Roughly three months into early operations, the Bridges computing resources being deployed at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is bearing fruit. Designed to accommodate traditional HPC and big data analytics, Bridges had supported 245 projects as of May 26. This ramping up of the NSF-funded ($9.6 M) Bridges project is an important step in delivering practical convergence. Bridges is being launched in two phases through 2016 with the first phase – comprised of the computational, web server, database and data transfer nodes (details below) – accomplished this spring. When complete, Bridges will provide “1.3 PLOPS, 274 TB RAM, not including database, web server, or other utility nodes, 10PB of shared storage in the Pylon file system and more than 6PB of node-local storage.” Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, and NVidia are the primary hardware vendors with software developed by PSCC. XSEDE researchers should take note that “Bridges Regular” allocations are on RSM nodes, while “Bridges Large” allocations are on LSM and ESM nodes. Guidelines for assessing your project’s suitability for being run on Bridges are available online. Read more at http://www.hpcwire.com/2016/06/01/hpc-big-data-convergence-takes-life-pscs-bridges/