Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center joins forces with Darkstrand

By DE Editors

Darkstrand has announced a collaborative agreement with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) that will allow corporations connected anywhere on the Darkstrand Network to collaborate in real time with PSC on high-performance computing projects leading to product development. Network connectivity also provides companies with a direct line to PSC’s technical consultants, application experts, supercomputing systems and mass-storage capabilities.

A joint effort of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, and a partner in TeraGrid, the National Science Foundation’s cyberinfrastructure program, PSC provides university, government, and industrial researchers with access to high-performance computing and data handling.

“This collaboration will expand the reach of high-performance computing into the corporate environment,” said PSC Executive Director David Moses. “Through Darkstrand’s connectivity, American business will have ready access not only to the amazing hardware and software tools that have transformed scientific research over the last 20 years but also, and just as importantly, they will be able to interact with a consulting staff second-to-none in knowing how to use these tools to get results. This is an important win for U.S. economic competitiveness.”

“Darkstrand is launching a new R&D collaboration model for corporate America, in which bandwidth is no longer a constraint on innovation. PSC provides the integrated HPC environment, deep technical support and Ph.D.-level consultants needed to fast forward discovery in science, engineering and advanced computing,” said Michael Stein, CEO, Darkstrand. “From simulation to prototype, insight to market, our work together serves as a turnkey solution tailored to improve our country’s competitive advantage.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.