Science Highlights
Research conducted and supported by PSC computational resources, educational programs, and staff expertise
So You Want to be a Super Computor
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”...
Roll Out the Beta Barrels
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...
Building a 21st Century Data Highway
PSC Advanced Networking Group Expands Networking Capabilities for Region, World In the era of “Big Data,” the challenge of moving the vastly expanded data volumes created and needed by today’s researchers has become central. The old network—the equivalent of an...
Shoring up the Weakest Link
PSC Cybersecurity Group Uses Technology, User Savvy,to Guard Supercomputing Resources Nationwide Luckily, the woman was smart. When a waiter brought her a phone, saying her credit card company was calling her, she smelled a rat. The caller, claiming to...
Cosmic Tug of War
Large Dark Matter Halos Favor Growth of Larger Early Galaxies Nov. 20, 2015 WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Few scientific questions are as fundamental, or fascinating, as the origin of the Universe. And we can see the early Universe. The farthest galaxies from us are so far away...
Breaking out of the Digital Document Graveyard
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...
From the Directors
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...
Protein Research Leaps Forward with Anton at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Protein Research Leaps Forward with Anton at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Special-purpose supercomputer's stay is extended, with new round of time allocations PITTSBURGH, July 21, 2011 — Using a special-purpose supercomputer for biomolecular simulation, U.S....