PSC Archives - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC https://insidehpc.com/tag/psc/ At the Convergence of HPC, AI and Quantum Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:22:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://insidehpc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ihpc-favicon.png PSC Archives - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC https://insidehpc.com/tag/psc/ 32 32 57143778 PSC Interns to Represent US at ISC 2025 Student Competition https://insidehpc.com/2025/01/psc-interns-to-represent-us-at-isc-2025-student-competition/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:22:32 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=95443

Pittsburgh — A team of interns from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has been selected to represent the United States at an international high-performance computing (HPC) competition for students. PSC’s “Benchmark Beasts” will be one of 10 teams, and the only one from the U.S., chosen to compete in Hamburg at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC25) […]

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]]> 95443 GPU Boost: $5M NSF Enhancement for PSC’s Bridges-2 HPC https://insidehpc.com/2024/08/gpu-boost-5m-nsf-enhancement-for-pscs-bridges-2-hpc/ Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:35:58 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=94589

A $4.9-million award from the National Science Foundation has funded an upgrade to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer. The grant allows the center to add Nvidia H100 ....

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]]> 94589 NIH Funds $3.15M for Anton HPC at PSC https://insidehpc.com/2024/08/nih-funds-3-15m-for-anton-hpc-at-psc/ Mon, 05 Aug 2024 21:14:45 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=94544

Aug. 5, 2024 — The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center announced today that a third-generation Anton supercomputer (Anton 3), developed by D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES), will soon arrive at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). A $3.15-million, five-year award from the National Institutes of Health will fund the system’s operations, making it available without cost for non-commercial […]

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]]> 94544 James Barr von Oehsen Named Director of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center https://insidehpc.com/2023/02/james-barr-von-oehsen-named-director-of-pittsburgh-supercomputing-center/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:52:35 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=91038

James Barr von Oehsen has been selected as the director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Von Oehsen is a leader in the fields of cyberinfrastructure, research computing, advanced networking, data science and information technology. Von Oehsen joins PSC from New Jersey […]

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]]> 91038 NSF-funded Computer Program Receives $150,000 in Improvement Funding https://insidehpc.com/2022/05/nsf-funded-computer-program-receives-150000-in-improvement-funding/ Tue, 03 May 2022 13:13:12 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=89573 Work of a computer program to improve predictions of the physical behavior of industrially important materials, designed with leadership from Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, has been awarded $150,000 through the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Characteristic Science Applications (CSA) program. The 21 computer applications awarded reflect the broad range of science domains and computational approaches — from […]

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]]> 89573 PSC, NCSA, NCAR in $7.5M NSF Project Allocating Access on NSF Supercomputers https://insidehpc.com/2022/04/psc-ncsa-ncar-in-7-5m-nsf-project-allocating-access-on-nsf-supercomputers/ Fri, 22 Apr 2022 17:02:28 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=89525 April 22, 2022 — The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $7.5 million over five years to the Resource Allocations Marketplace and Platform Services (RAMPS) project, a next-generation system for awarding computing time in the NSF’s network of supercomputers. Led by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint program of Carnegie Mellon University and […]

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]]> 89525 PSC’s Neocortex HPC Upgrades to Cerebras CS-2 AI Systems https://insidehpc.com/2022/04/pscs-neocortex-hpc-upgrades-to-cerebras-cs-2-ai-systems/ Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:18:19 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=89456

The Neocortex high-performance AI computer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has been upgraded with two new Cerebras CS-2 systems powered by the second-generation wafer-scale engine (WSE-2) processor. PSC said the WSE-2 doubles the system’s cores and on-chip memory as well as offering a new execution mode designed for extreme-scale deep-learning tasks, including larger model […]

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]]> 89456 $125M in NIH Grants to Study Cellular Aging to Be Coordinated by PSC and Other Pittsburgh Institutions https://insidehpc.com/2021/10/125m-in-nih-grants-to-study-cellular-aging-to-be-coordinated-by-psc-and-other-pittsburgh-institutions/ Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:34:54 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=88554 Oct. 20, 2021 — National Institute of Health grants totaling approximately $125 million over five years to 16 U.S. institutions will fund research to explore the human body at the molecular level, studying how cells and tissues age and the role cellular aging plays in health and disease. Coordinated by scientists in Pittsburgh, the Cellular […]

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]]> 88554 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Receives Proclamations Celebrating 35 Years https://insidehpc.com/2021/10/pittsburgh-supercomputing-center-receives-proclamations-celebrating-35-years/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 17:41:26 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=88492 Oct. 7, 2021 – Local, state and federal officials have recognized the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s (PSC’s) 35-year anniversary. US Congressman Mike Doyle; Governor Tom Wolf; PA State Senators Pat Stefano and John Sabatina; PA State Representatives Donna Oberlander, Austin Davis, and Brandon Markosek; Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald; and Mayor of Pittsburgh Bill Peduto have all […]

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]]> 88492 HPC vs. HIV-1: Stampede2, Bridges and Darwin Uncover Nucleotide Infection Process https://insidehpc.com/2021/04/hpc-vs-hiv-1-stampede2-bridges-and-darwin-uncover-nucleotide-infection-process/ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 16:38:00 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=87256

By Jorge Salazar, Science Writer, Texas Advanced Computing Center Viruses lurk in the grey area between the living and the nonliving, according to scientists. Like living things, they replicate but they don’t do it on their own. The HIV-1 virus, like all viruses, needs to hijack a host cell through infection in order to make copies […]

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