by Ken Chiacchia | May 8, 2014 | 2014Press
PSC, Hopkins Computer Model Helps Benin Vaccinate More Kids at Lower Cost Monday, May 12, 2014 The HERMES Logistics Modeling Team, consisting of researchers from Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
$7.6-Million NSF Grant to fund the Data Exacell, PSC’s Next-Generation System for Storing, Analyzing Big Data The term “Big Data” has become a buzzword. Like any buzzword, its definition is fairly malleable, carrying different meanings in research,...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
PSC RECEIVES FOUR NATIONAL AWARDS In November, PSC received top national honors in four categories of the 2013 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards. HPCwire, the premier trade publication for the high performance computing (HPC) community, announced the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
Anton shows how water leaving, re-entering potassium channel structure delays return to active state WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The potassium channel helps create electrical signals in nerve and muscle cells. This process goes awry in some irregular heartbeat...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
PSC Takes Lead in XSEDE Summer Research Experience Program Young career seekers in the high performance computing (HPC) field often face a familiar problem. You can’t get the job without experience. But another hitch confronts would-be “super computors”...