by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 5, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Bridges-2 Powers “Digital Twin,” Allowing Rapid Simulated Testing of Neurons The movement of signals and nutrients down a nerve cell’s long axon is central to healthy thought and movement, and to some neurodegenerative diseases. A digital twin, a virtual nerve cell...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 2, 2026 | Collaborations, HuBMAP, News, Press release
HuBMAP Data Portal, Announced in Paper in Prestigious Nature Communications, Links Over 9,000 Data Sets for Investigations of Human Body in 3D, and Scales from Organs to Cells A team of scientists has announced the latest version of the HuBMAP Data Portal, a data...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 22, 2026 | Anniversary, Science Highlights
Massive Memory of PSC’s Blacklight Helped CMU Team Plan Optimal Chain of Recipients, Donors Only a fraction of the patients awaiting organ transplants match with a donor each year. In 2015, a team from CMU used PSC’s Blacklight supercomputer to show CORE, the national...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 15, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Weighting for Uncertainty Helps Pitt Team Factor for Individual Patients, not just Populations While AI offers the ability to improve human experts’ ability to diagnose and treat diseases like breast cancer, well-publicized errors across the broader AI field are cause...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 6, 2026 | Bridges-2, News, Press release
Top to bottom: Maps of the Milky Way galaxy based on low-energy radio waves, visible light, high-energy gamma rays, and the Nobel-Prize-recognized map based on neutrino emissions. PSC user Francis Halzen has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize for Physics! The Nobel...
by Chris Csonka | Oct 2, 2026 | Anniversary, Features, Inside PSC, Intern news, Staff
Anna (left) with friends including fellow PSC intern Miriam Bamaca (right) at the time-honored Pittsburgh Picklesburgh festival. 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...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 25, 2026 | Anniversary, Science Highlights
In 2009 Study, CMU Team Used PSC Supercomputer and Public Online Data to Guess Social Security Numbers PSC40: Powering Discovery 2026 marks 40 years of PSC. As we continue on with cutting-edge innovation, we look back on four decades of history in computing,...
by Chris Csonka | Sep 18, 2026 | Anniversary, Features, Inside PSC, Staff
Rob Light, now PSC’s Principal Systems Software Engineer Manager, who started in 1999 as a student. 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....
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 17, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Amyloid plaques forming between neurons. Beta-amyloid protein disrupting nerve cells’ function in a brain with Alzheimer’s disease. Bridges-2 Simulations Point to Process of Fibril Formation, Offering Clues to Combatting ALS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Fibril forming...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 19, 2026 | Anniversary, Science Highlights
2008 PSC Simulations Helped Transitions Inc. Develop First Plastic Photochromic Lenses PSC40: Powering Discovery 2026 marks 40 years of PSC. As we continue on with cutting-edge innovation, we look back on four decades of history in computing, education, and...
