Science Highlights
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Research computing coffee consultations can benefit would-be, new and experienced users
Dave Jacoby, a developer for Purdue’s Genomics Core Facility, has been a regular at the weekly meetups hosted by ITaP Research Computing (RCAC) staff, in part because ITaP is now filling a portion of the lab’s server and data storage needs. The one-h...
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Virtual environments will help engineering students learn how to inspect bridges
Hauling a classroom of engineering students to a busy highway bridge to teach them how to inspect for cracks, corrosion and other damage is a logistical challenge and a bit dicey from a safety perspective. But Robert Connor, associate professor of ci...
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Hadoop cluster now available for Purdue researchers analyzing big data
Professor William Cleveland and colleagues analyze terabytes of cybersecurity data looking for new ways to identify and combat spammers, data thieves and other Internet bad guys. To do it, Cleveland, Purdue’s Shanti S. Gupta Professor of Statistics,...
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National Cancer Informatics hub building a community to accelerate cancer research, discovery
In search of a platform to build a collaborative community of cancer informatics researchers, Ishwar Chandramouliswaran came across nanoHub.org, a nanotechnology website which seemed to have everything he and his colleagues wanted. It could do things...
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Purdue, Globus partnership gives researchers an easy way to move big data to and from campus
Purdue doctoral student Archana Tankasala is studying electron interactions in few-electron systems involving 1.5 to 2 million atoms as part of research that could contribute to development of quantum computers exponentially more capable than today’s...
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Team of Purdue and Colombian students share a common language - supercomputing
Student supercomputing competitions have taken Kurt Kroeger to Salt Lake City, Leipzig, Germany, and now New Orleans, but they also have him headed for an even more intriguing destination — his future. Kroeger is part of the six-member combined Purdu...
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ThinLinc lets Purdue researchers access community clusters from almost anywhere
When Purdue Professor Michael Grant found himself in Ohio with nothing but a 4G LTE cellular connection to get back to campus, his research employing Purdue’s community cluster supercomputers did not grind to a halt. Grant fired up a piece of softwar...
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Arif Khan isn’t just using Purdue’s Conte cluster supercomputer and its Intel Xeon Phi accelerators to develop better ways to find a needle in a haystack. He’s making it easier and much faster to find the best needles in a stack of needles. Khan is a...
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Research Data Depot makes moving video for psychology research easy
Joel Sprunger, a Purdue doctoral student in clinical psychology, had a problem — a whole lot of video to move from Indianapolis to Purdue and to Georgia State University, where he and his collaborators on a research project are looking at the mechani...
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Purdue's new research supercomputer designed to fit a variety of computational needs
Purdue’s latest Community Cluster Program research supercomputer offers faculty and campus units more than just one big community in which to settle their research computations. The new community cluster has neighborhoods, too. Need big memory? There...
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DiaGrid helps advance biomedical imaging for understanding and treating cancer and other diseases
Purdue’s DiaGrid hub is helping advance a biomedical imaging technique capable of precisely capturing mechanical properties of bodily tissue, which could improve diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer and other diseases. DiaGrid now houses a Web-ba...
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Fast and furious: Purdue building its newest research supercomputer in less than a day
More than 100 staff members and volunteers will build Purdue’s’s latest high-performance computing cluster in a fast and furious race with the clock Friday, May 8, that should culminate in the machine running science computations by afternoon. It wil...
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Rice, Purdue's eighth research supercomputing cluster in as many years, gets off to a running start
If Kim Hoogewind is an indication, Purdue’s latest research supercomputer is going to be busy. The doctoral student was simulating future severe weather patterns on part of the supercomputer, named Rice, before all of it was even unboxed. More than 1...
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Student supercomputing team from Purdue, Colombia aims for super performance in Germany
Purdue computer science major Emma Wynne has spent a lot of time writing programs for her classes, but not so much on the hardware where those programs run. That made the opportunity to help build and operate a student-run supercomputer in an interna...
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Purdue again leads the nation in supercomputing systems for campus research
Severe thunderstorms and the potential for tornadoes are a fact of life in Indiana, at Purdue no less than the rest of the state. Dan Dawson wants to better understand the complex behaviors of these storms to eventually help provide people with more...
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Purdue supercomputer usage and failure data research could make supercomputers even more super
Purdue’s Community Cluster Program supercomputers are used by campus researchers to look at everything from the molecular machinery of viruses to the origins of the universe and myriad science, engineering and social science problems in between. But...
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New Rice community cluster research supercomputer ready for faculty
Carlo Scalo’s research relies on large-scale computer simulations to support modeling and fundamental investigations of complex fluid dynamic systems with a wide range of applications including heat and mass transfer, acoustics and high-speed aerodyn...
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New imaging technology developed using Rice cluster could make images from CT scans better, faster
Sharper images to aid diagnoses from medical scans that also can be generated faster, making them less expensive and exposing patients to lower doses of radiation, could be one benefit of technology being developed by campus researchers using Purdue’...
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Life science use of community clusters experiencing significant growth
Vikki Weake’s lab has its eyes on genes involved in sight — and sight’s deterioration with aging — research that might lead to new ways of prolonging the eyes’ lifespan. “The eye is actually very accessible for treatment,” notes Weake, a Purdue assis...
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Complex systems like oceans are driven by myriad factors and interactions that need to be understood in order to better understand the whole. In the case of the oceans, even some of the smaller organisms swimming there may have significant impacts, c...