Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

 

Enabling discovery since 1986

PSC40: Powering Discovery

Join us in celebrating 40 years of PSC!

2026 Physics Nobel Prize Breakthrough Used PSC’s Bridges-2

PSC user Francis Halzen has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize for Physics!

New Approach Gauges Reliability of AI Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Weighting for Uncertainty Helps Pitt Team Factor for Individual Patients, not just Populations

Meet PSC Intern Anna Sawford

This spring, PSC’s Chris Csonka sat down with Anna Sawford, Slippery Rock junior and PSC intern to talk about her time and experiences at the center and what her future looks like.

Routine Online Information Makes Identity Hack Easier

In 2009 Study, CMU Team Used PSC Supercomputer and Public Online Data to Guess Social Security Numbers

Heavy Hitter: Meet PSC’s Rob Light

PSC’s Chris Csonka sat down with Rob Light, Principal Systems Software Engineer Manager to chat about Rob’s time at PSC from his beginning days to the present.

Breakthrough Discovery in Protein Folding Offers Insights into Degenerative Diseases

Bridges-2 Simulations Point to Process of Fibril Formation, Offering Clues to Combatting ALS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s

Transitions Lenses Get Sim-Driven Breakthrough: Faster Response, Lighter Lenses

2008 PSC Simulations Helped Transitions Inc. Develop First Plastic Photochromic Lenses

The PSC Learning Lab

Discover PSC’s New Self-Paced Learning Resources to Support Your HPC Journey

We are looking to expand our team!

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, or PSC, is a joint computational research center with Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh.

Join us as we continue to enable scientific discovery since 1986!

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CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

Accelerate your research on Bridges-2,
our flagship supercomputer

Bridges-2 supercomputer

Our featured projects

PSC maintains advanced infrastructure to support
computation-heavy research in areas such as: data analytics, machine learning, bimolecular simulation, AI and deep learning, and provides access to the national cyberinfrastructure community of resources.

HuBMAP

The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program is developing the tools to create an open, global atlas of the human body at the cellular level.

Neocortex

Neocortex unlocks interactive AI development for rapidly evolving research and democratizes access to game-changing compute power.

Anton

National Anton Resource for biomolecular simulation, enabling investigations of important biological phenomena.

ACCESS

ACCESS is expanding the national research cyberinfrastructure ecosystem to include more researchers, scholars and scientific domains.

Bridges 2

Bridges-2 provides transformative capability for rapidly evolving, computation-intensive and data-intensive research, creating opportunities for collaboration and convergence research.

Want to help further our research?

Support the next big discovery or inspire the next class of great thinkers with a gift to our center.

Recent News from PSC

Accelerate your research on
Bridges-2, our newest supercomputer

Our Featured Projects

PSC maintains advanced infrastructure to support computation-heavy research in areas in: data analytics, machine learning, bimolecular simulation, AI and deep learning, and provides access to the national cyberinfrastructure community of resources.

HuBMAP

The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program is developing the tools to create an open, global atlas of the human body at the cellular level.

Neocortex

Neocortex unlocks interactive AI development for rapidly evolving research and democratizes access to game-changing compute power.

Anton 2

Anton 2 is a special purpose supercomputer for biomolecular simulation enabling investigations of important biological phenomena.

ACCESS

The ACCESS program provides an entry to the national research cyberinfrastructure ecosystem for researchers and scholars in all scientific domains.

Bridges 2

Bridges-2 provides transformative capability for rapidly evolving, computation-intensive and data-intensive research, creating opportunities for collaboration and convergence research.

Want to help further our research?

Support the next big discovery or inspire the next class of great thinkers with a gift to our center.