by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 27, 2019 | Science Highlights
PSC Helps Scientists Understand Monkey Protein that Confers Immunity to HIV A monkey “host restriction” protein works by destabilizing HIV as it enters the cell, according to scientists at the University of Delaware and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). This...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 27, 2019 | Science Highlights
PSC Helps University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) Team Design Material to Capture and Turn CO2 into Useful Products A new material may be able to capture carbon dioxide and turn it into a commercially useful substance, according to a team at the University of Pittsburgh....
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 27, 2019 | Science Highlights
Anton 2 Helps Cornell Scientists Discover Unexpected Gate in Molecular “Credit Card Reader” A protein that scrambles the contents of the inner and outer surfaces of the cell membrane has an unexpected gate at its center, discovered by Weill Cornell Medical College...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 27, 2019 | Science Highlights
Bridges Simulations Explain Lab Results in pH-Dependent Life Process Large changes in protein-chain folding accompany a pH-dependent switch between the two modes of an important life process called electron transport, Georgia Institute of Technology scientists have...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 27, 2019 | Science Highlights
PSC Supplies Computation to Large Hadron Collider Group PSC is supplying computation for the world’s most powerful particle collider. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) scientists working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, in collaboration...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 27, 2019 | Science Highlights
PSC Helps UCLA-Led Team Identify Genes Associated with Surviving Climate Change A UCLA-led team has found they can predict whether birds are vulnerable to climate change by comparing their genes to their changing environments. Using PSC’s Bridges system, Rachael Bay...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 27, 2019 | AI, Bridges, Science Highlights
Machine Learning Enables Scientists to Spot “Comma-Shaped Clouds,” Extreme Weather Meteorologists can get time-critical help in spotting dangerous cloud formations using artificial intelligence (AI), according to scientists at Penn State and AccuWeather...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Science Highlights Spring 2019 This issue of PSC Science Highlights features artificial intelligence research to provide earlier warnings of life-threatening storms; copying a trick used by monkey cells to protect people from the AIDS virus; and reading the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 14, 2019 | Press release
Will Serve as Principal Scientific and Technical Adviser to PSC Director March 14, 2019 Nicholas Nystrom has been named chief scientist of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). In this newly created position, Nystrom will serve as the principal scientific...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 27, 2019 | Press release
Feb. 27, 2019 Alan D. George, PhD, the Ruth and Howard Mickle Endowed Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering and department chair and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering, has...
