Purdue Professor Charles Bouman says his lab’s move to powerful supercomputers like Purdue’s new Conte community cluster is driven by need. That need...
On Thursday, Oct 10, a BlueArc scratch fileserver suffered a filesystem failure that resulted in data loss on several scratch filesystems. In light of...
On the outside that may look like a shipping container deposited behind a security fence at the Purdue power plant, but it’s what’s inside that counts...
Introductory Documentation Conte Users' Guide Introduction to Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor: covers architecture, execution models, optimization, vec...
A portion of the Carter community cluster, which faculty and their students use for computationally demanding research, is now available to give Purdu...
On the outside that may look like a shipping container deposited behind a security fence at the Purdue power plant, but it’s what’s inside that counts...
The next Community Cluster Program supercomputer, which ITaP is readying for use by faculty later this year, already has tested as the most powerful s...
Aerospace engineering major Trevor Johnson has a career designing aircraft in mind and that means supercomputing to figure out how a design affects im...
Graduate student Brett Lahner started attending the weekly, one-hour informal meetups hosted by ITaP Research Computing (RCAC) staff to help him with...
When his computer architecture class gets to solving bottlenecks various applications tend to hit, Ethan Madden figures he will be in familiar territo...
As a student worker helping maintain Purdue’s research supercomputers, Andrew Huff knows something about how University faculty researchers use the ma...
Tyler Reid started work Monday in the wee hours of the morning, benchmarking the student-run supercomputer being operated by six Purdue undergraduates...
Trinity RNAseq assembly on the RCAC Clusters Trinity on the RCAC clusters. Trinity is a software package for reconstructing genetic sequences from RNA...
For researchers like Nick Marra, who’s studying genes in evolutionary adaptation, using BLAST, the standard software for DNA and other biological sequ...
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...
A new Web-based R tool now available to Purdue faculty and their students through an accessible graphical interface and Purdue’s DiaGrid distributed c...
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...
The latest version of HUBzero, an open source “cyberinfrastructure in a box,” with new capability to create collaborative “project” areas within a hub...
The DiaGrid Hub (https://web.archive.org/web/20100301000000*/http://www.dia-grid.org) has been upgraded, adding support for new features and improving...
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 arti...