Science Highlights
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Purdue gains new AI capabilities with the addition of new Gautschi community cluster
Purdue’s community cluster program has been used by researchers from all Purdue academic departments, which demonstrates not only how integral computing and data are to cutting-edge research, but also how accessible RCAC resources are. The successful...
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RCAC successfully hosts third Anvil REU Summer program
Over the summer, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) hosted its third annual 11-week hands-on internship, the Anvil Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer 2024 program. Eight students from across the nation gathered at Purdue’...
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Purdue student attends TEDAI 2024 conference with Women in HPC support
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently sponsored a student to attend TEDAI 2024, a conference about the impact and power of AI that took place in San Francisco last month. Tanvi Kadari, a master’s student in engineering ma...
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Women in HPC sponsors student attendance at Society of Women Engineers conference
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group sponsored a student to attend the 2024 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) annual conference, WE24, which took place in Chicago in October. The Society of Women Engineers has been an advocate for...
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Purdue GenAI Studio, Purdue’s powerful new LLM service, now available
In collaboration with the Institute for Physical AI (IPAI), Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) now offers a powerful new feature in its artificial intelligence software services—Purdue GenAI Studio. Purdue GenAI Studio is...
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Purdue’s new Gautschi community cluster ranks 157 on list of world’s most powerful supercomputers
Purdue University’s newest community cluster Gautschi has debuted at number 157 on the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, which was announced this week at SC24, the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networ...
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Purdue University made an impressive showing at this year’s supercomputing conference, SC24. From offering innovative presentations and workforce development opportunities to receiving major awards, Purdue’s presence at SC24 highlighted why the unive...
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Purdue student attends SC24 conference with Women in HPC support
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently sponsored Durga Mandarapu, a doctoral student in computer science, to attend SC24, the international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis, whic...
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Gautschi-AI available for Purdue researchers
The highly anticipated Gautschi-AI system is now online and ready for use at Purdue University. This expansion of the new Gautschi supercomputer is designed to enhance artificial intelligence (AI) workflows and enable Purdue to lead the charge in AI...
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Industrial Engineering students present their RCAC Capstone Project
Six students from the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering recently completed their senior capstone project, which focused on helping to predict and reduce downtimes for RCAC’s computing systems. The group worked toward creating a predictive-ma...
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RCAC hosts weekly series of bioinformatics and genomics discussions beginning January 17
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is hosting a new online series of weekly bioinformatics and genomics discussions. The series, Genomics Exchange, offers researchers, graduate students and others interested in genomics and computati...
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Purdue professor uses Bell Cluster to study college course shutouts
It’s a problem familiar to every college student – courses are oversubscribed, and you can’t get into a class you need to stay on track – or even worse, to graduate. Now a Purdue professor is using Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) supercomp...
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Researchers from the University of Wisconsin (UW)–Madison used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to study turbulence and turbulent transport in astrophysical plasmas. This research seeks to elucidate the fundamental physics of turbulence, which will have...
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Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) uses liquid cooling of the servers in its data center to save 40% of the power compared to traditional cooling methods, increasing the sustainability of the data center and reducing the carbon footp...
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Purdue to host MATLAB Parallel Computing Workshop
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce a special two-session workshop titled “Parallel Computing with MATLAB.” MathWorks, the developer of MATLAB, is leading the workshop, which will take place at Purdue University on F...
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Envision Center to host Collab XR Demo Series
Purdue University’s Envision Center, part of the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), 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 technology...
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Purdue University’s powerful supercomputer, Anvil, recently received a major upgrade, thanks to funding provided by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) NAIRR Pilot Program. The new expansion has been installed and is now ready for use. With this...
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RCAC Student Spotlight: Nikitha Sivasankaravel
Name: Nikitha Sivasankaravel Year: Junior Major: Psychological Sciences Position: Student Communications Liaison/Student Writer Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Nikitha Sivasankaravel, and I’m the St...
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RCAC to be official sponsor of BoilerMake XII
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce their role as an official sponsor of the upcoming BoilerMake XII. BoilerMake is Purdue University’s premier hackathon, inviting undergraduate students from across the nation to joi...
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Researcher uses Anvil to improve wind farm power prediction
A researcher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to help create more accurate Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models for offshore wind farms. Better model predictions can lead to a slew of benefit...