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PSC - The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
_A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Mellon Institute Building
4400 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
_E_m_a_i_l: consult@a.psc.edu.sp
_P_h_o_n_e: (412) 268-4960
_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), one of the
national centers established by the National Science Founda-
tion, provides advanced supercomputer resources to the
scientific and engineering research communities. PSC pro-
vides computing resources and support facilities for work in
many branches of science. To date, it has supported work by
over 1900 researchers at 375 institutions in 49 states, and
the District of Columbia, representing virtually all fields
of scientific and engineering endeavor.
The Center currently offers:
o+ a Cray Y-MP/832 supercomputer which features eight
processing units sharing common memory of 32 million
64-bit words
o+ a Solid-state Storage Device (SSD) which will hold 128
million words and can transfer data at 156 Mwords per
second on each of two parallel channels
o+ an IBM 4381-P21 with 30GB of disk storage for CFS, an
archiving system
o+ a Connection Machine CM-2, with 32,768 processors and
one gigabyte of memory
_________________________
The information in this section is provided in accor-
dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
of this guide.
February 14, 1992 NNSC Section 1.9, Page 1
o+ a DataVault with 10 gigabytes of high speed storage
o+ a Digital Equipment Corporation VAX, CMVAX, and two
SUN 4470s, SUNA and SUNB, running Ultrix and Unix, as
front ends to the CM-2
o+ two Digital Equipment Corporation VAXes running VMS as
front ends to the Y-MP, CMVAX and SUNs
o+ two Digital Equipment Corporation VAXes running Ultrix
as front ends to the Y-MP, CMVAX, and SUNs
o+ the Andrew File System, a distributed network file
system, serving the Ultrix front ends and the CM front
ends
o+ high-function engineering workstations, personal com-
puters, and special-purpose graphics devices, such as
a Silicon Graphics IRIS workstation, SUN Sparcstation,
IBM RS6000, DECStation 5000, Canon CLC500 color
copier/printer, and Postscript laser printers, and
o+ CGM-based animation system producing VHS tape and and
videodisk animations, plus the ability to produce 35mm
color slides using a Matrix Instruments SlideWriter.
The Center provides experienced user services and training
in scientific research. Consultants are available to answer
users' questions Monday through Saturday. The Center offers
classes and workshops on different aspects of supercomput-
ing, provides online and hardcopy documentation, produces a
monthly newsletter and a technical bulletin, and annually
publishes a booklet which highlights some of the scientific
research done at the Center. The systems and software staff
selects and installs new software and spearheads system
development efforts.
_N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s
The center is on the Internet.
_W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _T_h_e _C_e_n_t_e_r
Requests for supercomputing services may be made directly to
the PSC.
February 14, 1992 NNSC Section 1.9, Page 2