Announcements
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Orders open for Carter, Purdue’s new top-ranked research supercomputing cluster
Orders for the new Carter Community Cluster are now being taken by ITaP and its Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, which plans to have Purdue’s new research supercomputer running in full production by April. Carter features HP compute nodes with tw...
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New Carter community cluster is fully operational, capacity available
Alina Alexeenko thinks Purdue’s new Carter community cluster should give her lab a lot more computing power to study rarified gas flow problems — which can span topics from spacecraft exhaust plumes to tiny micro-electro-mechanical systems, or MEMS,...
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Free, fast BLAST processing with friendly interface now available to faculty and their students
BLAST, the popular bioinformatics software, is now available to Purdue faculty and their students through a new graphical user interface running on Purdue’s DiaGrid distributed computing system. DiaGrid can make thousands of processors available at o...
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Carter cluster shows ability to accelerate research jobs, capacity still available
Capacity in Purdue’s latest community cluster is still available and the new research supercomputer is now in full production. Purdue faculty researchers using the Carter cluster report that it can significantly speed up time to results for many rese...
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BLASTer tool upgraded on DiaGrid Hub: BLASTer 1.1 released
A new version of DiaGrid's BLASTer tool has been released. Version 1.1 adds support for custom databases, allowing researchers to upload their own protein or nucleotide sequences to search against. This added flexibility makes BLASTer an even more po...
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Carter cluster getting good grades from faculty, capacity still available
Purdue faculty researchers using the Carter community cluster report that the University’s latest research supercomputer can significantly speed up time to results for many research applications and enable more complex simulations. Capacity in the Ca...
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Batch system and module changes on RCAC systems
Beginning with the new Carter cluster, RCAC users will note some differences in the PBS batch system and the module names available for use. This article aims to outline the reasons for these changes and describe some of the details. Why has ITaP cha...
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The DiaGrid Hub (https://web.archive.org/web/20100301000000*/http://www.dia-grid.org) has been upgraded, adding support for new features and improving the user experience. DiaGrid Hub now supports logging in with a Purdue Career Account. DiaGrid us...
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New HUBzero version has extensive research team coordination, collaboration features
The latest version of HUBzero, an open source “cyberinfrastructure in a box,” with new capability to create collaborative “project” areas within a hub, federated identity management, email integration, design improvements, and dozens of other new fea...
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BLASTer tool upgraded on DiaGrid Hub: BLASTer 1.2 released
The DiaGrid team is pleased to announce version 1.2 of the BLASTer bioinformatics tool. Version 1.2 adds several features, including better disk space utilization and the ability to sort runs by any field. BLASTer 1.2 is available for immediate use o...
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New R tool with access to thousands of processors available to Purdue researchers
A new Web-based R tool now available to Purdue faculty and their students through an accessible graphical interface and Purdue’s DiaGrid distributed computing system will be demonstrated in a November presentation by ITaP research computing staff. Th...
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This Purdue team is super — at supercomputing
Whether it’s developing new cancer treatments or tracking down the particles that make up the universe, not to mention powering Amazon or iTunes, Nick Molo knows high-performance computing is an essential tool. So the Purdue junior in computer engine...
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Purdue highlighting versatile HUBzero technology and more at international supercomputing conference
For researchers like Nick Marra, who’s studying genes in evolutionary adaptation, using BLAST, the standard software for DNA and other biological sequence searches, is now easier and faster with BLASTer, a Web-based version of BLAST sporting a friend...
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Trinity RNAseq assembly software running on RCAC Clusters
Trinity RNAseq assembly on the RCAC Clusters Trinity on the RCAC clusters. Trinity is a software package for reconstructing genetic sequences from RNA transcripts. It runs well on RCAC cluster nodes, with some consideration for the specific challenge...
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Purdue student supercomputing team has had its coffee and is off and running
Tyler Reid started work Monday in the wee hours of the morning, benchmarking the student-run supercomputer being operated by six Purdue undergraduates in an international competition this week. But while Reid pushed the machine to its limits, all the...
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Students gain new perspectives on supercomputing, breakfast, mattresses
As a student worker helping maintain Purdue’s research supercomputers, Andrew Huff knows something about how University faculty researchers use the machines, but he gained a broader perspective on the high-performance computing field this week. Super...
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New class will have students building, running their own supercomputer
When his computer architecture class gets to solving bottlenecks various applications tend to hit, Ethan Madden figures he will be in familiar territory. After all, the junior in computer science from Newburgh spent most of the semester figuring out...
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Research computing coffee consultations offer benefits for would-be, new and experienced users
Graduate student Brett Lahner started attending the weekly, one-hour informal meetups hosted by ITaP Research Computing (RCAC) staff to help him with the bioinformatics work he’s begun in Professor Brian Dilkes plant genetics lab. “The clusters seem...
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Purdue student supercomputing team headed for competition in Germany
Aerospace engineering major Trevor Johnson has a career designing aircraft in mind and that means supercomputing to figure out how a design affects important performance factors, like the way air flows over an aircraft’s body. The senior from Orion,...
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Purdue researchers will have nation's fastest campus supercomputer—again
The next Community Cluster Program supercomputer, which ITaP is readying for use by faculty later this year, already has tested as the most powerful system for use by researchers on a single university campus in the country and as one of the top supe...