by PSC | Sep 16, 2021 | Features, Inside PSC
For some people starting a new job in the middle of a pandemic would be a disheartening experience—not seeing or meeting any of your coworkers except via Zoom could be lonely and a bit depressing. But not so for Ivan Cao-Berg who hit the ground running on his...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 2, 2021 | AI, Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Pitt, PSC Collaboration Develops AI Tool for “Long Tail” Stamp Recognition in Japanese Historic Documents Bridges and Bridges-2 Power Study of Business Documents that Promises Better Automated Study of Datasets with Numerous Rare Items, a Key Limitation in...
by Deb Nigra | Aug 26, 2021 | Science Highlights Draft
Hurricane Simulations by Bridges, Bridges-2 Inform State Decision-Making Work Supports Louisiana’s 2023 Coastal Master Plan by Ken Chiacchia Destruction of coastal habitat doesn’t just affect wildlife—it endangers human lives and impacts employment and the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 26, 2021 | Bridges, Science Highlights
Proof of concept for rational design of “biohybrid walkers” reduces lab testing, expense Biohybrid robots—made by adding living tissues such as muscle cells to an artificial skeleton—have a lot of potential for doing complex jobs at tiny scales. But...
by Deb Nigra | Jul 23, 2021 | What's new on Bridges-2
Two new tools to show information about queued, running and completed jobs have been installed on Bridges-2. The slurm-toolcommand can provide information about your running, queued or completed jobs. It can also show the jobs that are running or queued in a partition...
by Megan Carroll | Jul 14, 2021 | Bridges-2, Features
PSC team members are gearing up for an exciting PEARC21 Conference next week! The annual Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing Conference series, aka ACM PEARC, brings together a wide variety of professionals, researchers, and students from the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 13, 2021 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Hurricane Simulations by Bridges, Bridges-2 Inform State Decision-Making Work Supports Louisiana’s 2023 Coastal Master Plan by Ken Chiacchia Destruction of coastal habitat doesn’t just affect wildlife—it endangers human lives and impacts employment and the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 13, 2021 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Hijacking of Pro-Vaccination Twitter Effort Is Focus of Bridges and Bridges-2 Analysis Tweets reveal how superior organization, social media practice of anti-vaccine messages came to dominate event by health professionals by Ken Chiacchia A well-intentioned 2020...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 13, 2021 | Bridges, Science Highlights
A two-step method identifies known drugs likely to reduce chance of death from covid-19 Bridges helps identify meds for other conditions that associate with lower death rates in COVID-19 patients by Ken Chiacchia Both the ongoing treatment of COVID-19 and readiness...
by Megan Carroll | Jul 12, 2021 | Bridges-2, Press release
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has granted PSC $500,000 in its annual budget, signed by Governor Tom Wolf in late June. PSC received an appropriation of $500,000 in the 2021-22 PA budget recently signed by Governor Wolf. This inclusion within the Department of...
