by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 26, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Proof-of-concept work suggests applications in industrial processes, environmental monitoring, and medicine Polymer brushes are forests of molecular-sized chains extending from a surface. If they can be made to behave properly in the real world, they could form the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 15, 2023 | Neocortex, Science Highlights
Neocortex-computed still-image from a simulation of the classic Rayleigh-Bénard convection problem, which shows how a fluid layer begins mixing as it’s heated from the bottom (red) and cooled from the top (blue) in a gravitational field. Real-time simulations offer...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 20, 2023 | Press release
James Barr von Oehsen James Barr von Oehsen has been selected as the director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Von Oehsen is a leader in the fields of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 14, 2022 | Bridges-2, Press release
Thirteenth Year PSC Is Recognized by HPCwire Awards, Given to Leaders in the Global High Performance Computing Community Science performed with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s (PSC’s) advanced research computers has been recognized with two HPCwire Editors’...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 1, 2022 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
The Coma Cluster contains more than 1,000 galaxies. Scientists have long been frustrated by large uncertainties in its mass. Predicted mass of huge Coma Cluster agrees with earlier, human-intensive attempts; offers fast, accurate measurement needed to understand early...