Latest news from Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center on News en-us Copyright 2024 News 115 31 / /images/newswise-logo-rss.gif /articles/evolution-of-vocalization-ai-training-of-new-water-treatment-engineers-and-ai-resource-collaboration-underlie-three-hpcwire-awards-to-pittsburgh-supercomputing-center/?sc=rsin /articles/evolution-of-vocalization-ai-training-of-new-water-treatment-engineers-and-ai-resource-collaboration-underlie-three-hpcwire-awards-to-pittsburgh-supercomputing-center/?sc=rsin Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:00:00 EST Parkinson's research, a genetic commonality among very different species that learn how to vocalize, an AI-based water treatment training simulator, and a national AI collaboration underlie four annual HPCwire Awards won by PSC this year. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/enhancing-hurricane-forecasts-a-game-changer-in-lessening-catastrophic-impacts/?sc=rsin /articles/enhancing-hurricane-forecasts-a-game-changer-in-lessening-catastrophic-impacts/?sc=rsin Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:05:41 EST 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 lessen the effects of storms on people and possibly aid emergency storm responses. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/4-9-million-nsf-award-funds-major-enhancement-to-bridges-2-system/?sc=rsin /articles/4-9-million-nsf-award-funds-major-enhancement-to-bridges-2-system/?sc=rsin Tue, 13 Aug 2024 09:00:46 EST $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 requiring artificial intelligence, particularly in the context of massive data and high-performance computing. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/3-15-million-from-nih-to-fund-operation-of-third-generation-anton-supercomputer-at-pittsburgh-supercomputing-center/?sc=rsin /articles/3-15-million-from-nih-to-fund-operation-of-third-generation-anton-supercomputer-at-pittsburgh-supercomputing-center/?sc=rsin Mon, 05 Aug 2024 12:05:45 EST 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 available without cost for non-commercial use by biomedical researchers at U.S. universities and other nonprofit institutions. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/bridges-2-helps-retrain-ais-to-avoid-creating-offensive-pictures-for-specific-cultures/?sc=rsin /articles/bridges-2-helps-retrain-ais-to-avoid-creating-offensive-pictures-for-specific-cultures/?sc=rsin Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:05:50 EST 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 equitable images for underrepresented cultures. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/similar-genetic-elements-underlie-vocal-learning-in-bats-whales-and-seals/?sc=rsin /articles/similar-genetic-elements-underlie-vocal-learning-in-bats-whales-and-seals/?sc=rsin Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:00:00 EST 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 them, that evolved and are associated with vocal learning across mammals. These elements have been linked to autism in humans. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/psc-s-neocortex-among-elite-artificial-intelligence-computers-for-national-ai-research-resource-pilot-project/?sc=rsin /articles/psc-s-neocortex-among-elite-artificial-intelligence-computers-for-national-ai-research-resource-pilot-project/?sc=rsin Wed, 24 Jan 2024 11:05:41 EST 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. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/pittsburgh-supercomputing-center-recognized-for-advances-in-clean-energy-technology-application-of-new-technology-to-industrial-problem/?sc=rsin /articles/pittsburgh-supercomputing-center-recognized-for-advances-in-clean-energy-technology-application-of-new-technology-to-industrial-problem/?sc=rsin Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:00:00 EST 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 Supercomputing Center (PSC) and its collaborating institutions. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/icecube-observatory-creates-first-map-of-milky-way-without-using-electromagnetic-waves/?sc=rsin /articles/icecube-observatory-creates-first-map-of-milky-way-without-using-electromagnetic-waves/?sc=rsin Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:05:30 EST 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. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/increasing-vegetable-crops-won-t-ease-hunger-if-supply-chains-don-t-keep-pace/?sc=rsin /articles/increasing-vegetable-crops-won-t-ease-hunger-if-supply-chains-don-t-keep-pace/?sc=rsin Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:05:14 EST We might think that, if you want to feed more people in areas with food insecurity, you can just grow more food. But it isn't that simple. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/collection-of-articles-reports-advances-in-building-cellular-organization-maps-of-the-human-body/?sc=rsin /articles/collection-of-articles-reports-advances-in-building-cellular-organization-maps-of-the-human-body/?sc=rsin Wed, 19 Jul 2023 12:05:31 EST A set of nine scientific papers was released today in the Nature family of journals and the journal Cell Reports describing breakthroughs in creating an open framework for scientists to map the individual cells of the human body in two and three dimensions. