by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 18, 2020 | Science Highlights
Microscopic—and Huge Bridges Powers Visualization of Whole Viruses at Atomic Level An image can help human beings make connections. That’s why a scientist from Catholic University of America is using the large-memory nodes of PSC’s Bridges platform to put together...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 17, 2020 | AI, Bridges, Science Highlights
Woodblock of an early printing press of the type used to create the Aeropagitica. By Jost Amman -Meggs, Philip B. A History of Graphic Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1998. (p 64), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2777036 Freedom,...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 17, 2020 | AI, Bridges, Science Highlights
A Galactic Choice Artificial Intelligence Running on Bridges Surpasses Humans at Classifying Galaxies New telescope surveys are discovering hundreds of millions of new galaxies—far more than humans can classify. A National Center for Supercomputing Applications...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 17, 2020 | Science Highlights
Tsunami. Photo by George Despiris from Pexels. Big Waves Happen Here, Too Bridges Simulations Chart Out Worst-Case Tsunami Scenarios for U.S. East Coast Recent tsunamis have killed hundreds of thousands and done vast economic damage. But even areas not known for big...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 17, 2020 | Science Highlights
Chimpanzee maxilla (upper jaw bone). Looking a Hominid in the Mouth Chimpanzee “Oral Microbiome” Shows Surprising Frequency of Species Linked to Human Disease Oral health may have a surprising impact on overall health. But scientists still don’t fully understand which...
by Deb Nigra | Jan 16, 2020 | News
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by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 13, 2019 | Press release
16th Annual HPCwire Awards Given to Leaders in the Global HPC Community Nov. 18, 2019 For the 10th year, PSC has been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards. HPCwire, the leading trade publication in the high performance computing...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
This issue of PSC Science Highlights features “Deep learning” Artificial Intelligence that promises fewer false alarms and early prediction of breast cancer development; atomistic models which explain and predict the transfer of heat between aluminum and black...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 17, 2019 | Press release
Oct. 17, 2019 Shawn Brown has been selected as the next director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Brown, whose work uses high performance computing,...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 9, 2019 | Collaborations, Press release
HuBMAP Consortium Charts out Goals for Navigable 3D Map in Article in Nature Oct. 9, 2019 A national collaboration of scientists has taken the first steps to creating a 3D map of the human body, down to the level of single cells and smaller. In an article in the...
