by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 5, 2024 | Anton, Anton 3, COVID-19, News, Press release, Resources, Systems
Designed and Built by D. E. Shaw Research, System Will Simulate Biomolecules Roughly 100 Times Faster than General-Purpose Supercomputers A third-generation Anton supercomputer (Anton 3), developed by D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES), will soon arrive at the Pittsburgh...
by Chris Csonka | Aug 1, 2024 | AI, Bridges-2, Features, NAIRR, Neocortex, Staff
Dana O’Connor, Machine Learning Research Scientist at PSC Before her recent presentation at the PEARC conference, I sat down with Dana O’Connor, Machine Learning Research Scientist with PSC’s AI and Big Data group, to talk about her recent award and her work at...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 31, 2024 | Anton, Anton 2, Research, Science Highlights
Scientists used the second-generation DESRES Anton supercomputer hosted at PSC to show how a critical protein for furture gene therapy pauses before completing its cutting of a target DNA. Credit: Aakash Saha Understanding Unexpected Motion of Protein Will Be Crucial...
by Chris Csonka | Jul 18, 2024 | ACCESS, Features, NAIRR, Staff
Stephen Deems, PI for the NSF-funded ACCESS Allocations at PSC I sat down recently with Stephen Deems, the PI for the NSF-funded ACCESS Allocations program, to chat about his recent Mellon College of Science Outstanding Achievement Award and his time at PSC. ACCESS...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 17, 2024 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Adobe Stock https://www.psc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AdobeStock_94796347.jpeg Sims Will Allow Future Telescopes to Identify What Kinds of Jets Emerge as Super Massive Black Holes Eat Matter from Their Surrounding Galaxies Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are...
by Chris Rapier | Jul 11, 2024 | HPN-SSH
HPN-SSH 18.4.2 has been released and is now available on https://github.com/rapier1/hpn-ssh. This release patches the CVE-2024-6387 (aka Regresshion) security flaw. Fedora and Debian packages are also...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 11, 2024 | AI, Collaborations, Consulting, Data Handling and Analytics, LCCF, News, Press release, Research, Resources, Software, Systems
$5 Million in NSF Funding Will Allow PSC to Provide Data-Intensive Computing and Data Mirroring to TACC-Led, Distributed System It’s a high performance computing system so large and powerful that it will take five supercomputing centers to build and run it! Today the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 3, 2024 | Bridges-2, Research, Science Highlights
By Kimberly Mann Bruch, SDSC Communications, and Ken Chiacchia, PSC Virtual Dolphin Head Shows How Sound Moves through the Skull, Suggesting How Sounds May Offer Directional Cues for Navigation and Detection Whales navigate, find food, and communicate over vast...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 3, 2024 | Anton 2, Research, Science Highlights
This image shows the complexity of simulating the functional movements of the voltage-sensitive phosphatase’s motions. Anton 2 enables scientists to reproduce the movements of the protein’s components, as well as the lipids (grey, with the headgroups colored), water...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 24, 2024 | AI, Bridges-2, Science Highlights
A prompt for Mexican dancers from an AI image generator produced the strange ballerinas at left; a new CMU-designed filter makes the image more appropriate and realistic, right. Image credit: Zhixuan Liu, Jean Oh, et al. 2024. SCoFT: Self-Contrastive Fine-Tuning for...