by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 13, 2016 | Science Highlights
Wild Things Bridges Connects Evolutionary Biologists with Genomes of Wild Species July 13, 2016 Why the Sumatran Rhinoceros Is Important Depressing but true: things don’t look good for the Sumatran rhinoceros. This unique tropical species is all but extinct in the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 30, 2016 | 2016Press
Experts from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and their collaborators will present a number of topics at XSEDE16, the fifth annual conference of the NSF-funded Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). XSEDE16 will take place at the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 23, 2015 | 2015Press
PSC Helps Power Human-AI Poker Match-Up Friday, April 24, 2015 First, Deep Blue came for Kasparov, besting the world’s top-ranked chess player in 1997. Then Watson beat Jeopardy!’s best and brightest in 2011. Now Claudico, a program developed at Carnegie Mellon...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 5, 2015 | 2015Press
Dig, Simulations on PSC’s Blacklight Suggest Extinction Refuge, Trigger for Modern Human Behavior Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015 PSC’s Blacklight supercomputer features prominently in an International Science Grid this Week story about Curtis Marean of Arizona...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 23, 2014 | 2014Press
PSC directors discuss role of supercomputing in Post-Gazette op/ed Monday, June 23, 2014 Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s scientific directors, have written an op/ed piece that appeared in yesterday’s Sunday...
