A longtime business executive, Charles David Snyder serves as the vice president of business development and strategy at Realogic Solutions, located near Cleveland. In addition to his professional endeavors, Cleveland-area resident C. David Snyder stays informed about industry trends in areas such as big data computing.
One of the remarkable success stories in the high-performance computing (HPC) sphere has been the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s (PSC) Bridges platform, which received $10 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2014 and was designed as part of the XSEDE cyberinfrastructure.
The research-focused computational platform’s high-profile achievements include AI programs that defeated top-ranked human poker players, as well as those that accelerated warning times for storms through more accurate predictions of severe weather. Other research has focused on creating a unified tool for assembling vast DNA and RNA sequences, and pathways toward understanding species-level genetic resilience in the face of climate change.
As with all PSC systems, the Bridges platform has been made accessible at no cost to educators and open researchers, as well as to private companies on a cost-recovery basis. This has made it a popular go-to resource that was utilized by more than 800 scientific institutions and in 2,100 projects over the years. In 2020, Bridges was enrolled in the global COVID-19 HPC Consortium. An expedited overnight approval process gave those researching coronavirus vaccine, drug, and public health solutions extensive storage and computing capabilities.
Bridges was officially retired in February 2021, three years beyond its original end-date. Plans are underway for an NSF funded Bridges-2 project that will feature the latest generation AI-based HPC system Neocortex.
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