by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 31, 2021 | Press release
PSC Director Shawn Brown has been appointed vice chancellor for research computing at the University of Pittsburgh. Make no mistake: Brown remains director of PSC. He’s ours, we’re keeping him. Brown’s new appointment continues PSC’s strengthening relations with both...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 30, 2021 | Press release
Above: The scientists’ simulation of damage-causing strain to brain tissues for sudden movements in the coronal direction (swaying the head from shoulder to shoulder). When using a measure that captured strain in any direction (MPS, in figure a), the estimated damage...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 29, 2021 | Neocortex, Press release
Cerebras’s Wafer Scale Engine, with a baseball for size comparison. Access and AI research begins on the new PSC Neocortex system, an advanced AI computing system for science and engineering that leverages Cerebras Systems’ revolutionary Wafer Scale Engine The...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 22, 2021 | Press release
Open-Source Tool for Engineering New Substances Developed by PSC Scientist and Colleagues MuST, a new, open-source supercomputing code, radically reduces the complexity of simulating complex materials, promising predictions of the properties of samples large enough to...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 2, 2021 | Press release
$2,000 Grant Will Help Fund Operations, Raise Program’s Visibility in Challenging COVID Year Despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been a banner learning season for the Pittsburgh Data Jam. For the third time this academic year, the program for...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 15, 2021 | Press release
PSC’s Big Data and AI Supercomputer Replaced by New Bridges-2 Platform From the vastness of neutron-star collisions to the raw power of incoming tsunamis to the tiny, life-and-death details of how COVID-19 progresses, the Bridges platform at the Pittsburgh...
