by Deb Nigra | Oct 24, 2016 | Resources for Educators
Data Jam The goal of the Data Jam is to introduce Pittsburgh high school students to big data and data analytics, to better understand its impact on their lives as individuals and to raise awareness of new career options created by the advent of big data....
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 27, 2016 | Features
N.C. High School to Use Bridges for Computational Chemistry Projects Sept. 27, 2016 The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM), a public high school for academically talented juniors and seniors from across the state, has received an allocation on...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 7, 2016 | Science Highlights
Gut Check Bridges Reveals Interaction between Diabetes and Digestive-Tract Microbes Sept. 7, 2016 Why It’s Important: Many people appreciate how serious diabetes is: it can cause blindness, nerve pain and lack of circulation in the limbs that leads to...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 30, 2016 | 2016Press
Bridges Supercomputer Enters Production NSF Deems PSC’s HPC+Big Data Computational Resource Operational Allocations Available Aug. 31, 2016 The Bridges system at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) entered production operations last month, in support of...
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...
