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...
by Deb Nigra | Jul 1, 2021 | What's new on Bridges-2
The NVIDIA compilers (formerly PGI) have been updated on Bridges-2 to version 21.5. This is now the default when you load the nvhpc module.
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 15, 2021 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
bridges & bridges-2 Power discovery of two-x-chromosome male voles The Way This Rodent Species Determines Sex Differs from All Other Mammals Known by Ken Chiacchia Sex can be complicated. In creeping voles, a small rodent in the Pacific Northwest, it’s even more...
by Megan Carroll | Jun 11, 2021 | Bridges-2, Features
This past week featured an exciting and celebratory Tuesday for PSC staff. We had the opportunity to attend the CMU Mellon College of Science Staff Awards Ceremony, an annual celebration of staff achievements and a chance for us to recognize one another’s...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 9, 2021 | Press release
PSC’s founding scientific directors, Michael Levine (left) and Ralph Roskies, with the center’s Cray X-MP. Today the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) celebrated the 35th anniversary of its first supercomputer. The National Science Board approved...
by PSC | Jun 8, 2021 | Features
Every year PSC hires several students to participate in its Summer Internship Program. This year we hired three interns who will work on various projects throughout the summer. What makes these students special is they were hired from a pool of over 100 applicants!...
