by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
PSC RECEIVES FOUR NATIONAL AWARDS In November, PSC received top national honors in four categories of the 2013 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards. HPCwire, the premier trade publication for the high performance computing (HPC) community, announced the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
Anton shows how water leaving, re-entering potassium channel structure delays return to active state WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The potassium channel helps create electrical signals in nerve and muscle cells. This process goes awry in some irregular heartbeat...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
PSC Takes Lead in XSEDE Summer Research Experience Program Young career seekers in the high performance computing (HPC) field often face a familiar problem. You can’t get the job without experience. But another hitch confronts would-be “super computors”...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
Anton Simulations Reveal How Dangerous Bacteria Install Critical Proteins Why It’s Important In an era of diminishing antibiotic effectiveness, it’s no wonder that bacteria, how they live—and what molecular components they can’t live without—are an...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
PSC Advanced Networking Group Expands Networking Capabilities for Region, World In the era of “Big Data,” the challenge of moving the vastly expanded data volumes created and needed by today’s researchers has become central. The old network—the equivalent of an...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
PSC Cybersecurity Group Uses Technology, User Savvy,to Guard Supercomputing Resources Nationwide Luckily, the woman was smart. When a waiter brought her a phone, saying her credit card company was calling her, she smelled a rat. The caller, claiming to...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
Large Dark Matter Halos Favor Growth of Larger Early Galaxies Nov. 20, 2015 WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Few scientific questions are as fundamental, or fascinating, as the origin of the Universe. And we can see the early Universe. The farthest galaxies from us are so far away...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Spring 2014
Blacklight Used to Extract Meaning from Cursive Script, Allowing Scanned Documents to be Searched Step 1: Correct rotations and reduce smudges and bleeds to produce a spreadsheet-like document with identifiable cells. Step 2: Create a statistical picture...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014, Science Highlights, Science Highlights Overview pages, Spring 2014
Welcome once again to Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s biannual report, featuring the pathbreaking projects being pursued by our users, our staff and our students. We’re very pleased in this issue to cover a broad spectrum of work, including research, technical...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 7, 2014 | 2014Press
PSC Developing Networking Tool to Speed Big Data Transfers DANCES will create virtual “HOV lane” for larger scientific users in Internet2 Tuesday, April 8, 2014 A new, $1 million National Science Foundation grant will enable engineers at Pittsburgh...
