About the NRBSC

Joel R. Stiles, Director

The National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (NRBSC) pursues leading edge research in high performance computing and the life sciences, and fosters exchange between PSC expertise in computational science and biomedical researchers nationwide.

Our focus is two-fold: computational biomedical research and outreach to the national biomedical research community through education and publications.

Research at NRBSC is centered in three areas: microphysiology; volumetric visualization and analysis; and computational structural biology.

NRBSC's education arm includes not only user training, but also software distribution, publications, and other outreach activities such as online courses and workshop webcasts.

The National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing, formerly the Biomedical Initiative, was established at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center in 1987 as the first extramural biomedical supercomputing program in the country funded by the National Institutes of Health.

News & Events

April 29, 2009
NEWS: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Debuts Dynamic Science Teaching Tool [more...]
April 28-29, 2009
Bioinformatics Roadshow at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico, Ponce, Puerto Rico [more...]
April 30-May 1, 2009
Bioinformatics Roadshow at Universidad Metropolitana-San Juan, Puerto Rico [more...]
June 15-19, 2009
Computational Methods for Spatially Realistic Microphysiological Simulations Workshop [more...]
July 6-August 7, 2009
Bioinformatics Internship Program [more...]
July 13-24, 2009
MARC: Summer Institute in Bioinformatics [more...]
August 11-14, 2009
Methods and Applications of Hybrid QC/MM Simulations to Biomolecular Systems [More...]

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NRBSC Gateways

Microphysiology Gateway.

Volumetric Data and Viz Analysis Gateway.

Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Simulation Gateway.

NRBSC projects are made possible by these sponsors:

NIH logo. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center logo. NCRR logo.