Announcements
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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...