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

            _P_h_o_n_e: (412) 268-6350


            _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 1500 researchers at  170  institutions  in  43  states,
            representing   virtually   all   fields  of  scientific  and
            engineering endeavor.

            The Center currently offers:

            o+    a Cray Y-MP/832 supercomputer which features eight pro-
                 cessing  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+    three Digital Equipment Corporation VAX  8810  machines
                 (front ends to the Y-MP)

            o+    an IBM 4381-P21 with 30GB of disk storage for  CFS,  an
                 archiving system, and

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            o+    high-function engineering workstations,  personal  com-
                 puters,  and  special-purpose graphics devices, such as
                 an Ardent Titan, a  Pixar  image  computer,  a  Silicon
                 Graphics  IRIS  workstation,  TekTronix  terminals, and
                 Postscript laser printers.

            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.


























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