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...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 2, 2020 | AI, Science Highlights
Bridges Powers Artificial Intelligence that Can Speed Simulations of Neutron Star Mergers and Repeated Simulations that Predict Unique Signal from Unequal Mergers Collisions between neutron stars involve some of the most extreme physics in the Universe. The intense...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 2, 2020 | Science Highlights
Computation with Bridges Points to Unexpected Mechanism for DNA Duplication in Parkinson’s Disease The progressive disability of Parkinson’s disease carries a heavy toll both in numbers—nearly a million people in the U.S. have it—and in suffering. The wrong number...
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...
