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...
by Deb Nigra | May 5, 2023 | What's new on Bridges-2
New documentation on best practices when using conda to create custom environments has been added to the Bridges-2 User Guide. Read the best practices documentation here. If you have any questions, please email help@psc.edu.
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 26, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Proof-of-concept work suggests applications in industrial processes, environmental monitoring, and medicine Polymer brushes are forests of molecular-sized chains extending from a surface. If they can be made to behave properly in the real world, they could form the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 12, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Work on Bridges-2 shows the approach can help explain persistence of some cultural practices as well as how culture changes over time Do human culture and practices evolve in a predictable way over time? A team from Carnegie Mellon University and the Santa Fe...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 29, 2023 | Science Highlights
Adobe Stock #527516305. Scientists leverage past MARC program to maintain competitive bioinformatics program at minority-serving institution Lucina pectinata is a clam that lives in mud flats among levels of hydrogen sulfide high enough to harm most animals....
by PSC | Mar 23, 2023 | Features
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is proud to highlight the work and life of our newest women team members for Women’s History Month Diane EshelmanProject Manager Diane Eshelman is a Project Manager working on some of our biggest projects, such as the Human...