by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 23, 2016 | 2016Press
XSEDE 2.0 earns $110M NSF award to expand nation’s cyberinfrastructure ecosystem Five-year award rewards national collaboration’s success in supporting advanced computational and data-enabled research and developing the Nation’s digital workforce Aug. 23, 2016...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 29, 2016 | 2016Press
Grable Grant Will Fund BEST, PSC’s STEM Secondary Education Program Aug. 1, 2016 High school teachers in southwest Pennsylvania will get training in advanced computing technologies in the biological sciences—bioinformatics—thanks to a $10,000 grant from the Grable...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 22, 2016 | 2016Press
A peer-reviewed report by researchers from the University of Puerto Rico and PSC surveying students at PSC’s MARC Summer Internship has won the Best Workforce Development and Diversity Paper at the XSEDE16 supercomputing conference. The investigators offer...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 21, 2016 | 2016Press
Making Big Data DANCE(S) XSEDE Project Successfully Tests Scheduled Networking of Big Data July 22, 2016 A project to make movement of the largest datasets more efficient has tested for the first time networking hardware components necessary for scheduling...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 19, 2016 | 2016Press
Study of PSC Internship Shows a Need To Go Beyond Traditional Outreach July 19, 2016 Bringing more minority students into the bioinformatics training pipeline may require a major rethink of STEM outreach to minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and more funding, a team...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 19, 2016 | 2016Press
Just in Time Virtual File System Will Save Vast Computer Storage Space by Processing Images on the Fly July 19, 2016 Researchers analyzing complex multidimensional images may be able to save hundreds of terabytes of disk space, a team from PSC reported at the XSEDE16...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 13, 2016 | Science Highlights
Wild Things Bridges Connects Evolutionary Biologists with Genomes of Wild Species July 13, 2016 Why the Sumatran Rhinoceros Is Important Depressing but true: things don’t look good for the Sumatran rhinoceros. This unique tropical species is all but extinct in the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 1, 2016 | Science Highlights
Island Time Extended Simulation on Anton Shows How Cell-Surface Molecules Cluster Why It’s Important: Virtually every process in human health and disease relies on signals getting across cell membranes—the flexible “bags” that enclose the contents...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 30, 2016 | 2016Press
Experts from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and their collaborators will present a number of topics at XSEDE16, the fifth annual conference of the NSF-funded Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). XSEDE16 will take place at the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 21, 2016 | 2016Press
Drones Could Be Cheaper Alternative in Delivering Vaccines Unmanned aerial vehicles could also improve vaccination rates in low- and middle-income countries June 21, 2016 Unmanned drone delivery of vaccines may save money and improve vaccination rates in low- and...
