by PSC | Oct 6, 2023 | Features
PSC has a longstanding tradition of providing internship opportunities to undergraduate researchers in fields related to advanced computing. This year we had seven students on board learning valuable research and technical skills for their upcoming classes and future...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 27, 2023 | Science Highlights
Top to bottom: Maps of the Milky Way galaxy based on low-energy radio waves, visible light, high-energy gamma rays, and the new map based on neutrino emissions. Simulations on PSC’s Bridges-2 System Help Identify Signals in Huge Antarctic Ice Sheet Neutrino Detector...
by Chris Rapier | Sep 20, 2023 | HPN-SSH
We are pleased to announce that HPN-SSH 18.1.0 has been released and is now available on https://github.com/rapier1/hpn-ssh. This version introduces a parallel ChaCha20-Poly1305 cipher that is 59% faster than OpenSSH 9.4. Packages for Ubuntu and Fedora will be...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 13, 2023 | Science Highlights
Village market locations (left) and wholesale market locations (right) in the Indian state of Odisha. Getting vegetables from farms to wholesale locations to more than 5,000 village markets proved a challenge in translating increased vegetable production to more...
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 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,...
