by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 4, 2015 | Fall 2015
PSC’s Impact on Pennsylvania PSC provides a significant economic benefit to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In addition to supporting research, education and business activities throughout the Commonwealth, PSC consistently returns many times the state’s...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 4, 2015 | Science Highlights
Understanding CHOICE WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Understanding how human beings make decisions is critical in fields like cybersecurity, public health, elections and governance, and economics. How often do people make rational choices, weighing all the options? How often...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 4, 2015 | AI, Blacklight, Science Highlights
LIFE is NOT Chess COUNTED AS A LOSS OR A “STATISTICAL TIE,” POKER MATCHUP POINTS TO BETTER DECISION MAKING Life is not a chess game. The world is not a chessboard, with every piece visible. Life is more like a hand of poker, according to Tuomas Sandholm of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 18, 2015 | 2015Press
Blacklight’s Final Bow August 15, 2015 It’s rare for a HPC center to celebrate the decommissioning of a machine. However, Blacklight was so accomplished, we thought it deserved a special salute. Here’s what others had to say about this remarkable machine....
by Deb Nigra | Jul 9, 2015 | Data Handling and Analytics
SLASH2 SLASH2 is an open source, wide area network friendly distributed file system featuring multi residency, system-managed data distribution, data integrity verification, and much more. SLASH2 was created by PSC. When managing large data sets, several...
by Deb Nigra | Jun 10, 2015 | Resources for Educators
BEST Bioinformatics Education for STudents (BEST) exposes teachers to modern molecular biology concepts by incorporating computational biology and bioinformatics into their high school curriculum. BEST also prepares teachers to introduce their students to...
by Deb Nigra | May 28, 2015 | CAST
CAST: Resources & References Modeling Tools AgentSheets Inc: www.agentsheets.com NetLogo (Northwestern University): http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo Vensim: www.vensim.com A comparison of the modeling tools from PSC All Disciplines National Computational...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 7, 2015 | 2015Press
Study Suggests Vial Size Can Have Large Impact on Vaccine Supply Chain Thursday, May 7, 2015 Vaccine vial size – the total number of doses a single vaccine vial contains – can have a significant impact on vaccine distribution, costs and use, according to a new study...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 23, 2015 | 2015Press
PSC Helps Power Human-AI Poker Match-Up Friday, April 24, 2015 First, Deep Blue came for Kasparov, besting the world’s top-ranked chess player in 1997. Then Watson beat Jeopardy!’s best and brightest in 2011. Now Claudico, a program developed at Carnegie Mellon...
by Deb Nigra | Apr 21, 2015 | Events
Innovative Approaches to STEM Education Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Summer Institute July 6 – 17, 2015 The need for multidisciplinary skilled personnel is growing, with lucrative, secure careers in these areas on a steady rise. At the high school level students...
