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!...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 27, 2021 | Science Highlights
psc systems power dna-based identification of surface, airborne microbes worldwide Samples from 60 cities reveal previously unknown microbes, diversity of antibiotic-resistance genes by Ken Chiacchia Dangerous microbes can emerge with little warning. Using PSC’s...
by Chris Rapier | May 24, 2021 | HPN-SSH
All patch sets from 4.4p1 to 8.1p1 are now available on SourceForge at https://sourceforge.net/projects/hpnssh/. The entire codebase (merged with OpenSSH) is also available as a git repo from https://github.com/rapier1/openssh-portable. The SourceForge location now...
by PSC | May 19, 2021 | Press release
The McWilliams Center for Cosmology Seed Grant program supports faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and research staff who want to explore a new area of research and/or jumpstart their research activity. The program is designed to encourage genuine collaborations between...
by Chris Rapier | May 10, 2021 | HPN-SSH
We are proud to announce that the HPN-SSH development team has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (Award#: 2004012) to continue development on HPN-SSH. This grant will be used to develop and incorporate new features and optimizations. This grant...
by PSC | May 10, 2021 | Science Highlights
May 2021 BRIDGES HELPS REVEAL EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM SPACEFLIGHT ON HUMAN BODY Comparison of DNA of Spacefaring and Earth-Bound Astronauts Raises Intriguing Questions by Ken Chiacchia Mars may well be a near-future goal for astronauts. But our understanding of the...
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...
