Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is a high performance computing and networking center. PSC is a joint effort of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh together with Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1986 by its two Scientific Directors, Dr. Ralph Roskies of the University of Pittsburgh and Dr. Michael Levine of Carnegie Mellon University.
PSC is a leading partner in the TeraGrid, the National Science Foundation’s cyberinfrastructure program.
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Mission
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center provides university, government, and industrial researchers with access to several of the most powerful systems for high-performance computing, communications and data-handling available nationwide for unclassified research. As a resource provider in the TeraGrid, PSC works with its TeraGrid partners to harness the full range of information technologies to enable discovery in U.S. science and engineering.
Partnerships
PSC is a Resource Provider in the TeraGrid and contributes to the work of the TeraGrid's coordinating Grid Infrastructure Group (GIG) with leadership roles in user support, security, accounting, education, outreach, and training. This NSF OCI funded program provides U.S. academic researchers with support for and access to leadership-class computing infrastructure and research.
The National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (NRBSC) pursues leading edge research in high performance computing and the life sciences, and fosters exchange between PSC expertise in computational science and biomedical researchers nationwide. NRBSC is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and grew out of the Biomedical Initiative established at PSC in 1987.
The Productivity from Open INtegrated Tools (POINT) project involves PSC, the University of Oregon, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Funded as part of the NSF's Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) program, the goal of the POINT project is to integrate, harden, and deploy an open, portable, robust performance tools environment for NSF-funded high-performance computing centers.
PSC also partners with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to offer free grants of supercomputing time to researchers in Pennsylvania.
PSC is a partner with HPTi on the Department of Defense's (DoD) User Productivity Enhancement, Technology Transfer and Training (PETTT) contract for the DoD's High Performance Computing Modernization Office. The PETTT Program funnels computational science and related technology to the DoD high performance computing user community.
Sponsors
Current supercomputing capabilities
- Anton: A massively-parallel computer made by D.E. Shaw Research. It has 512-processors and is specialized for molecular dynamics.
- Blacklight: A SGI Altix UV1000 coherent shared memory machine with 512 eight-core Intel Xeon 7500 processors (4,096 cores) with 32 terabytes of memory. It is partitioned into two connected 16-terabyte coherent shared-memory systems — creating the two largest coherent shared-memory systems in the world.
- Pople: A SGI Altix 4700 distributed shared memory machine with a total of 768 processing cores (192 blades, each with two Intel Itanium dual core processors) and 2 GB RAM per core. Its is part of the NSF's Teragrid.
- Salk: A smaller version of Pople with a total of 144 processing cores. It is an NIH sponsored computing resource.
- Warhol: An HP c3000 cluster machine with 64 cores and 128 GB of memory. Warhol is available to academic researchers in Pennsylvania and also to government and private sector researchers anywhere in the U.S.
See also
External links
- Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- TeraGrid
- National Science Foundation
- National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing at PSC
- University of Pittsburgh
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Westinghouse Electric Corporation
- NCSA
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