About PSC

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
300 South Craig St., Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-268-4960
FAX: 412-268-5832

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is a joint effort of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh together with Westinghouse Electric Company. Established in 1986, PSC is supported by several federal agencies, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and private industry, and is a resource provider in the National Science Foundation TeraGrid program.

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 to scientists and engineers nationwide for unclassified research. PSC advances the state-of-the-art in high-performance computing, communications and informatics and offers a flexible environment for solving the largest and most challenging problems in computational science. As a resource provider in the TeraGrid, a National Science Foundation program of coordinated cyberinfrastructure for education and research, 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, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, develops new algorithms, performs original research, and conducts training workshops, in addition to fostering collaborative projects and providing access to supercomputing resources to the national biomedical research community.

In partnership with the DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, West Virginia University, the West Virginia Governor's Office of Technology, the Institute for Scientific Research, Duquesne University, The Pennsylvania State University, and Waynesburg College, PSC provides resources to the SuperComputing Science Consortium, a regional partnership to advance energy and environment technologies through the application of high performance computing and communications.

PSC also partners with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to offer free grants of supercomputing time to researchers in Pennsylvania.

Corporate Affiliates

The PSC Corporate Affiliates Program has been providing world-class computing power and balanced infrastructure for industry for over a decade. The center provides an integrated array of services necessary for a company to approach problems previously viewed as beyond reach.