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  • RCAC hosts successful 2025 Research Computing CI Symposium in Indianapolis

    Earlier this month, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) hosted the 2025 Research Computing Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Symposium. This event marked the third CI Symposium put on by RCAC, and the first to take advantage of the beautiful space...

  • Staff Spotlight: Rajesh Kalyanam says goodbye to RCAC after nearly two decades of major contributions

    Rajesh Kalyanam, a senior research scientist in the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Scientific Solutions Group (SSG) who has played a major role in the funding of projects like GABBs, GeoEDF and Anvil, is leaving RCAC this week after 19 years o...

  • Purdue-connected software company uses Weber cluster in AI, quantum computing tool awarded SBIR DLA grant

    A Purdue-connected software company used the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Weber computing cluster to develop a tool that resulted in a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), which contracts,...

  • CollabXR advances education through successful pilot program

    Purdue University’s Envision Center (EC) is ushering in the next generation of teaching and learning by leveraging their cutting-edge virtual reality platform, CollabXR. CollabXR is a shared learning platform that puts advanced visualizations at the...

  • RCAC Student Spotlight: Augusto Butkewitsch

    Name: Augusto Butkewitsch Year: Sophomore  Major:  Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics  Position in RCAC: Programmer   Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Augusto and I’m a programmer!   What a...

  • RCAC partners with faculty member on autism diagnostic tool

    A new collaboration between the Rosen Center and Advanced Computing (RCAC) and a Purdue faculty member aims to make it easier to detect autism earlier and more accurately. Brandon Keehn, associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences an...

  • Purdue awarded Western Digital storage to enable big data health research

    Purdue University was recently awarded 1.2 Petabytes of hard disk drive (HDD) storage from Western Digital to further enable research that relies on quick access to big data repositories. This award, granted through Western Digital’s Petabyte Innovat...

  • Anvil used to advance research on two-phase flows

    Researchers from The George Washington University used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to simulate fluid flows in order to elucidate the physics of turbulent bubble entrainment. Understanding this process will lead to practical applications in a variety...

  • Gautschi Support Hour now available for system users

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce special-purpose support and training times for Gautschi system users, the Gautschi Support Hour. Much like our Anvil Support Hour, the Gautschi Support Hour will be a designated, o...

  • RCAC’s Negishi cluster helps nuclear engineering researcher parallelize and scale electroporation model

    A nuclear engineering graduate student at Purdue has partnered with RCAC staff to use the Negishi cluster to refine and scale his model. Samuel Wyss, who recently graduated with his master’s degree in nuclear engineering under the supervision of Alle...

  • Purdue to host 2025 GlobusWorld Tour Workshop

    Purdue University’s Rosen Center of Advanced Computing (RCAC) is pleased to announce, in conjunction with GlobusWorld Tour, an all-day Globus workshop. Taking place on August 8, from 8:30 a.m. until 3:00 PM, the in-person workshop will cover a variet...

  • Purdue receives $4 million NSF grant for StreamCI data streaming platform

    Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is leading a major National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded to create an artificial intelligence (AI)-ready streaming data platform for researchers across domains. This new platfor...

  • RCAC student improves Anvil supercomputer while obtaining Master’s degree

    Vivek Karunai Kiri Ragavan, a Graduate Research Assistant at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), recently obtained his Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Information and Technology. His MS thesis was related to the work he conducte...

  • RCAC staff to present at national research computing conference next week

    Staff members from the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) will present papers, lead workshops and participate in panels at the upcoming Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference, themed: “The Power of Collabora...

  • RCAC Student Spotlight: David Piedra

    Name: David Piedra Year: Junior Major: Cybersecurity Position: Research Support Developer Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is David and I’m a Research Support Developer! What are some of your main inte...

  • Second annual RCAC summer camps are a huge success

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted two summer camps for high schoolers with the goal of introducing and developing cybersecurity and coding skills. With these camps, the students not only learned new skills, but also had t...

  • Anvil AI now available to ACCESS researchers

    Researchers nationwide can now request access to the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) new national artificial intelligence (AI) resource, Anvil AI. Purdue University's powerful national HPC-resource, the Anvil supercomputer, recently rece...