Announcements
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New specialization will focus on supercomputing
Purdue University is developing courses that will focus on high performance computing, making it one of a few universities nationwide to offer such curriculum. The specialization will be offered in the Department of Computer and Information Technolog...
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Purdue to install Big Ten's biggest campus computer in just a day
The largest supercomputer on a Big Ten campus will be installed at Purdue in a single-day, electronic "barn-raising." More than 200 employees will gather May 5 to help build the massive machine, which will be about the size of a semitrailer...
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Purdue supercomputer unboxed and built by lunchtime
Staff members at Purdue University had hoped to build the Big Ten’s largest campus supercomputer in just a day on Monday, May 5. But it didn’t take that long — they were done by lunch. Read more at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2008a/080505McCartneyBu...
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Summer research interns get early look at graduate student life
When Purdue Terrestrial Observatory Director Gilbert Rochon gave a presentation recently about high tech mapping of Indiana’s flooding this summer, employing satellite imagery from the observatory, Jean Pierre Antelo and Kaiem Frink were there with h...
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Students take top honors at TeraGrid conference
Sanjiv Kumar is something of a fortune teller, but he and his colleagues don’t use a crystal ball to peer into the future of water systems like the St. Joseph River Watershed in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. Instead, they use supercomputers...
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Rendering environment accesses huge pool of resources
Rendering the frames in a complex animation can tie up a work station, or a whole lab of them in a computer graphics class setting, for literally days or weeks, says Purdue Professor Gary Bertoline. But if the load could be shared among hundreds, eve...
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Class papers become prize winners for supercomputer-building Purdue students
For two students in Jeffrey Evans’ high-performance computing class at Purdue, homework turned out to have an unintentional, and lucrative, benefit. Andy Howard and Alex Younts, both of West Lafayette, Ind., walked away with the top student prize for...
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"Green" scales well, according to Purdue's early users
Early “tire kicking” by Purdue researchers is winning the University’s new “green” supercomputer some fans, although the results have been mixed for others and they all caution that more refining and testing need to be done. “It allows us to efficien...
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Purdue Bandwidth Challenge team: Go ahead, try this at home
Purdue’s Bandwidth Challenge entry at the SuperComputing ’08 conference is more like a NASCAR stock car than an Indy 500 racer. Instead of a specialized design you would never see on the street, nor in your average data center, which Bandwidth Challe...
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From an easy way to do cutting-edge science in a Web-based environment today to getting ready to take advantage of tomorrow’s next-generation high performance computers, presentations planned by Purdue researchers at the SuperComputing ’08 conference...
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Purdue Cluster Challenge team all set for Texas
Face it, even Peyton Manning would have trouble hitting his receiver were the Colts quarterback standing in Indianapolis while his target ran in Massachusetts. But long distance connection hasn’t been a problem for the Purdue SuperComputing ’08 Confe...
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Game lets geeks compete to build virtual supercomputer
For those ready to get their geek on, Purdue University has created the computer game for you. Rack-A-Node is an online video game that lets those geeks who love both science and technology try their hand at designing and operating a simulated resear...
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Purdue Cluster Challenge team aiming to take technology to limits
Two groups of Purdue University students and staff will compete in events aimed at pushing the limits of technology to meet the needs of the scientific community. A team of five students enrolled in a high performance computing class at Purdue is gea...
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Pilot program lets users try Sun systems before making purchases
ITaP and Purchasing announce a pilot program designed to give researchers at Purdue rapid access to new computational hardware. The program also allows faculty and staff to test a variety of systems before making purchases. Since the equipment prices...
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Visitors at supercomputing conference impressed with Purdue-developed technology
A Purdue-developed technology called HUBzero sounds chilly, but it looks to Chris McPhee like a hot way to allow researchers to do science on line easily in a graphical Web-based fashion, rather than typing in cryptic commands DOS style. “We’re tired...
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Purdue and IU become computing teammates
Purdue University is adding to what is already the world's largest science-focused distributed computing system with the addition of computers from athletics rival, but longtime computing and research collaborator, Indiana University. IU is linking n...
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Purdue Cluster challenge team starts fast
Purdue’s Cluster Challenge team started off fast at the SuperComputing ’08 Conference in Austin, Texas, Monday evening (Nov. 17). As in 694 gigaflops fast. That’s the score the Purdue team posted with the unusual SiCortex supercomputer it is using in...
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Purdue cluster challenge team creates a stir at supercomputing conference
Purdue’s team may not have won the Cluster Challenge at the SuperComputing ’08 Conference in Austin, Texas. Then again, no other team got to run code on a supercomputer powered by bicycling colleagues of seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armst...
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Purdue team learns from Bandwidth challenge at supercomputing conference
A team of staff members from Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing learned some things likely to come in handy from competing in the Bandwidth Challenge at SuperComputing ’08, the world’s premier high performance computing conference. Purdue w...
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Steele supercomputer at Purdue makes list of world's most powerful systems
Purdue’s Steele supercomputing cluster—made possible by the collaborative efforts of faculty, staff and volunteers—is among the most powerful high performance computing systems in the world, according to rankings released at the SuperComputing ’08 co...