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PSC Participates in $10M Gates Foundation Grant to Stop Spread of Infectious Disease
[2008.8.19]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $10 million to the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) for the Vaccine Modeling Initiative (VMI), a research partnership involving the University of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania State University and Imperial College London.
PSC Again Supports NOAA Spring Experiment
[2008.7.2]
Once again this year during spring storm season, NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) mounted a major experiment in storm forecasting. As has been the case many times over the past 15 years, computational support came from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC).
PSC’s “WiiMD” Wins
Best Demonstration at TG ’08
[2008.6.19]
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) won the award for “Best Demonstration at TG08” during the annual conference of the TeraGrid, the National Science Foundation’s program of cyberinfrastructure for U.S. science and education, June 9-13 in Las Vegas.
PSC Mentors Local Students to Win TeraGrid Science Competition
[2008.6.18]
Matthew Stoffregen, a junior at Woodland Hills High School, won first prize in a science competition at the third annual conference of the TeraGrid, the National Science Foundation's program of cyberinfrastructure for U.S. science and education.
Weekly Reader Features PSC Tornado
[2008.5.28]
The online edition of the classic children's publication Weekly Reader recently featured a tornado animation produced at PSC.
PSC and Fibertech Open New PoP
[2008.4.29]
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and Fibertech Networks today celebrated the opening of a PSC Point of Presence (PoP) in Fibertech's new collocation facility in Pittsburgh's Allegheny Center Mall.
New SGI Systems Delivered
[2008.3.25]
On schedule with plans announced in January, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has taken delivery and begun testing two new SGI Altix® 4700 systems.
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Contracts for SGI Shared Memory Systems
[2008.1.16]
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has contracted with SGI to acquire two SGI® Altix® 4700 systems.
Buckyball Bowling with BigBen and Wiimo in Reno
[2007.12.04]
At Supercomputing '07 in Reno, Nevada, Nov. 10-16, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) attracted attention at its booth with an innovative hybrid of game technology and supercomputing.
PSC Wins Two Awards for Innovation
[2007.11.13]
HPCwire, a leading electronic news outlet for high-performance computing and communication, awarded two of its 2007 Reader's Choice Awards for innovation to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
PSC at SC07: Bioscience via TeraGrid, K-12 & ZEST
[2007.11.07]
At Supercomputing '07, Nov. 13-15 in Reno, Nevada, research presentations at the PSC booth (#587) will highlight three TeraGrid-enabled, distributed-computing projects in biomedicine
