by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 2, 2020 | Science Highlights
Bridges Refines Protein Simulations, Approaching Lab Accuracy To understand how the tiny machinery of life works in health and disease, scientists need accurate pictures of how proteins fold and move. But laboratory methods for imaging proteins are slow, and so the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 28, 2020 | Collaborations, Press release
Sept. 1, 2020 HuBMAP (the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program) has released its inaugural data for use by the scientific community and the general public. Included in this release are detailed, 3D anatomical data and genetic sequences of healthy tissues from seven...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 21, 2020 | Press release
Slower and Noisier Aug. 3, 2020 It seems strange to talk about “quiet” versus “noisy” collisions of neutron stars. But many such impacts form a black hole that swallows all but the gravitational evidence. A series of simulations using PSC’s Bridges platform and other...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 10, 2020 | Press release
Anton 2 Simulates Coronavirus Binding to Human Cells A team at the University of Arkansas is using the unparalleled ability of the Anton 2 supercomputer to simulate molecular systems for microseconds or longer to better understand how the Coronavirus that causes...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 9, 2020 | Neocortex, Press release
A $5 million National Science Foundation (NSF) award will allow the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) to deploy a unique high performance artificial intelligence (AI) system. Neocortex will introduce fundamentally new hardware to greatly speed AI research. PSC, a...
