by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 30, 2021 | Press release
Above: The scientists’ simulation of damage-causing strain to brain tissues for sudden movements in the coronal direction (swaying the head from shoulder to shoulder). When using a measure that captured strain in any direction (MPS, in figure a), the estimated damage...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 29, 2021 | Neocortex, Press release
Cerebras’s Wafer Scale Engine, with a baseball for size comparison. Access and AI research begins on the new PSC Neocortex system, an advanced AI computing system for science and engineering that leverages Cerebras Systems’ revolutionary Wafer Scale Engine The...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 15, 2021 | Press release
PSC’s Big Data and AI Supercomputer Replaced by New Bridges-2 Platform From the vastness of neutron-star collisions to the raw power of incoming tsunamis to the tiny, life-and-death details of how COVID-19 progresses, the Bridges platform at the Pittsburgh...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 21, 2021 | Press release
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has funded PSC and collaborators with $1.5 million in two separate awards. The state’s 2020-21 budget includes a line item for $500,000 to fund activities at PSC not covered by the organization’s research grants. The money will support...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 17, 2019 | Press release
Oct. 17, 2019 Shawn Brown has been selected as the next director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Brown, whose work uses high performance computing,...
