by Megan Carroll | May 6, 2021 | Features
Carnegie Mellon University’s Mellon College of Science (MCS), one of PSC’s home institutions, announced in March the launch of a new degree program that serves as an exciting opportunity for students, faculty, and staff alike. The Master of Science in Data Analytics...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 19, 2021 | AI, 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 | Apr 16, 2021 | Features
For PSC’s most recent system install, the team took a collaborative & strategic approach, enabled – not hindered – by COVID-19. Senior Network Engineer Rich Angeletti still refers to himself as a “new” staff member after 6 years at PSC. After all, he’s...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 8, 2021 | Press release
Deadline for proposals for current allocation period is April 15 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved PSC’s new Bridges-2 system for production operations. PSC offers time on the NSF-funded, advanced research computing platform to researchers performing...
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 Deb Nigra | Mar 15, 2021 | What's new on Bridges-2
The names of the modules that use the NVIDIA (formerly called PGI) compilers are changing. They will now use “nvhpc” to indicate the compiler set instead of “pgi”. An example is given below To useOld module nameNew module nameOpenMPI v. 4.0.5...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 8, 2021 | AI, Science Highlights
Spring/Summer 2021 Accurate Identification of Malware by Program Running on Bridges-AI Convolutional Neural Network Promises Leap Forward in Antivirus Tech by Ken Chiacchia Computer experts are good at identifying malware—computer viruses, worms and the like—and...
