Announcements
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Completed MATH upgrades will allow research computing expansion
Major ITaP research computing systems, including the Rossmann, Coates, Moffett and Radon clusters, are back on line following a project to upgrade the power and cooling systems for the data center in the Mathematical Sciences Building. The upgrade pr...
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ITaP still taking faculty orders for new research supercomputing cluster
Faculty orders for the new Hansen Community Cluster research supercomputer are still being taken by ITaP, which plans to have the new system operating in September. The Hansen cluster features Dell compute nodes with four 12-core AMD Opteron 6176 pro...
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New website gives community cluster users a window to their work
A few clicks on a graph, a table and a couple pull-down menus in a Web form and Kevin Colby knows this particular piece of computational research used 800 processors on 100 different machines, how long it took — and a lot more. A new website created...
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Hansen Cluster is in Production
As of 10:00 AM, September 15, 2011, the Hansen Community cluster has gone into production. Hansen is comprised of 200 Dell computer nodes, with four 12-core AMD Opteron 6176 processors (48 cores per node), and is interconnected with RDMA-enabled 10Gb...
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New Hansen research supercomputer activated, capacity still available to faculty
“Contagion” is just a hit movie but its premise – a deadly disease spread around the world by airline passengers – is no fiction, as recent experience with SARS and the H1N1 flu virus illustrate. That’s one reason mechanical engineering Professor Qin...
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Storage upgrade will mean faster, more reliable data access for Purdue researchers
An upgrade of the software underlying the data storage system used by many Purdue researchers will provide faculty and their students quicker, more robust and more secure access to their data. ITaP and its Rosen Center for Advanced Computing will be...
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New Web application lets faculty control cluster use by students, collaborators
A new Web-based application allows faculty partners in Purdue’s community cluster supercomputers to give students and research collaborators permission to run jobs on a faculty member’s portion of a cluster with just a few keystrokes. The online self...
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International conference a showcase for Purdue technologies that help build research communities
The high cost of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 in loss of life — nearly 25,000 deaths — and billions of dollars in damage, this in a country that invests the largest amount of resources in the world to prepare for such disasters, was a loud...
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Optimizing MPI performance on Hansen
To provide an optimal computing experience on the new Hansen cluster, ITaP would like to offer some tips on utilizing Hansen most effectively. Hansen utilizes Mellanox 10 Gbps Ethernet adapters for its network interconnect. In addition to handling H...
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Purdue Cluster Challenge student supercomputing team ready to compute
For Tyler Reid, a junior in computer science from Zionsville, being a member of Purdue’s student supercomputing team means a chance to get his hands on some of the latest hardware, an opportunity too good to pass up. The six-member team, which built...
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Cluster Challenge: Purdue, ITaP student supercomputing team in data crunching mode
Purdue’s student supercomputing team has entered the “sleepless in Seattle” phase of the 2011 Cluster Challenge at SC11, the world’s largest supercomputing conference. The team of six undergraduates completed the benchmarking phase of the competition...
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Cluster Challenge: Purdue, ITaP student supercomputing team awaits results
Purdue’s student supercomputing team has completed the data-crunching phase of the 2011 Cluster Challenge at SC11, the world’s largest supercomputing conference, and is waiting to see where it will land in the final standings for the international co...
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Cluster Challenge: Purdue, ITaP student supercomputing team does well
John Blaas and Andrew Huff, designated system administrators for Purdue’s student supercomputing team, didn’t see much of Seattle this week but it wasn’t like they slept through their trip to the Cluster Challenge, the student competition at SC11, th...
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Hansen MPI Software Changes - December 16, 2011
As a follow up to our earlier tip describing the optimal MPI for computations on Hansen, we are undertaking an effort to reduce the number of maintained MPI implementations. This will make it easier for you, the user, to identify and use the best MPI...
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New Carter community cluster will be available to faculty in the spring
A new cutting-edge research supercomputing cluster will be available for use by Purdue faculty and their students in the spring of 2012 and should allow campus researchers to tackle larger problems and get more detailed results faster than ever befor...
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Free, fast BLAST processing now available on Purdue’s DiaGrid system
BLAST, the popular bioinformatics software, is now available to Purdue faculty and their students on Purdue’s DiaGrid distributed computing system, which can make thousands of processors available at once for BLAST jobs — at no cost to users. ITaP al...
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New Carter cluster is one of the greenest, as well as fastest, in the world
Purdue’s new Carter supercomputer ranks 38th on the latest Green500 list of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world, making it one of the greenest systems as well as one of the world’s most powerful. Carter placed 54th on the latest TOP...
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Moving research to energy efficient community cluster saves time and money
Electrical engineering Professor Scott Sudhoff’s research looks, in part, for ways to optimize electric motors and generators. It is fitting then that Purdue’s community cluster supercomputers provided an opportunity to improve the energy efficiency...
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Regular account expiration starting on ITaP research clusters
In February, 2012, many accounts belonging to former Purdue students and staff will be retired. For most computing services at Purdue, your Purdue Career Account and @purdue.edu email will remain active as long as you remain affiliated with Purdue Un...
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New Windows HPC cluster now available to Purdue researchers
Forestry and natural resources Professor Bryan Pijanowski’s research looks at how people and land use play into the state of ecosystems, including issues like projecting loss of prime farmland to urbanization over the next 50 years and the potential...