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Parkinson’s Research, Evolution of Vocalization, AI Training Tool, and National AI Collaboration Underlie Four HPCwire Awards to PSC

by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 19, 2024 | AI, Bridges-2, Collaborations, HPCWire Awards, NAIRR, Neocortex, News, Press release

High Performance Computing Achievements Recognized by Peers, Editors of Leading Trade Press Magazine at SC24 Conference in Atlanta A promising new avenue for treating Parkinson’s disease, an amazing genetic commonality among very different species that learn how to...

Cybersecurity Center of Excellence Receives Five-Year, $6M/Year Award From NSF

by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 3, 2024 | Press release

PSC to Play a Leading Role Learn more about the Cybersecurity Center of Excellence here.

$4.9-Million NSF Award Funds Major Enhancement to Bridges-2 System

by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 13, 2024 | bridges, Bridges-2, NAIRR, News, Press release, Resources, Systems, User News

Additional GPU Capabilities Will Expand AI Research in Range of Scientific Fields A $4.9-million award from the National Science Foundation has funded an upgrade to PSC’s flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer. The grant allows the center to add late-model powerful NVIDIA...

$3.15 Million from NIH to Fund Operation of Third-Generation Anton Supercomputer at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 5, 2024 | Anton, Anton 3, COVID-19, News, Press release, Resources, Systems

Designed and Built by D. E. Shaw Research, System Will Simulate Biomolecules Roughly 100 Times Faster than General-Purpose Supercomputers A third-generation Anton supercomputer (Anton 3), developed by D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES), will soon arrive at the Pittsburgh...

Construction Begun on Leadership-Class Computing Facility

by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 11, 2024 | AI, Collaborations, Consulting, Data Handling and Analytics, LCCF, News, Press release, Research, Resources, Software, Systems

$5 Million in NSF Funding Will Allow PSC to Provide Data-Intensive Computing and Data Mirroring to TACC-Led, Distributed System It’s a high performance computing system so large and powerful that it will take five supercomputing centers to build and run it! Today the...

PSC’s Bridges-2 Joins Neocortex Among Elite Artificial Intelligence Computers Allocated through National NAIRR Pilot Project

by Ken Chiacchia | May 6, 2024 | Bridges-2, Neocortex, News, Press release, User News, What's new on Bridges-2

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Bridges-2 supercomputer is now available to scientists through the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot Project, joining the center’s Neocortex AI system in the second-round call for research proposals by a National...