Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center | News, events & more!
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Tweets 2,006
- Following 316
- Followers 1,510
- Likes 805
In 2009, using PSC’s Pople, a CMU team showed that you could guess at five or more digits in a person’s social security number up to 44 percent of the time. Their widely reported discovery showed that we are way too vulnerable to identity theft.
psc.edu/identity-hacking/
41
There's one month left to apply to the 2026 Anton RFP!
Learn more and watch our webinars at psc.edu/resources/anton/
Mark your calendars for our August 24th webinars to help you prepare a strong 2026 Anton Proposal. The RFP will be open until October 23.
Learn more at psc.edu/resources/anton/
41
Happy Friday! For #PSC40, Chris Csonka sat down with long-time PSCer Rob Light, and talked about his journey from student to Principal Systems Software Engineer Manager.
⚾ psc.edu/rob-light-heavy-hitt…
#PoweringDiscovery
ALT Graphic with a man standing in front of the PSC logo and the Pittsburgh city skyline.
41
Fibrils, protein chains that gum up a cell’s works, underlie many degenerative diseases. A team led from @UTAustin used Bridges-2 to uncover clues as to how fibril formation happens, and possibly how it could be better prevented.
psc.edu/protein-folding-brea…
53
Tomorrow, join PSC and the Precision Convergence Webinar Series for "Social Tinkering: The Social Foundations of Cultural Complexity," at 11:00 EDT.
psc.edu/events/mcgill-social…
49
In 2008, automatically darkening eyeglasses faced a kind of “glass ceiling.” A team from @Transitions used PSC’s corporate affiliates program, resulting in the first photochromic lenses made of high-impact plastic.
😎 psc.edu/transitions-lenses/
#PSC40 #PoweringDiscovery
ALT Transition lens darkens as it is held up to sunlight
59
"[We] have a server in the lab, but [it] can only run very small setup experiments. Because of this parallelization requirement . . . it would be super challenging if we didn’t have a large computing center server [like Bridges-2 available].”
Read more: psc.edu/robo-ready-warehouse…
1
51
Mark your calendars for our August 24th webinars to help you prepare a strong 2026 Anton Proposal. The RFP will be open until October 23.
Learn more at psc.edu/resources/anton/
112
Black holes are often depicted as destructive sci-fi hazards, but they are integral to the formation of galaxies like our own. In 2005, scientists at @CarnegieMellon used the Cray XT3 to reenvision the role of black holes in the evolution of the universe.
psc.edu/black-holes-universe…
ALT Illustration of a black hole, a black sphere surrounded by bending beams of light and flashes of energy.
57
We are proud to announce that a $5 million NSF grant will enable PSC, with partners @HPE, @rigetti, and @PittTweet, to construct TangleLab: a hybrid quantum-classical computer.
Read more: psc.edu/psc-will-build-new-h…
ALT Image of a quantum computer
78
PSC’s Paola Buitrago bas been named Co-PI on GEM-AI, a project to use AI to identify geologic and biological clues that could indicate the presence of minerals essential for advanced manufacturing in technology, aerospace, energy and defense.
Read more: psc.edu/genesis-mission-rese…
ALT Stock photo showing nuggets of metal on top of computer on top of motherboard pieces.
59
Hello from Minneapolis!
PSC is at @PEARC_Conf #PEARC26, and our lineup of events is underway. Say hello at Booth 204, or find a PSC-led presentation here: psc.edu/events/pearc-26/
ALT Postcard-like graphic with landmarks hat reads "See you in Minneapolis, Minnesota"
50
For #PSC40, Chris Csonka sat down with Jim Kasdorf, PSC's first supercomputing expert. Joined by his wife Kate, they talk about computing, people, and music.
🎵 psc.edu/hardware-and-harmony…
#PoweringDiscovery
ALT Three men in suits smile at the camera
40
The 2026 RFP for Anton 3 opens today!
The third-generation Anton is the first and only resource available to the research community capable of simulating multiple millions of atoms at speeds of microseconds per day.
🧬Learn more at psc.edu/resources/anton/
68
Smaller, faster devices have trouble dumping the heat they generate. A team led from @UCLA used PSC’s flagship Bridges-2 to simulate a new metallic material that with nearly three times as much thermal conductivity as copper.
psc.edu/new-metallic-materia…
ALT A hand holds a microchip with a pair of tweezers
34
📣 We are pleased to announce a $10-million grant from the National Science Foundation to build Bridges-3, PSC's next flagship supercomputer! 📣
Read the press release: psc.edu/10-million-to-fund-n…
ALT A timelapse photo of a bridge in Pittsburgh with the lights of traffic speeding through it
1
1
253
Our bodies are, famously, 60 percent water — and having the right proportions of water and other molecules in our cells is key. In 2002, scientists from @UofIllinois used PSC's Lemieux to understand this balancing act.
💧psc.edu/revolutionary-how-pr…
#PSC40 #PoweringDiscovery
ALT Person in exercise clothes drinking water
29
To celebrate #PSC40, we're talking to the people who make up PSC—such as Ben Nalevanko, who interned with PSC in the summer of 2024. That feels like it was just yesterday, but somehow it's been 2 years, so we sat down to catch up.
➡️ psc.edu/psc-interns-where-ar…
#PoweringDiscovery
ALT A group photo outside of PSC.
43
Another Precision Convergence Webinar is coming up this week, 6/18, featuring Andrew Maynard and Jeffrey Abbott.
Learn more and register for free: psc.edu/events/mcgill-what-d…
75