Announcements
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Divide and conquer: distributed graphics rendering
Rendering frames in a complex animation can tie up workstations for days or weeks. A two-minute animation at 30 frames per second will typically take over 100 hours to render on a single computer. Sharing the load among hundreds or even thousands of...
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Purdue, IU consortium aims to drive new era for research, education online
A powerful Web platform that allows scientists to share research modeling tools, presentations and experimental findings is the focus of a new partnership between Purdue and Indiana universities. Purdue is launching a consortium for joint development...
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Survey asks Purdue researchers what they want in new computer system
Purdue researchers are being asked for feedback on the features they need in a new supercomputing cluster planned by Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) and the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing. The Rosen Center plans to build the new communit...
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ITaP offers Purdue researchers fast, reliable, secure data storage
Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) is now offering no-hassle data storage in the same way its community cluster program helps faculty members do research using high-performance computing — that is, without having to worry about running a compute...
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New TeraGrid Campus Champion making Purdue researchers an
A “people person” with a background in helping users take advantage of high-performance computing resources whose job already focuses on assisting researchers in using the TeraGrid—you couldn’t ask for a better description of a good TeraGrid Campus C...
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Purdue TeraGrid staff and students present at CondorWeek 2009
Condor Week is a four-day annual gathering of Condor developers, collaborators and users at the home of the Condor development team: University of Wisconsin, Madison. This is a well-attended forum where researchers and practitioners exchange ideas an...
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ITaP taking orders for new research supercomputing cluster and individual systems
Orders for nodes in the new Coates community cluster are now being taken by Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP). This also is an opportunity for departments or individuals purchasing computing equipment for use outside the cluster to take advanta...
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Encore to ITaP's first supercomputer barn-raising is even better than the original
Last year ITaP staff and a small army of volunteers had the Steele supercomputer built by noon. The anticipation was that the new Coates cluster would take longer. Coates is a larger project and it required installing special network cards. Then, the...
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ITaP interns get real experience with research and technology, graduate student life
ITaP summer research intern Lutalo Webb already knew he would be back when he arrived at Purdue. The May engineering graduate from Vanderbilt University had applied and been accepted for graduate school in West Lafayette. But the time he's spent an...
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Purdue partnership for putting idle computers to work on research wins international award
Purdue is being recognized as a worldwide campus technology innovator for its DiaGrid system harnessing what would be otherwise wasted computing power for major research projects. Campus Technology Magazine has selected DiaGrid for one of its 2009 Ca...
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New Purdue cluster was working on the TeraGrid before it was even finished
Purdue University’s new high-performance computing cluster, named Coates, was available on the TeraGrid even before staff and volunteers finished building it July 21. The nodes in the new cluster, made up of more than 700 HP dual quad-core computers...
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ITaP units' virtualization partnership avoids duplication, better serves researchers
Recent growth in demand for computational resources from Purdue researchers prompted ITaP to expand its high-performance computing hardware drastically, including the Steele community cluster built in 2008, one of the world’s Top 500 supercomputers,...
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Purdue Google Gadgets offer satellite data visualization for everybody
Purdue collects masses of satellite data for use by scientists and state and local officials, but anybody who uses Google now can share in some of this data cornucopia. Two Google Gadgets -- a type of small Web application -- created by Purdue staff...
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Purdue partnership for putting idle computers to work on research wins international award
Purdue is being recognized as a worldwide campus technology innovator for its DiaGrid system, harnessing what would be otherwise wasted computing power for major research projects. Campus Technology Magazine has selected DiaGrid for one of its 2009 C...
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Cluster Challenge: Purdue, ITaP student supercomputing team ready for SC09
Purdue students Alex Younts and David King helped build Purdue’s latest supercomputer in July. Call it a summer workout. Younts and King are now part of a Purdue student team running its own supercomputer in a competition at the SC09 Conference in Po...
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Purdue highlights cloud computing tools at SC09 supercomputing conference
Facebook for scientists—but built to facilitate serious research rather than socializing—and an award-winning method for putting idle computers to work on scientific breakthroughs are Purdue-developed technologies in the spotlight at the SC09, the wo...
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Purdue research computing grid is no Toy Story, but a new animated video about it is close
If Purdue University computer graphics technology student Micah Bojrab gets his dream job with a Hollywood animation studio, a system for harnessing unused computers to do cutting-edge research will have played a part. The DiaGrid system developed by...
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DiaGrid: Purdue puts SC09 supercomputing conference computers to work on science
Ken Newton uses computer simulations of ions (charged atoms) to optimize techniques used in studying their structure. Ions are essential to life and important in everything from plant growth to water movement in the human body. Newton models millions...
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SC09 Cluster Challenge: Purdue, ITaP student supercomputing team wins 'green' computing award
Purdue’s student Cluster Challenge team at the SC09 supercomputing conference in Portland, Ore., was fast and green. The Purdue team in the competition, where teams of undergraduates from around the country pushed their student-run supercomputers to...
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ITaP sets Jan. 4 deadline for buying into the new Coates cluster
ITaP is issuing a “last call” to Purdue researchers who may want to buy nodes in the new Coates community cluster supercomputer. Those wishing to buy into Coates should place an order at: www.rcac.purdue.edu/order. The deadline for submitting orders...