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/james-barr-von-oehsen-named-director-of-the-pittsburgh-supercomputing-center/?sc=rsin /articles/james-barr-von-oehsen-named-director-of-the-pittsburgh-supercomputing-center/?sc=rsin Mon, 20 Feb 2023 10:00:50 EST 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. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/national-energy-technology-laboratory-and-pittsburgh-supercomputing-center-pioneer-first-ever-computational-fluid-dynamics-simulation-on-cerebras-wafer-scale-engine/?sc=rsin /articles/national-energy-technology-laboratory-and-pittsburgh-supercomputing-center-pioneer-first-ever-computational-fluid-dynamics-simulation-on-cerebras-wafer-scale-engine/?sc=rsin Tue, 07 Feb 2023 09:00:58 EST Cerebras Systems, the pioneer in high performance artificial intelligence (AI) compute, today announced, for the first time ever, the simulation of a high-resolution natural convection workload at near real-time rates. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/cmu-research-supported-by-psc-wins-artificial-intelligence-award/?sc=rsin /articles/cmu-research-supported-by-psc-wins-artificial-intelligence-award/?sc=rsin Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:00:21 EST Tuomas Sandholm's work since 2010 to improve the fairness and effectiveness of organ donations using PSC supercomputers has won the 2023 AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/ohio-university-simulations-on-psc-supercomputer-transform-coal-like-material-to-amorphous-graphite-and-nanotubes/?sc=rsin /articles/ohio-university-simulations-on-psc-supercomputer-transform-coal-like-material-to-amorphous-graphite-and-nanotubes/?sc=rsin Thu, 05 Jan 2023 09:00:59 EST A team at Ohio University used the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Bridges-2 system to carry out a series of simulations showing how coal might eventually be converted to valuable -- and carbon-neutral -- materials like graphite and carbon nanotubes. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/psc-receives-honors-for-ai-driven-automated-discovery-of-mri-agents-and-control-of-fluid-flow-heat-and-stress/?sc=rsin /articles/psc-receives-honors-for-ai-driven-automated-discovery-of-mri-agents-and-control-of-fluid-flow-heat-and-stress/?sc=rsin Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:00:00 EST Science performed with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's advanced research computers has been recognized with two HPCwire Editors' Choice Awards, presented at the SC22 conference in Dallas, Texas. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/20-million-in-renewed-grants-from-nih-will-provide-data-infrastructure-and-leadership-to-international-collaboration-to-map-human-body-at-cellular-resolution/?sc=rsin /articles/20-million-in-renewed-grants-from-nih-will-provide-data-infrastructure-and-leadership-to-international-collaboration-to-map-human-body-at-cellular-resolution/?sc=rsin Tue, 16 Aug 2022 10:30:46 EST Teams at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, University of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science will lead collaborations and provide computing, software and data infrastructure as part of an international network of centers working to create a kind of cell-level Google Maps for the human body. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/psc-and-partners-to-lead-7-5-million-project-to-allocate-access-on-nsf-supercomputers/?sc=rsin /articles/psc-and-partners-to-lead-7-5-million-project-to-allocate-access-on-nsf-supercomputers/?sc=rsin Fri, 22 Apr 2022 10:30:57 EST The NSF has awarded $7.5 million over five years to the RAMPS project, a next-generation system for awarding computing time in the NSF's network of supercomputers. RAMPS is led by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and involves partner institutions in Colorado and Illinois. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/psc-s-neocortex-computer-upgrades-to-cerebras-cs-2-ai-systems/?sc=rsin /articles/psc-s-neocortex-computer-upgrades-to-cerebras-cs-2-ai-systems/?sc=rsin Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:05:54 EST The Neocortex high-performance AI computer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has been upgraded with two new Cerebras CS-2 systems. The WSE-2 technology doubles the system's cores and on-chip memory and enables faster training, larger models and larger input data. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /articles/electrical-charge-of-vaccine-particles-may-lead-to-blood-clot-side-effect/?sc=rsin /articles/electrical-charge-of-vaccine-particles-may-lead-to-blood-clot-side-effect/?sc=rsin Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:45:04 EST Despite the lifesaving success of the COVID-19 vaccines, very rare side effects have emerged. Vaccines engineered from the otherwise-mild adenovirus, for example, have been linked to blood clots. Scientists from Arizona State University, the Mayo Clinic, AstraZeneca and elsewhere have performed simulations on PSC's Bridges-2 system that suggest simple electrical charge may make a protein involved in blood clot formation stick to particles of the AstraZeneca vaccine. The discovery will be the foundation of an effort to explain how the side effect happens and how the vaccine can be re-engineered to prevent it. 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