Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

21st Century Data Highway

PSC Advanced Networking Group Expands Networking Capabilities for Region, World

In the era of “Big Data,” the challenge of moving the vastly expanded data volumes created and needed by today’s researchers has become central.

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Thinking BIG DATA

$7.6-Million NSF Grant to fund the Data Exacell, PSC's Next-Generation System for Storing, Analyzing Big Data

The term “Big Data” has become a buzzword.

Like any buzzword, its definition is fairly malleable, carrying different meanings in research, technology, medicine, business and government.

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Cosmic Tug-of-War

Large Dark Matter Halos Favor Growth of Larger Early Galaxies

WHY IT'S IMPORTANT

Few scientific questions are as fundamental, or fascinating, as the origin of the Universe. And we can see the early Universe. The farthest galaxies from us are so far away that it takes light rays about 13 billion years to reach us.

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Digital Graveyard

Blacklight Used to Extract Meaning from Cursive Script, Allowing Scanned Documents to be Searched

In 1973, a fire broke out at the St. Louis National Personnel Records Center, destroying 16 to 18 million military service records from 1912 to 1964. If these records had been digitized they’d have been safe, but not necessarily any more accessible.

Read more: Breaking Out of the Digital Document Graveyard