by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 29, 2016 | 2016Press
Grable Grant Will Fund BEST, PSC’s STEM Secondary Education Program Aug. 1, 2016 High school teachers in southwest Pennsylvania will get training in advanced computing technologies in the biological sciences—bioinformatics—thanks to a $10,000 grant from the Grable...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 22, 2016 | 2016Press
A peer-reviewed report by researchers from the University of Puerto Rico and PSC surveying students at PSC’s MARC Summer Internship has won the Best Workforce Development and Diversity Paper at the XSEDE16 supercomputing conference. The investigators offer...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 21, 2016 | 2016Press
Making Big Data DANCE(S) XSEDE Project Successfully Tests Scheduled Networking of Big Data July 22, 2016 A project to make movement of the largest datasets more efficient has tested for the first time networking hardware components necessary for scheduling...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 19, 2016 | 2016Press
Study of PSC Internship Shows a Need To Go Beyond Traditional Outreach July 19, 2016 Bringing more minority students into the bioinformatics training pipeline may require a major rethink of STEM outreach to minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and more funding, a team...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 19, 2016 | 2016Press
Just in Time Virtual File System Will Save Vast Computer Storage Space by Processing Images on the Fly July 19, 2016 Researchers analyzing complex multidimensional images may be able to save hundreds of terabytes of disk space, a team from PSC reported at the XSEDE16...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 30, 2016 | 2016Press
Experts from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and their collaborators will present a number of topics at XSEDE16, the fifth annual conference of the NSF-funded Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). XSEDE16 will take place at the...