by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 5, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Adobe Stock 138718634 AI Tool Would Enable Industry to Predict Temperatures that Require Maintenance or Repair, Improving Safety and Making Repairs Less Expensive Continuously welded rails were a cost game-changer in the railway industry, which contributes over $27...
by Erica Anderson | Feb 26, 2025 | Internships
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is a joint computational research center with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Established in 1986, PSC is supported by several federal agencies, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and private industry. We are...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 21, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
The pointed end of HIV’s outer viral shell, its capsid, helps it squeeze into host cells’ nuclear pore. A team from Pitt has simulated the virus in PSC’s Bridges-2 to show how a twist in a critical protein may help it shoehorn in. Based on a figure from Yang DT et al....
by Erica Anderson | Feb 10, 2025 | Internships
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is a joint computational research center with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Established in 1986, PSC is supported by several federal agencies, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and private industry. The...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 5, 2025 | Neocortex, Science Highlights
In real life, mutants can arise when their DNA changes to give them an advantage over the rest of the population. A team from the University of Michigan used simulations on PSC’s Neocortex to find out why beneficial mutants rarely come to dominate real...
by PSC | Jan 30, 2025 | Bridges-2, Resources for Educators, Systems, User News, What's new on Bridges-2
PSC is pleased to announce that the Bridges-2 team just added ten (10) additional nodes to Bridges-2! These HPE Cray 670 nodes, each with eight (8) H100-SXM5-80GB GPUs and 2 TB node memory, are interconnected by a high-performance Infiniband network to the Bridges-2...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 22, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
A visualization of the Moon’s Clavius crater. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio. Visualizer Ernie Wright (USRA), Technical support Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.), Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.) Previous Missions Did Not Add...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 3, 2025 | Anton, Science Highlights
Generated models of the AT1 receptors taken from Supporting Information: Structural Rearrangement of the AT1 Receptor Modulated by Membrane Thickness and Tension, Figure S11. G Protein-Coupled Receptor Triggered by Mechanical Tension as Well as Chemical Signals,...
by Deb Nigra | Dec 29, 2024 | Features
We can see the new year ahead of us, just beyond the bend. Before it gets here, we thought we’d pause, put our feet up and (sips coffee… ahh…) take one last look back at 2024. We were amazed at the science Toothed whale echolocation – The...
by Chris Csonka | Dec 20, 2024 | Features, Inside PSC, Staff
Listing out PSCer’s who are on the team because of Deb Nigra quickly calls for webs and flow charts to get it all straight. Six Degrees of Deb Nigra PSC Interns – Where Are They Now? Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has hosted interns and employed...
