Announcements
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Steele supercomputer at Purdue makes list of world's most powerful systems
Purdue’s Steele supercomputing cluster—made possible by the collaborative efforts of faculty, staff and volunteers—is among the most powerful high performance computing systems in the world, according to rankings released at the SuperComputing ’08 co...
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Purdue team learns from Bandwidth challenge at supercomputing conference
A team of staff members from Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing learned some things likely to come in handy from competing in the Bandwidth Challenge at SuperComputing ’08, the world’s premier high performance computing conference. Purdue w...
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Purdue cluster challenge team creates a stir at supercomputing conference
Purdue’s team may not have won the Cluster Challenge at the SuperComputing ’08 Conference in Austin, Texas. Then again, no other team got to run code on a supercomputer powered by bicycling colleagues of seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armst...
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Purdue Cluster challenge team starts fast
Purdue’s Cluster Challenge team started off fast at the SuperComputing ’08 Conference in Austin, Texas, Monday evening (Nov. 17). As in 694 gigaflops fast. That’s the score the Purdue team posted with the unusual SiCortex supercomputer it is using in...
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Purdue and IU become computing teammates
Purdue University is adding to what is already the world's largest science-focused distributed computing system with the addition of computers from athletics rival, but longtime computing and research collaborator, Indiana University. IU is linking n...
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Visitors at supercomputing conference impressed with Purdue-developed technology
A Purdue-developed technology called HUBzero sounds chilly, but it looks to Chris McPhee like a hot way to allow researchers to do science on line easily in a graphical Web-based fashion, rather than typing in cryptic commands DOS style. “We’re tired...
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Pilot program lets users try Sun systems before making purchases
ITaP and Purchasing announce a pilot program designed to give researchers at Purdue rapid access to new computational hardware. The program also allows faculty and staff to test a variety of systems before making purchases. Since the equipment prices...
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Purdue Cluster Challenge team aiming to take technology to limits
Two groups of Purdue University students and staff will compete in events aimed at pushing the limits of technology to meet the needs of the scientific community. A team of five students enrolled in a high performance computing class at Purdue is gea...
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Game lets geeks compete to build virtual supercomputer
For those ready to get their geek on, Purdue University has created the computer game for you. Rack-A-Node is an online video game that lets those geeks who love both science and technology try their hand at designing and operating a simulated resear...
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Purdue Cluster Challenge team all set for Texas
Face it, even Peyton Manning would have trouble hitting his receiver were the Colts quarterback standing in Indianapolis while his target ran in Massachusetts. But long distance connection hasn’t been a problem for the Purdue SuperComputing ’08 Confe...
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From an easy way to do cutting-edge science in a Web-based environment today to getting ready to take advantage of tomorrow’s next-generation high performance computers, presentations planned by Purdue researchers at the SuperComputing ’08 conference...
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Purdue Bandwidth Challenge team: Go ahead, try this at home
Purdue’s Bandwidth Challenge entry at the SuperComputing ’08 conference is more like a NASCAR stock car than an Indy 500 racer. Instead of a specialized design you would never see on the street, nor in your average data center, which Bandwidth Challe...
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"Green" scales well, according to Purdue's early users
Early “tire kicking” by Purdue researchers is winning the University’s new “green” supercomputer some fans, although the results have been mixed for others and they all caution that more refining and testing need to be done. “It allows us to efficien...
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Class papers become prize winners for supercomputer-building Purdue students
For two students in Jeffrey Evans’ high-performance computing class at Purdue, homework turned out to have an unintentional, and lucrative, benefit. Andy Howard and Alex Younts, both of West Lafayette, Ind., walked away with the top student prize for...