Celebrating 30 years

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 1986-2016 Thirty years have gone by since June 1986 when PSC opened its doors. From megaflops and megabytes to petaflops and petabytes, one generation after another, it’s been an evolution of more memory and faster processing...

Early Effects Glucocorticoids

Early Effects Pitt Group Uses PSC, XSEDE Resources to Learn Effects of Glucocorticoids on Embryonic Nerve Cells April 7, 2016 Why It’s Important   Glucocorticoids have been a healing tool for treating allergies, asthma, autoimmune diseases and even some...

PSC Helps Reconstruct Visual Connections in Brain

Stitching Thought Together PSC Powers Harvard’s, Allen Institute’s 3D-Reconstruction of Excitatory Visual Neuron Wiring March 28, 2016 Why It’s Important: One of the mysteries of brain function is how we make sense of the jumble of images that confront our eyes....