by Megan Carroll | Feb 12, 2021 | Inside PSC
Frontline User Support for Bridges-2 EUP If you use a PSC machine, our user support team might have come to your rescue on one (or a few – we don’t judge!) occasions. Currently, that frontline user support team consists of the dynamic duo of Tom Maiden and TJ...
by Deb Nigra | Feb 2, 2021 | What's new on Bridges-2
Dear Bridges User, After five years of enabling research and discovery, PSC will be decommissioning the Bridges platform in the coming weeks. All Bridges users with active grants will be transferred to PSC’s new flagship system, Bridges-2, upon the completion of the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 21, 2021 | Press release
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has funded PSC and collaborators with $1.5 million in two separate awards. The state’s 2020-21 budget includes a line item for $500,000 to fund activities at PSC not covered by the organization’s research grants. The money will support...
by Deb Nigra | Jan 1, 2021 | Best Practices
The main advantages of file compression are reductions in storage space, data transmission time, and communication bandwidth. This can result in significant cost savings. Compressed files may require significantly less storage capacity than uncompressed files, meaning...
by Ken Chiacchia | Dec 15, 2020 | Press release
View from Messina across the narrow Strait of Messina to Calabria, mainland Italy. This image was originally posted to Flickr by iwillbehomesoon at https://www.flickr.com/photos/46674859@N04/7823267394. It was reviewed on 8 February...
by Deb Nigra | Dec 8, 2020 | Neocortex events
Hands-on Virtual Training – Getting Ready to Use the Neocortex System Session 1 presented on Tuesday, December 8, 2020, 11:00 – 1:00 pm (ET), by Dr. Natalia Vassilieva from Cerebras.Session 2 presented on Thursday, December 10, 2020, 11:00 – 1:00 pm...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 16, 2020 | Press release
17th Annual HPCwire Awards Presented to Leaders in the Global HPC Community Artificial intelligence (AI) studies spanning from the tiny to the huge—from small molecules for fighting the SARS-CoV-2 virus to the enormous forces between colliding neutron...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 5, 2020 | Press release
Lab, Computer Experiments to Improve Simulations of Signaling between Nerve and Muscle cells, Offering Clues to Treating a Type of Neurological Disease A new $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will continue a lab-computer collaboration that accurately...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 2, 2020 | Science Highlights
Bridges-2 Supercomputing Platform Begins Operations at PSC A $10-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a new major supercomputing platform at PSC. In partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), PSC has deployed Bridges-2, a system...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 2, 2020 | Science Highlights
PSC Systems Support Urgent COVID-19 Science With the nation—and the world—disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, PSC is answering the call to action. The center has given the national research community expedited access to its systems Bridges; Bridges-AI; and Anton 2, a...
