by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 6, 2011 | 2010Press
H1N1 Modeling Shows Short-Term School Closures May Worsen Flu Pandemics PITTSBURGH, PA., January 19, 2010 – Closing schools for less than two weeks during a flu pandemic may increase infection rates and prolong an epidemic, according to results from...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 6, 2011 | 2010Press
SAFE-Net Workshop Reaches Across Pennsylvania SAFE-Net, a program of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, funded by the National Science Foundation, has reached across Pennsylvania to raise awareness about safe practices in use of the Internet. PITTSBURGH, PA.,...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 1, 2011 | 2011Press
XSEDE Holds First Quarterly Meeting at PSC PITTSBURGH, September 1, 2011 — Hosted by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, the first quarterly meeting of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), was held in Pittsburgh from August 30 to...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 23, 2011 | 2011Press
PSC’s Blacklight Supports Direct Cosmological Simulations of the Growth of Black Holes and Galaxies
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 16, 2011 | 2011Press
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Collaboration with Harvard Pioneers a New Approach in Brain Study Prodigious data-transmission, management and image processing made it possible to map the connections between individual brain cells identified according to function...
by Deb Nigra | Aug 15, 2011 | CAST
CAST: Computation and Science for Teachers The CAST program proposes to bring to the classroom the same problem-solving, technology-rich approaches currently used in scientific research and in business. Computational science has become a powerful paradigm to...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 5, 2011 | 2011Press
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Scientific Director Appointed to National Library of Medicine Board of Regents PITTSBURGH, August 5, 2011 — Ralph Roskies, scientific co-director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, has been appointed to the Board of Regents of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 26, 2011 | 2011Press
New “Memory Advantage Program” on Blacklight at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center PITTSBURGH, July 26, 2011 — Blacklight, the SGI Altix UV 1000 system at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), available to researchers nationally through the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 25, 2011 | 2011Press
XSEDE project brings advanced cyberinfrastructure, digital services, and expertise to nation’s scientists and engineers PITTSBURGH, July 25, 2011 — A partnership of 17 institutions today announced the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)....
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 21, 2011 | 2011Press, Anton, Anton 2, Science Highlights
Protein Research Leaps Forward with Anton at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Special-purpose supercomputer’s stay is extended, with new round of time allocations PITTSBURGH, July 21, 2011 — Using a special-purpose supercomputer for biomolecular simulation, U.S....