by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 31, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
One of the patterns the CMU team used to prove that 14 colors/numbers isn’t enough to solve the packing problem; note that, in the upper left, the “chessboard” pattern of 1s is interrupted. CMU Team Uses Bridges-2 to Solve a 21-Year-Old Coloring Problem in Mapping...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 17, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Left: Microscope image of the healthy neuromuscular junction (NMJ). Bright spots are where a fluorescent-label has stuck to muscle-cell-surface proteins that respond to neurotransmitters. Upper Right: MCell model of healthy mouse NMJ active zones (AZs). Six AZs are...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 14, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Initial Work With PSC System Pilots AI That Went On to Predict Colorectal Cancer Genetic Status That Would Otherwise Require Lengthy Lab Testing Diagnosing cancer relies heavily on human expertise and lengthy genetic testing, which aren’t always available. A team from...
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 | Feb 7, 2023 | Neocortex, Press release
Running on Cerebras CS-2 within PSC’s Neocortex, NETL Simulates Natural Convection with Multi-Hundred Million Cell Resolutions, Pointing the Way to More Powerful, Energy Efficient and Insightful Scientific Computing Cerebras Systems, the pioneer in high performance...