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  • 20-year birthday celebration for the Envision Center

    Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Envision Center, a group dedicated to assisting, supporting, and collaborating with faculty, students, and industry in scientific visualization, virtu...

  • WHPC event highlights the importance of women in STEM

    Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently hosted a presentation surrounding Rebecca Sharples’s Doctor of Education (Ed.D) dissertation, which was inspired by the remarkable life journey of Suzanna Gardner, the Senior Research...

  • Anvil supercomputer slated to assist with national pilot project aimed at advancing AI

    Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer is now an official resource provider for the newly launched National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot. The NAIRR is a National Science Foundation (NSF) project aimed at creating a nationa...

  • Purdue professor uses Envision Center motion capture technology for AI music project

    A Purdue professor is using the Envision Center’s motion capture technology for a project focusing on AI applications with musical instruments. Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun, a clinical associate professor of music, is using motion capture technology while pla...

  • RCAC hosts outreach event for local high schoolers

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted an outreach activity for the Southport High School Engineering, Computer Science, and Robotics students and the school’s Girls Who Code group. During the event, the high schoolers learned...

  • Envision Center event lets RCAC students showcase projects

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted a student presentation event at the Envision Center, which gave RCAC’s student employees a chance to demonstrate their hard work and achievements over the last year. More than 20 student...

  • Political science professor pushes boundaries in his field with research in virtual reality, thanks to Envision Center

    In collaboration with the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Envision Center, a Purdue political scientist is leveraging the immersive nature of virtual reality and incorporating it into his research in ways that are novel for his field. Br...

  • RCAC student employee successfully defends Master’s Thesis

    Yiqing Qu, a Graduate Research Assistant at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), recently obtained her Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Information and Technology. Her MS thesis was related to the work she conducted at RCAC, which...

  • Anvil helps researchers simulate and predict gravitational waves

    Scientists from the collaborative Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) research group are using Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to explore the physics of cataclysmic space-time events and help shed light on the nature of one of the Universe’s fundamental...

  • Industrial engineering students analyze RCAC cluster data for senior capstone project

    For their senior capstone course IE431, a group of recent industrial engineering graduates worked with RCAC staffers to analyze data from RCAC systems and build an interactive dashboard aimed at reducing system downtime. Working with Kyle Purple, RCA...

  • Anvil enters year three of production

    Anvil, Purdue’s most powerful supercomputer, continues its pursuit of excellence in HPC as it enters its third year of operations. Funded by a $10 million acquisition grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Anvil began early user operations...

  • Worldwide particle physics experiment relies on Geddes cluster

    Purdue is a large contributor of computing power to a major particle physics experiment, which relies on the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Geddes community cluster, among others, to process and analyze large datasets in real time. The...

  • MyGeoHub successfully hosts the 2024 SIMPLE-G Short Course

    MyGeoHub, the geospatial science gateway designed to support geospatial modeling, data analysis, and visualization, has a lot to offer to the broad research and education communities. Through hosting groups, datasets, tools, training materials, and e...

  • The future of teaching and learning has arrived

    Purdue University’s Envision Center, part of the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, has developed a virtual reality platform that utilizes the Meta Quest 3 headsets to bring the future of teaching and learning to our doorstep. The Envision Center (...

  • Graduate student sponsored by Purdue Women in HPC honored with best poster award at canine genetics conference

    Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently sponsored Jeanna Blake, a doctoral student in the College of Veterinary Medicine, so she could attend the 12th International Conference on Canine and Feline Genetics and Genomics (ICC...

  • RCAC participates in the Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium annual meeting

    Suzanna Gardner, Senior Research Operations Administrator of Outreach and Engagement for the Anvil supercomputer at RCAC, and Laura Theademan, Director of Center Operations and Visualization at RCAC, recently presented at the 2024 Minority Serving –...

  • New testbed Rowdy now available

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce the addition of a new testbed named Rowdy to its computational resources. Rowdy serves as a technology testbed designed for the evaluation and benchmarking of cutting-edge computin...

  • Purdue awarded two NSF grants to enhance networking for research

    The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure has recently awarded Purdue University two new Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) grants. The two awards, totaling nearly $1.5 million, will directly address and enhance the...

  • RCAC hosts successful summer camps related to cybersecurity, coding

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted two summer camps aimed at high schoolers, with the hopes of giving them an introduction into the college experience by providing them the ability to earn college credit, explore potential...

  • Anvil to support upcoming BigCARE 2024 Summer Workshop

    The 2024 BigCARE Summer Workshop is soon to commence at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). This year will be UCI’s first time hosting the summer workshop, with the university opening its doors from July 14-26 for all cancer researchers to co...