by Deb Nigra | Feb 28, 2023 | Neocortex events
Webinar: Neocortex Spring 2023 Call for Proposals Presented on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 2:00 – 3:00 pm (ET), by Paola A. Buitrago, Neocortex, Principal Investigator & Project Director and Director, AI and Big Data, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center;...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 20, 2023 | Press release
James Barr von Oehsen James Barr von Oehsen has been selected as the director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Von Oehsen is a leader in the fields of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 15, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
The two, massive neutron stars merge with a great gravitational clang — but little electromagnetic signal gets out. Scientists had not predicted absence of electromagnetic signal in 2019 detection A collision of two massive neutron stars detected by gravity-wave...
by Chris Rapier | Feb 14, 2023 | HPN-SSH
We are pleased to announce that HPN-SSH 17v11 has been released and is now available on https://github.com/rapier1/openssh-portable. This version brings HPN-SSH up to parity with OpenSSH 9.2 and resolves a number of minor bugs. Patches and binary packages will be...
by Chris Csonka | Feb 9, 2023 | Features
Chris Rapier, Senior Research Programmer at PSC From the beginning, Chris and the team have worked to make HPN-SSH ubiquitous, easy to use, and setup-free for data transfers. These efforts are part of the team’s goal to continuously enhance the scientific...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 7, 2023 | Neocortex, Press release
Running on Cerebras CS-2 within PSC’s Neocortex, NETL Simulates Natural Convection with Multi-Hundred Million Cell Resolutions, Pointing the Way to More Powerful, Energy Efficient and Insightful Scientific Computing Cerebras Systems, the pioneer in high performance...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 2, 2023 | AI, Bridges-2, Press release
Tuomas Sandholm inspects PSC’s Bridges-2 supercomputer AAAI award cites Tuomas Sandholm’s work on improving organ donation exchanges with AI Tuomas Sandholm’s work since 2010 to improve the fairness and effectiveness of organ donations using PSC supercomputers...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 1, 2023 | AI, Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Bridges-2-powered AI matches life-critical performance of other AI and non-AI alternatives — unlike them, its “thinking” is understandable to humans Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed our lives, giving us a tool for vastly better-informed decision making....
by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 18, 2023 | Anton 2, Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Different numbers of kinks in the iGlu-R protein from glutamate binding to the outside of channel cause its central pore (seen from the top looking down) to open progressively, allowing different levels of ion current to pass through. From Yelshanskaya, M.V., Patel,...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jan 5, 2023 | AI, Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Time series (left to right) showing two examples of how the random carbons in the artificial “coal” coalesce into graphite-like sheets under pressure and heat. The sheets aren’t perfectly flat because of the formation of a small number of five- and seven-member rings...
