by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 14, 2019 | Press release
Will Serve as Principal Scientific and Technical Adviser to PSC Director March 14, 2019 Nicholas Nystrom has been named chief scientist of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). In this newly created position, Nystrom will serve as the principal scientific...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 27, 2019 | Press release
Feb. 27, 2019 Alan D. George, PhD, the Ruth and Howard Mickle Endowed Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering and department chair and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering, has...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 12, 2018 | Press release
PSC Receives Best-Ever Six 2018 HPCwire Awards Awards Recognize Leaders in the Global high performance Computing (HPC) Community Nov. 13, 2018 The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has topped its best-ever performance of last year by receiving six 2018 HPCwire...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 12, 2018 | Press release
Last month, PSC received an NVIDIA DGX-2, the world’s most powerful deep learning system for the most complex challenges. The DGX-2 is the first 2 petaFLOPS system that combines 16 fully interconnected GPUs for 10X the deep learning performance. These photos show,...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 15, 2018 | Press release
National Science Foundation Grant renewal will support expansion of programs supporting genome biology research Oct. 15, 2018 The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has received $289,203 in National Science Foundation (NSF) funding for its work as part of the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 9, 2018 | Press release
Illustration of the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, detecting the results of a proton-proton collision. Reproduced with permission from CERN. CMS Experiment Using Bridges Supercomputer to Simulate Collisions for Upgraded LHC Particle Accelerator Oct. 10,...