by Chris Csonka | Aug 31, 2023 | Features
I sat down with Mariah Kenney, one of our PSC Data Curator and Metadata Librarians to talk about her work with the Brain Image Library (BIL) and other projects. CC: Mariah, welcome. When we bumped into each other in the lunchroom today we talked a little about your...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 31, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
One of the patterns the CMU team used to prove that 14 colors/numbers isn’t enough to solve the packing problem; note that, in the upper left, the “chessboard” pattern of 1s is interrupted. CMU Team Uses Bridges-2 to Solve a 21-Year-Old Coloring Problem in Mapping...
by Chris Csonka | Aug 22, 2023 | Features
In this interview Chris Csonka and Megan Carroll talk with Data Curator and Metadata Librarians Brendan Honick and Jackie Uranic about their work and projects at PSC. CC: Brendan and Jackie, welcome. What is your role here at PSC? What’s your...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 17, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Left: Microscope image of the healthy neuromuscular junction (NMJ). Bright spots are where a fluorescent-label has stuck to muscle-cell-surface proteins that respond to neurotransmitters. Upper Right: MCell model of healthy mouse NMJ active zones (AZs). Six AZs are...
by Erica Anderson | Aug 17, 2023 | Employment
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, was established in 1986, and for over 30 years has provided university, government, and industrial researchers with access to several of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 14, 2023 | AI, Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Initial Work With PSC System Pilots AI That Went On to Predict Colorectal Cancer Genetic Status That Would Otherwise Require Lengthy Lab Testing Diagnosing cancer relies heavily on human expertise and lengthy genetic testing, which aren’t always available. A team from...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 21, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
The dishes of the HERA radio telescope collect radio wave signals from the “21-centimeter line,” when hydrogen atoms in the early Universe absorbed energy from the first stars. PSC Supercomputer Helps Set Upper Limit to “Brightness Temperature” of Hydrogen Signal,...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 8, 2023 | Anton 2, Science Highlights
Snapshot of the β2AR–Gs system: NE(+)-bound β2AR coupled with Gs protein. Different subunits and loops are illustrated by different colors (Green – β2AR, Gray – intracellular loop 3 or ICL3, Pink – GsαAH domain, Red – GsαRas domain, Blue – Gβ, Yellow – Gγ). From Y....
by Ken Chiacchia | May 25, 2023 | AI, Bridges-2, Science Highlights
TrajAir dataset includes recorded ADS-B trajectories of aircraft interacting in a non-towered general aviation airport and the weather context from METAR strings. TrajAirNet predicts multi-future samples (cyan) of trajectories for all agents by conditioning each on...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 10, 2023 | AI, Science Highlights
Predictions made by the BirdFlow AI on how the American woodcock migrates in North America between eBird “snapshots.” From Fuentes, M., Van Doren, B. M., Fink, D., & Sheldon, D. (2023). BirdFlow: Learning seasonal bird movements from eBird data. Methods in Ecology...
