Science Highlights
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Scholar cluster powers Purdue’s Formula SAE team to success in race car competition
Purdue's Formula SAE student racing team recently achieved the best result in their team’s 30-year history, thanks in large part to the use of the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Scholar cluster. Every year, the Formula SAE team designs...
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The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s newest community cluster Negishi, named in honor of distinguished professor of chemistry and Nobel laureate Ei-ichi Negishi, was dedicated Friday afternoon in a ceremony including Negishi’s daughters a...
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Anvil REU Program has major impact on student success
After only one year, the Anvil summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program is already impacting the lives and careers of the students who participated. Nrushad Joshi, an undergraduate student at Indiana University, recently accepted...
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Anvil helps Yale researchers in the search for batteries of the future
Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer has been helping researchers forge a path in developing the batteries of the future. Dr. Aakash Kumar, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science as well as the Energy Scien...
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Purdue researchers leading the fight against infectious diseases using Anvil
Purdue researchers are using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s powerful Anvil supercomputer to fight infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB). Elsje Pienaar, an associate professor at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, l...
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Envision Center collaboration aims to make construction work safer
New technology developed by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Envision Center in collaboration with a Purdue professor aims to make construction environments safer by helping workers better assess risk and avoid judgment errors. Sogand Hasanz...
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Envision Center hosting senior presentations, anniversary open house on April 24
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Envision Center is hosting an event to showcase the work of their graduating seniors on Monday, April 24 from 1-2:30 pm. The seniors will present their work in a series of lightning talks. The Envision Center...
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Anvil REU Program helps student achieve NASA internship
The Anvil summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program has once again proven invaluable for the students who participate in the hands-on learning experience. Lucas Snyder is an undergraduate student at Indiana University who studies In...
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RCAC hosts digital twin symposium featuring Purdue researchers, NVIDIA
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) held a symposium on digital twins at the Envision Center on April 11 featuring presentations from Purdue faculty and NVIDIA. A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical object that is used t...
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Recent GPU expansions to Gilbreth cluster increase capacity by 46%
After significantly expanding GPU computing capabilities in fall 2022, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has added 104 new NVIDIA A100 GPUs to the Gilbreth community cluster. Based on Dell PowerEdge R7525 compute nodes with .5 TB of RAM,...
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Purdue's Anvil supercomputer enters second year of production
Anvil, Purdue’s most powerful supercomputer, is hammering out progress as it forges ahead into the second year of operations. Funded by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Anvil began early user operations in November 2021...
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Research team using Anvil in hypersonics research
A team of researchers has been using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s powerful Anvil supercomputer to study gaseous jets in hypersonic crossflow, which is useful for understanding the operations of the systems that are used to steer a...
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Negishi supercomputer now available for faculty use
The Purdue Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s latest research supercomputer, Negishi, is now available for faculty use. Negishi, which is optimized for traditional, tightly-coupled science and engineering applications, was built through a p...
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Purdue’s Anvil Supercomputer Assists with COVID-19 Pandemic Response
A research group from the University of Virginia (UVA) utilized Purdue’s Anvil supercomputing cluster to help provide COVID-19 scenario modeling for local, state, federal, and university officials and departments. The team used computer models to pre...
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Envision Center student event gives seniors a chance to showcase projects
The Envision Center's recent senior presentation event held on April 24 was a success and gave the center’s graduating seniors a chance to showcase their hard work and accomplishments. Attendees were able to hear from their peers about their project...
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Cancer researchers learn about big data analysis using Anvil
The BigCare 2023 Summer Workshop, an on-site program that utilized the Anvil supercomputer to help train cancer researchers on how to harness the power of big data, has recently concluded, and based on participant feedback, it was a huge success! The...
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RCAC partners with Purdue faculty on NSF-funded cybertraining program
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is a partner on an $850,000 grant awarded to a team led by Venkatesh Merwade, professor of civil engineering, to create a cybertraining curriculum for climate, water and environmental (CWE) sustaina...
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RCAC supercomputers help Purdue professor unlock mysteries of mechanics and material chemistry
A Purdue researcher who studies material chemistry is using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) supercomputers to learn more about how materials behave in products like organic electronics and lithium-ion batteries. Kejie Zhao, professor...
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Anvil REU Student Lands Cybersecurity Role
MaKayla McCartan is an undergraduate student at Purdue University, where she majors in cybersecurity and minors in both sociology and organizational leadership. McCartan was a participant in the 2022 Anvil REU program, and has recently accepted an in...
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RCAC, College of Agriculture partner to reshape agriculture research
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has partnered with the College of Agriculture to develop cyberinfrastructure that better serves the computational and data management needs of agriculture researchers. The College of Agriculture’s A...