by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 2, 2020 | Science Highlights
Anton 2 Simulations Kick off Drug Safety Prediction Pipeline Many possibly useful drugs are abandoned because they increase the QT interval of the heartbeat. This is because QT prolongation can cause life-threatening side effects. But not all QT-prolonging drugs are...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 2, 2020 | Science Highlights
Combination of Bridges and Anton 2 Allows Team to Span Time Scales in Simulating Dagger-Like Microbe-Killing Molecule Medical science is in a race to develop new and better antimicrobial agents to address infection and other human diseases. One promising example of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 2, 2020 | Science Highlights
Introducing Experimental Data into Molecular Simulations on Bridges Improves Predictions of Metallic Glass Structure Metallic glass has great strength and flexibility and can be engineered for specific uses. These properties make it useful for medical devices,...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 2, 2020 | Science Highlights
Bridges Refines Protein Simulations, Approaching Lab Accuracy To understand how the tiny machinery of life works in health and disease, scientists need accurate pictures of how proteins fold and move. But laboratory methods for imaging proteins are slow, and so the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 28, 2020 | Collaborations, Press release
Sept. 1, 2020 HuBMAP (the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program) has released its inaugural data for use by the scientific community and the general public. Included in this release are detailed, 3D anatomical data and genetic sequences of healthy tissues from seven...
by Deb Nigra | Aug 19, 2020 | Neocortex events
Webinar: Technical Overview of the Cerebras CS-1, the AI Compute Engine for Neocortex Presented on Wednesday, August 19, 2020, 2:00 – 3:00 pm (ET), by Natalia Vassilieva, Ph.D, Cerebras Systems, Inc. In this webinar, we offer a technical deep dive into the...
by Deb Nigra | Jul 30, 2020 | Neocortex events
Neocortex Early User Program The Neocortex Early User Program (EUP) provides a unique opportunity for the earliest possible access to the remarkable technology of the Cerebras CS-1 and HPE Superdome Flex integrated system. Participating research groups will...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 21, 2020 | Press release
Slower and Noisier Aug. 3, 2020 It seems strange to talk about “quiet” versus “noisy” collisions of neutron stars. But many such impacts form a black hole that swallows all but the gravitational evidence. A series of simulations using PSC’s Bridges platform and other...
by Deb Nigra | Jul 15, 2020 | Neocortex events
Webinar: Introduction to Neocortex Presented on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, 2:00 – 3:00 pm (ET), by Paola A. Buitrago and Nicholas A. Nystrom. This webinar presents an overview of Neocortex, an upcoming NSF funded AI supercomputer at PSC, to be deployed in late...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 10, 2020 | Press release
Anton 2 Simulates Coronavirus Binding to Human Cells A team at the University of Arkansas is using the unparalleled ability of the Anton 2 supercomputer to simulate molecular systems for microseconds or longer to better understand how the Coronavirus that causes...
