by Ken Chiacchia | May 24, 2024 | AI, Bridges-2, Science Highlights
A prompt for Mexican dancers from an AI image generator produced the strange ballerinas at left; a new CMU-designed filter makes the image more appropriate and realistic, right. Image credit: Zhixuan Liu, Jean Oh, et al. 2024. SCoFT: Self-Contrastive Fine-Tuning for...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 6, 2024 | Bridges-2, Neocortex, News, Press release, User News, What's new on Bridges-2
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Bridges-2 supercomputer is now available to scientists through the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot Project, joining the center’s Neocortex AI system in the second-round call for research proposals by a National...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 6, 2024 | Bridges-2, Neocortex, News, Press release
Click this link to see a recording of the White House/NAIRR announcement this morning. (Announcement starts at the 14-minute mark.)
by Ken Chiacchia | May 2, 2024 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Developing blood clot, with fibrin “cables” (yellow), being pulled together by platelets (off-white). Clots that trap more red blood cells (red) may not contract as effectively, slowing healing. Adobe Stock image: 240_F_453411695_2N2Jddctb1vWwqowio9hVtKoNrZ76X65.jpg...
by Chris Rapier | Apr 10, 2024 | HPN-SSH
We are pleased to announce that HPN-SSH 18.4.0 has been released and is now available on https://github.com/rapier1/hpn-ssh. This release incorporates OpenSSH 9.7p1. Fedora and Debian packages are also...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 26, 2024 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Simulated bacteria growing on a flat surface (left) versus on a sphere (right). The simulation recreates the growth of real bacteria raised in the lab; it also shows that when the microbes grow on progressively smaller curved surfaces, the areas of alignment become...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 13, 2024 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
By Kimberly Mann Bruch and Advay Shindikar, San Diego Supercomputer Center, and Ken Chiacchia, PSC Red-tailed boa. The species is classified as “vulnerable;” scientists would like to see it protected. A study of a devastating virus that affects it is providing clues...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 29, 2024 | AI, Bridges-2, News, Press release
Julie E. Elie and Boaz Styr, UC Berkeley Non-Gene Regulatory DNA Identified via Artificial Intelligence also Associated with Autism in Humans The vocalizations of humans, bats, whales, seals, and songbirds are vastly different from each other. Humans and birds, for...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 28, 2024 | AI, Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Adobe stock image: https://www.psc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AdobeStock_646474337-scaled.jpeg CMU Group Uses Bridges-2 to Create Virtual Plant to Learn from Veteran Engineers, and Next Train and Work with Rookies The people who keep our drinking water safe are...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 14, 2024 | AI, Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Pitt Team Uses Bridges-2 to Build Automated, Open-Source Toolbox, Enabling Conservation Scientists to Survey Much Larger Regions with Limited Staffing We live in a time when so many species are dying off — and due to our activity — that some scientists want to call it...
