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- PSC - The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- Mellon Institute Building
- 4400 Fifth Avenue
- Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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- _E_m_a_i_l: consult@a.psc.edu.sp
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- _P_h_o_n_e: (412) 268-4960
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- 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.
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- The Center currently offers:
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- o+ a Cray Y-MP/832 supercomputer which features eight
- processing units sharing common memory of 32 million
- 64-bit words
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- 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
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- o+ an IBM 4381-P21 with 30GB of disk storage for CFS, an
- archiving system
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- o+ a Connection Machine CM-2, with 32,768 processors and
- one gigabyte of memory
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
- of this guide.
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- February 14, 1992 NNSC Section 1.9, Page 1
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- o+ a DataVault with 10 gigabytes of high speed storage
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- 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
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- o+ two Digital Equipment Corporation VAXes running VMS as
- front ends to the Y-MP, CMVAX and SUNs
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- o+ two Digital Equipment Corporation VAXes running Ultrix
- as front ends to the Y-MP, CMVAX, and SUNs
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- o+ the Andrew File System, a distributed network file
- system, serving the Ultrix front ends and the CM front
- ends
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s
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- The center is on the Internet.
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- _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _T_h_e _C_e_n_t_e_r
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- Requests for supercomputing services may be made directly to
- the PSC.
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