by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 4, 2021 | Press release
PSC’s Shawn Brown Speaks at U.N. Panel on Leveraging Data, AI for Alleviating Hunger Computer technology has a pivotal role to play in reducing world hunger and food disparity, said Shawn Brown, director of PSC, at the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit. But only...
by Megan Carroll | Jul 12, 2021 | Bridges-2, Press release
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has granted PSC $500,000 in its annual budget, signed by Governor Tom Wolf in late June. PSC received an appropriation of $500,000 in the 2021-22 PA budget recently signed by Governor Wolf. This inclusion within the Department of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 9, 2021 | Press release
PSC’s founding scientific directors, Michael Levine (left) and Ralph Roskies, with the center’s Cray X-MP. Today the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) celebrated the 35th anniversary of its first supercomputer. The National Science Board approved...
by PSC | May 19, 2021 | Press release
The McWilliams Center for Cosmology Seed Grant program supports faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and research staff who want to explore a new area of research and/or jumpstart their research activity. The program is designed to encourage genuine collaborations between...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 8, 2021 | Press release
Deadline for proposals for current allocation period is April 15 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved PSC’s new Bridges-2 system for production operations. PSC offers time on the NSF-funded, advanced research computing platform to researchers performing...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 31, 2021 | Press release
PSC Director Shawn Brown has been appointed vice chancellor for research computing at the University of Pittsburgh. Make no mistake: Brown remains director of PSC. He’s ours, we’re keeping him. Brown’s new appointment continues PSC’s strengthening relations with both...
