by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
From the Interim Director Welcome to the Fall 2018 issue of PSC Science Highlights! We continue our ongoing project to make PSC ever more relevant, agile, and tuned to the needs of the scientific community. The past six months have seen us reorganize to better exploit...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
NSF Extends Funding for PSC’s Bridges System PSC’s groundbreaking Bridges supercomputer will provide value to the research community for an additional year, extending operations through November 2020, thanks to $1.9 million in added operational funding from the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 28, 2018 | Science Highlights
CMU Group Uses PSC’s Bridges to Nail Down Cause in Brain Region Activity Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures brain activity as it happens. But on the surface, it’s hard to tell whether activity in one part of the brain is caused by activity in...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 28, 2018 | Science Highlights
University of Pennsylvania Team Uses PSC Systems to Explain Puzzling Lab Results The progressive memory loss of Alzheimer’s disease is devastating. Doctors have known for more than 100 years that plaques of clumped-together protein form...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 28, 2018 | Science Highlights
PSC Experts and Resources Enable Simulation of Non-steady Forces on Wind Turbines Rough winds are an issue for generating electricity from wind power. They can cause early failure of turbine components that limit the method’s monetary bottom line....
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 28, 2018 | Science Highlights
Bridges Helps Univ. of Chicago Team Simulate Cell Movement, Upending Scientific Expectations The movement of white blood cells to fight infections and the spread of cancer cells both rely on the same natural process. The cell reaches out to a new surface with a...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 28, 2018 | Science Highlights
Bridges Simulations plus Lab Work on Frog Neuromuscular Junction Sheds Light on Human Diseases When a nerve cell passes a message to its neighbors, it must do so via chemicals sent across the synapse—a small space between the cells. Early researchers studied a synapse...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 28, 2018 | Science Highlights
Identification of Cosmic-Ray Source by IceCube Neutrino Observatory Depended on Global Collaboration, PSC’s Bridges Four billion years ago—before the first life had developed on Earth—a massive black hole shot a proton out at nearly the speed of light. A result of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 27, 2018 | Science Highlights
“Sticky and Loose Ends” Shed Light on Heart Health Anton 2 Shows how APOA1 Protein Ends Link to Hold Together “the Good Cholesterol” Until recently, scientists couldn’t agree how the protein APOA1 holds together the “good cholesterol” that protects us from heart...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 26, 2018 | Collaborations, Press release
NIH to Fund Mapping System for Human Tissues PSC and Pitt to Build Computing Infrastructure for Molecular Atlas; Will Allow Biologists to Explore the Human Body in Cellular Detail A collaboration of Pittsburgh institutions will play a key role in enabling biologists...
