Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Records

Collection

Identifier: 2022-0035

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The materials in this collection primarily consist of slides, photographs, and copies of science books, newsletters, and booklets. The science books, newsletters, and booklets include informational articles documenting research and highlighting events at the PSC. The science books are similar to annual reports that document the various work that was completed at the PSC in a given year. The slides relate to images from these research publications, which include images of 3D models and various other diagrams. Photographs and negatives include images of various PSC machines, events, researchers, PSC staff, and the founding members, Ralph Roskies and Michael Levine.

Dates

1986 - 2022

Biographical / Historical

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) was founded in 1986 by physicists Ralph Roskies from the University of Pittsburgh, and Michael Levine from Carnegie Mellon University, with the help of James Kasdorf, the director of supercomputing at Westinghouse Electric Corp., as a joint effort to provide university, government, and industrial researchers access to high-performance computing systems. The PSC is supported by several federal agencies and is a leading partner for the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), where it works to provide the full range of information technologies to promote advancements in U.S. science and engineering.

In 1987, their NIH-funded biomedical supercomputing program was the first in the country to run outside of the NIH.

In July 2011, the NSF launched their cyberinfrastructure program alongside PSC partner XSEDE, extending the center’s active role in the development of national computing infrastructure.

Extent

3 Linear feet (3 boxes)

Language

English

Additional Description

Overview

This collection includes newsletters, magazines, booklets, slides, photographs, and other documents relating to events, outreach, and research conducted at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). Founded in 1986, the PSC is a nationally leading center that provides researchers access to state-of-the-art computing to solve significant problems in various science, engineering, and humanities disciplines to support research, scholarship and teaching.