November 21, 2024

Pfenning, Yartsev Labs and PSC win annual reader's choice award from HPCwire

The Pfenning laboratory at Carnegie Mellon, the Yartsev laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center recently won the annual reader's choice award for "Best Use of AI Methods for Augmenting HPC Applications". The award comes from HPCwire (https://www.hpcwire.com/), a leading news and information resource for high-performance computing.

In the joint research, which is described in more depth here (https://cbd.cmu.edu/news/2024/similar-genetic-elements-underlie-vocal-learning-in-mammals.html), the investigators are able to identify parts of the genome associated with the evolution of speech production using the resources of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. "This is only the beginning", says Dr. Pfenning, who is a lead author on the study and the chair of the comparative genomics working group of the Vertebrate Genome Project (https://vertebrategenomesproject.org/). "Thousands of vertebrate genomes are being sequenced, but making sense of that new information will require new methods and advances in computing."

More information on the awards can be found here: https://www.psc.edu/psc-four-hpcwire-awards/