by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 2, 2020 | Science Highlights
Bridges Refines Protein Simulations, Approaching Lab Accuracy To understand how the tiny machinery of life works in health and disease, scientists need accurate pictures of how proteins fold and move. But laboratory methods for imaging proteins are slow, and so the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 19, 2020 | Science Highlights
Nonidentical Twins Anton 2 Simulations Show Curious Difference in Action of Paired Neurotransmitters The NMDA receptor protein underlies memory formation. It’s also an important target of drugs for conditions as different as depression, Alzheimer’s disease and...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 19, 2020 | Science Highlights
Picking Up the Beat Anton 2 Helps Identify Unexpected Pathway for Irregular-Heartbeat Drugs Irregular heartbeat—arrhythmia—causes a lot of sickness and death in the U.S. Some medications can treat arrhythmia, but they carry potentially serious side effects....
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 18, 2020 | Science Highlights
Microscopic—and Huge Bridges Powers Visualization of Whole Viruses at Atomic Level An image can help human beings make connections. That’s why a scientist from Catholic University of America is using the large-memory nodes of PSC’s Bridges platform to put together...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 17, 2020 | AI, Bridges, Science Highlights
Woodblock of an early printing press of the type used to create the Aeropagitica. By Jost Amman -Meggs, Philip B. A History of Graphic Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1998. (p 64), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2777036 Freedom,...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 17, 2020 | AI, Bridges, Science Highlights
A Galactic Choice Artificial Intelligence Running on Bridges Surpasses Humans at Classifying Galaxies New telescope surveys are discovering hundreds of millions of new galaxies—far more than humans can classify. A National Center for Supercomputing Applications...
