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Enhancing Hurricane Forecasts: A Game-Changer in Lessening Catastrophic Impacts

A team from the University of Houston found that, when they reduced estimates of atmospheric friction of storms, their predictions on PSC’s Bridges-2 improved markedly over standard storm predictions. This advancement promises better planning to...
26-Sep-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

$4.9-Million NSF Award Funds Major Enhancement to Bridges-2 System

$4.9 million from the NSF has funded an upgrade to PSC’s flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer. The grant has allowed the center to add late-model powerful NVIDIA H100 GPUs to the system, further enhancing its ability to support research in and...
13-Aug-2024 9:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

$3.15 million from NIH to Fund Operation of Third-Generation Anton Supercomputer at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

A third-generation Anton supercomputer, developed by D. E. Shaw Research, will soon arrive at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. A $3.15-million, five-year award from the National Institutes of Health will fund the system's operations, making it...
5-Aug-2024 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Bridges-2 Helps Retrain AIs to Avoid Creating Offensive Pictures for Specific Cultures

A Carnegie Mellon University-led team has used the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Bridges-2 system and input from different cultures to develop an effective fine-tuning approach for retraining a popular image generator so that it can generate...
3-Jun-2024 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Similar Genetic Elements Underlie Vocal Learning in Bats, Whales, and Seals

In a paper in the prestigious journal Science to appear on Feb. 29, 2024, a multi-institutional team led by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and University of California at Berkeley found parts of the genome, both within genes and outside of...
25-Feb-2024 8:00 PM EST Add to Favorites

PSC’s Neocortex Among Elite Artificial Intelligence Computers Selected for National AI Research Resource Pilot Project

PSC’s Neocortex AI system is among six national AI supercomputers participating in a pilot program to support novel and transformative AI research and education at a national scale.
24-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Recognized for Advances in Clean Energy Technology, Application of New Technology to Industrial Problem

A potential way to turn coal into clean-energy graphite and carbon nanotubes and an application of a bleeding-edge computing technology to speed up a classical but difficult turbulence problem have earned two HPCwire Awards for the Pittsburgh...
9-Nov-2023 1:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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IceCube Observatory Creates First Map of Milky Way Without Using Electromagnetic Waves

We’ve learned a lot about the Universe from telescopes that are sensitive to anything from high-energy gamma waves to visible light to low-energy radio waves. But detecting such electromagnetic waves has limitations.
26-Oct-2023 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites


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The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is a joint computational research center with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Established in 1986, PSC is supported by several federal agencies and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and is a leading partner in ACCESS, the National Science Foundation cyber infrastructure program.

PSC provides university, government and industrial researchers with access to several of the most powerful systems for high-performance computing, communications and data storage available to scientists and engineers nationwide for unclassified research. PSC advances the state of the art in high-performance computing, communications and data analytics and offers a flexible environment for solving the largest and most challenging problems in computational science.

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