Announcements
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Purdue's DiaGrid is a top 100 information technology development for 2009
The DiaGrid project operated by ITaP has been selected by IDG’s InfoWorld as one of the top 100 information technology projects of 2009 in its InfoWorld 100 Awards. IDG is a major publisher of computer and information technology magazines and Web sit...
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National Science Foundation prepares for transition to eXtreme Digital generation of cyberinfrastructure Purdue researchers needing assistance in applying for a TeraGrid allocation can contact Kim Dillman, Purdue’s TeraGrid Campus Champion. Dillman’s...
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ITaP surveying faculty and staff about research computing needs and new supercomputer
ITaP is planning a new community cluster to be built this spring and is gathering information about what Purdue faculty and staff may need either as a part of the new cluster or in computers for departmental or individual use. The combined purchase a...
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HUBzero open source release is a hub-in-a-box, without the box
When Purdue Professor Ashlie Martini wants to explain how force variations cause ribbon-like protein molecules to change shape, which governs their myriad of functions in the body, she can bring up the Web site nanoHUB.org and a Web-based application...
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ITaP taking orders for new research supercomputing cluster
Orders for the new Rossmann community cluster are now being taken by ITaP. ITaP’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing plans to build the new cluster in July. The plan calls for the supercomputer to be in production in August. The new cluster will fea...
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Purdue's partnership for building research supercomputers wins international award
Purdue is being recognized as a worldwide campus technology innovator for the ITaP-led Community Cluster Program, a partnership with faculty researchers that provides more computing power at a better price and puts it to work on research projects alm...
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ITaP activates new research supercomputing cluster, space still available
That rocket engines and pipe organs have something in common may not seem intuitive, but both blow acoustic waves through a tube. This can result in beautiful music or, in the case of an engine, operating inefficiencies, even catastrophe. Charles Mer...
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Research and education technologies conference presentations now available online
Video of and PowerPoint slides from presentations at Purdue CI Days 2010—a two-day event focused on technology to enhance research, teaching and program funding—are now available online. The presentations, which covered topics ranging from supercompu...
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ITaP and Purdue Calumet partnership gives Calumet campus first large-scale supercomputer
At Purdue University Calumet, Chenn Qian Zhou's engineering students work on real-world problems from energy companies, the steel industry, refineries and vehicle parts manufacturers, among others, businesses in Indiana, nationally and internationall...
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ITaP surveying faculty and staff about research computing needs and new supercomputer
ITaP is planning a new community cluster supercomputer to be built in 2011 and gathering information about what Purdue faculty and staff may need either as a part of the new system or in computers for departmental or individual use. The combined purc...
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Future athletic rivals, Nebraska and Purdue are teammates in research computing
Nebraska may not feel like an official member of the Big Ten Conference until football season begins this fall, but Purdue and its future conference rival already are models of good sportsmanship in the field of research computing. The University of...
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Coates scratch directory changes on 2/22 and 3/31
The default scratch directory location for the Coates Linux cluster has changed from the BlueArc storage servers to the Lustre storage system installed last summer. Starting March 31st, your BlueArc scratch directory will be read-only from Coates nod...
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Latest release makes HUBzero computing, collaboration software more social
HUBzero’s latest open source release enhances the platform for creating powerful websites supporting computation, research, education and collaboration in science, engineering and almost any other field with a heavy dose of new social networking feat...
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ITaP research computing begins using FootPrints ticketing system
ITaP’s research computing unit the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing is now using Numara FootPrints to manage user requests and problems, as well as for incident reports, changes and service-level management. Research computing users will still con...
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Campus Technology picks HUBzero and Signals as top innovations for 2011
Campus Technology Magazine is recognizing Purdue as a campus technology innovator for HUBzero, a Web-based platform allowing researchers to collaborate using computational models to study complex problems and Signals, an early warning system that hel...
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ITaP still taking orders for new research supercomputing cluster
Orders for the new Hansen Community Cluster are still being taken by ITaP, which plans to build the new supercomputer later this summer and have it operating in September. The Hansen cluster will feature Dell compute nodes with four 12-core AMD Opter...
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Purdue to help bring advanced digital resources, services and expertise to nation’s researchers
Purdue is partnering with 16 institutions to build the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated digital resources and digital services for research in the world. S...
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Purdue research computing resources for faculty among best in the nation
To gauge whether specific genes may play roles in diseases, Purdue statistics Professor Hyonho Chun often repeats her calculations thousands of times for each of thousands of genes. That makes for a lot of heavyweight computation and it helps to have...
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Campus Technology highlights HUBzero and Signals as top innovations for 2011
Campus Technology Magazine’s August edition is highlighting two Purdue-developed technologies as top innovations for 2011. HUBzero is a Web-based platform allowing researchers to collaborate using computational models to study complex problems. Signa...
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Fortress archive system being upgraded to HPSS
Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) is upgrading the research computing archival storage system Fortress. Currently based upon EMC's DiskXtender (DXUL), Fortress is being upgraded to new, more powerful software: the High Performance Storage Syste...