Announcements
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Intel Foundation sponsors Purdue Research Opportunities Program (PROP)
Ten Purdue Research Opportunities Program (PROP) Scholars arrived on Sunday, July 13, for a three-week residential intensive Summer Institute, jointly sponsored by the Intel Foundation and ITaP. The undergraduates come from Purdue, Martin University...
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Purdue achieved TeraGrid Status
Thanks to the help of many ITaP staff, Purdue has achieved TeraGrid status. The TeraGrid is the National Science Foundation's largest cyberinfrastructure effort, and it is now in production mode. Purdue TeraGrid completed its construction phase, invo...
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ITaP sponsors Linux Cluster computing conference
Linux cluster computing is now a significant tool in research computing, and an upcoming international conference—of which ITaP is a sponsor—will examine the many ways Linux clusters are being put to use. The Sixth Linux Clusters Institute (LCI) Inte...
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ITaP staff participated in SC2004
ITaP staff and faculty from several areas of the University—about 70 people in all—participated in the Super Computing 2004 (SC2004) conference, which is the largest annual event worldwide focused on high performance computing, networking, data stora...
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Loftis Joins the Rosen Center Staff
Bruce Loftis joined the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing staff on April 18, 2004 as a Senior Research Scientist and Manager of User Services. Bruce came to Purdue via NCSA at the University of Illinois, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and th...
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Rosen Center now has 14 times the computing capacity it had two years ago
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has 14 times the computing capacity now than it did two years ago, thanks to a new supercomputer and the creation of a community cluster model. RCAC's computing resources formerly totaled 1 TFlop, or one...
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Purdue among NSF Sites Providing 34 Million Hours of Supercomputing Time to Scientists
Every three months, a committee of computational scientists from across the country reviews requests for, and awards time at, NSF-supported supercomputing centers. At its recent meeting, 34 million hours of computing time were awarded to 90 projects....
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Purdue Researchers Are Redefining How Information is Shared
Purdue Researchers are redefining how information is shared between scientists, professors, and students. Grid computing is more than a concept.
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RCAC Opens up Opportunistic Access to 11 TFlops for TeraGrid Users
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) at Purdue University has opened up opportunistic access to 11 teraflops of computing power to the TeraGrid community. Based on a new model known as community clusters developed by researchers at RCAC, th...
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SDSC Announcing Data Allocations
SDSC is pleased to announce an expansion in services, resources and capabilities provided to scientific researchers. For nearly 20 years, SDSC has made available a wide range of computational resources. However, in recent years, the rate of data gene...
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Purdue gets 5.3 million for TeraGrid operation, management, and user support
Purdue University's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing will receive $5.3 million as part of a National Science Foundation five-year, $150 million award to operate and enhance the Extensible Terascale Facility — also called TeraGrid. TeraGrid, which...
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$5 million for supercomputer grid in northwest Indiana
The new year will usher in a new era for supercomputing at Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame. The institutions are partnering to create a sophisticated, high-performance computer grid – to be operational in January – that is expected...
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Blue Gene Consortium Day at IBM's Watson Research Center
Blue Gene Watson (BGW) Consortium Day provides an opportunity for members of the Consortium to run applications or computer science projects on IBM's 20 rack, 100 Tflop BG system. The next opportunity is March 29-30, 2006. Information can be found on...
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Envision Center wins honors from Campus Technology magazine
Purdue's Envision Center for Data Perceptualization was chosen by Campus Technology magazine as one of the winners of its Campus Technology Innovators 2006 competition. Purdue won in the category of "Virtual and Immersive Learning". The awa...
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Purdue teams up with California university to raise the bar in grid computing
Purdue University researchers have reached new milestones in grid interoperability through the successful integration of two Open Science Grid (OSG) sites running a scientific application over the National Science Foundation TeraGrid network. Read mo...
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TeraGrid '07 Conference Registration Now Open!!
Conference Registration is Open! Registration is open for the second annual TeraGrid conference -- "TeraGrid '07: Broadening Participation in TeraGrid.” Thank you to everyone who submitted papers for TG07! The paper submission process is now clo...
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Purdue offers Condor resources to TeraGrid community
Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing has become the largest provider of high-throughput computing cycles on the National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid. Carol X. Song, senior research scientist in the Rosen Center and principal inve...
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Atkins to Speak at TeraGrid '07
Speakers, Science Gateways and Tutorials -- Much in store for attendees at TeraGrid ’07! CHICAGO — The second annual TeraGrid conference, being held June 4-8 in Madison, Wisconsin, will provide the scientific community with opportunities for knowledg...
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Purdue makes distributed rendering available at SIGGRAPH 2007 via TeraGrid
Academic animators and researchers doing scientific visualizations have a new resource that will allow them to render their 3-D animations in a fraction of the time it can take on a single computer. Attendees of the 2007 ACM SIGGRAPH conference in Sa...
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Important news for Radon/Recycled cluster users
The Radon/Recycled Linux cluster was upgraded significantly during RCAC's August 15-17 maintenance window. Changes resulting from this upgrade include the following: The operating system on radon.rcac.purdue.edu and the cluster's compute nodes was u...