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 | Oct 9, 2014 | 2014Press
PSC to Provide HPC Resources, Expertise to University of Pittsburgh Biomedical Big Data Project Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Pittsburgh an $11 million, four-year grant to lead a Big Data to Knowledge Center of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 14, 2013 | 2013Press
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Receives Four HPCwire Awards Awards Recognize Outstanding Achievements in Science and Technology Monday, Nov. 18, 2013 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has received top national honors in four categories of the 2013 HPCwire...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 11, 2013 | 2013Press
Blacklight Research Spurs Change in Stock Exchange Rules July 15, 2013 Findings on the effects of “odd lot” trades on the financial markets, using computations on PSC’s Blacklight, have led the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market and the Financial...