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Discuss “National Institutes of Health awards $8.5 million for biomedical research”

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) an $8.5 million grant for biomedical research. The grant extends support of the National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (NRBSC) for an additional five years.

For the last 20 years, the NRBSC has contributed to the field of biomedical research through simulation work on supercomputing networks. According to the group’s website, the NRBSC “pursues leading-edge research in high-performance computing and the life sciences.”

PSC scientific co-director Ralph Roskies stated in a press release that “for 20 years, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has provided national leadership in applying advanced computational resources to biomedical...

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