triggered by Mechanical Tension as Well as Chemical Signals,...
by Deb Nigra | Dec 29, 2024 | Features
We can see the new year ahead of us, just beyond the bend. Before it gets here, we thought we’d pause, put our feet up and (sips coffee… ahh…) take one last look back at 2024. We were amazed at the science Toothed whale echolocation – The...
by Chris Csonka | Dec 20, 2024 | Features, Inside PSC, Staff
Listing out PSCer’s who are on the team because of Deb Nigra quickly calls for webs and flow charts to get it all straight. Six Degrees of Deb Nigra PSC Interns – Where Are They Now? Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has hosted interns and employed...
by Ken Chiacchia | Dec 18, 2024 | Bridges-2, Intern news, News, Press release
Benchmark Beasts Team to Compete at ISC25 Conference in Hamburg, Germany A team of interns from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has been selected to represent the United States next year at an international high performance computing (HPC) competition for...
by Deb Nigra | Dec 6, 2024 | Neocortex events
Neocortex Fall 2024 Workshop This comprehensive 3-hour virtual workshop described the Neocortex project and detailed the technologies featured in the system, the type of applications supported (AI and non-AI), project highlights, demo sessions, and how to gain access....
