by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 11, 2013 | 2013Press
Blacklight Research Spurs Change in Stock Exchange Rules July 15, 2013 Findings on the effects of “odd lot” trades on the financial markets, using computations on PSC’s Blacklight, have led the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market and the Financial...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 2, 2013 | 2013Press
2014 Pennsylvania State Budget Includes $500,000 for Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center July 2, 2013 The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania budget signed by Gov. Tom Corbett on June 30 includes a $500,000 line item for PSC. “This is very good news for PSC and for the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 28, 2013 | 2013Press
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Numascale AS to Collaborate on Improved Memory Systems for Research June 28, 2013 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), Pennsylvania’s only National Science Foundation high performance computing facility, and Numascale AS, whose...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 21, 2013 | 2013Press
Opening the Flood Gates Argonne, PSC Staff Shepherd Internet2 Migration, Give XSEDE Network Bandwidth Needed for Big Data Era Monday, June 24, 2013 Thanks to personnel at Argonne National Laboratory and PSC — chiefly Linda Winkler, senior network engineer, Argonne;...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 24, 2013 | 2013Press
Lack of Reliable Transportation Undermines Delivery of Lifesaving Vaccines University of Pittsburgh / Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Computer Simulations Highlight Need to Increase Focus on Vaccine Transport Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Transportation of vaccines is a...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 25, 2013 | 2013Press
PSC, Notre Dame to Supply Computer Infrastructure for Global Malaria Eradication Project Monday, April 29, 2013 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and the University of Notre Dame have received up to $1.6 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates...
by Deb Nigra | Apr 8, 2013 | Data Handling and Analytics
ZEST Overview The Zest file system is a patented, highly scalable parallel file system designed for maximum efficiency with write-intensive application workloads such as checkpointing. The name “Zest” was chosen due to Zest’s nature of preferring writing to the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 8, 2013 | 2013Press
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Scientists Patent Software for Protecting Supercomputing Results Against System Failures PITTSBURGH, April 8, 2013 — Scientists at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) have patented ZEST, a piece of software that takes a rapid...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 4, 2013 | 2013Press
Research Internships in Big Data Available at PSC The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint project of Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pittsburgh, and Westinghouse Electric Company, has openings for two undergraduate student interns to gain research...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 27, 2013 | 2013Press
Sherlock: The Next Big Thing in the Big Data World PSC’s Nick Nytrom talks about Sherlock, a uRiKA graph-analytics appliance from YarcData designed to discover unknown relationships or patterns hidden in extremely large and complex bodies of information....
