Construction Begun on Leadership-Class Computing Facility

by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 11, 2024 | AI, Collaborations, Consulting, Data Handling and Analytics, LCCF, News, Press release, Research, Resources, Software, Systems

$5 Million in NSF Funding Will Allow PSC to Provide Data-Intensive Computing and Data Mirroring to TACC-Led, Distributed System It’s a high performance computing system so large and powerful that it will take five supercomputing centers to build and run it! Today the...

Bridges-2 Sims Shed Light on the Echoes of Toothed Whales

by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 3, 2024 | Bridges-2, Research, Science Highlights

By Kimberly Mann Bruch, SDSC Communications, and Ken Chiacchia, PSC Virtual Dolphin Head Shows How Sound Moves through the Skull, Suggesting How Sounds May Offer Directional Cues for Navigation and Detection Whales navigate, find food, and communicate over vast...

Voltage-sensing Protein Moves in Unexpected Ways in Anton Simulations

by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 3, 2024 | Anton 2, Research, Science Highlights

This image shows the complexity of simulating the functional movements of the voltage-sensitive phosphatase’s motions. Anton 2 enables scientists to reproduce the movements of the protein’s components, as well as the lipids (grey, with the headgroups colored), water...

Brain Data Archive

by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 12, 2017 | Research

The Brain Archive motivation Advancements in the field of microscopy and imaging have pushed the boundaries of what was once thought possible in many fields of research. The amount of data generated by these advancements has increased to a point where conventional...

Biomedical Applications Group

by Deb Nigra | Feb 11, 2014 | Research

Biomedical Applications Group This image shows an MCell simulation of synaptic vesicle release at the frog neuromuscular junction. It was generated via CellBlender. https://www.cmu.edu/legal/ The Biomedical Applications Group at the PSC pursues leading edge research...

$178,000 Grant for Tool to Spot Network Glitches

by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 29, 2013 | 2013Press, Web10G, Web10G News

Web10G Project Will Create User-Friendly “Dashboard” for Identifying, Fixing Data Slowdowns Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 The Web10G Project has received a one-year, $178,000 Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) supplemental award from the National Science...