Science Highlights
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Purdue team chosen to compete in international supercomputing competition
When the top undergraduate student supercomputing teams convene in Denver, Colo. later this month, Purdue will again be one of just 16 teams in the competition. Claudia Li, a junior in neurobiology, is a veteran of the all-women Purdue squad that com...
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Envision Center VR app teaches construction workers not to fall
ITaP’s Envision Center has publicly released a virtual reality application designed to teach construction workers how to avoid falls, as well as the application’s underlying source code. The application, developed in collaboration with James Jenkins,...
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Purdue professor pieces together how massive stars explode using virtual reality
When giant stars in the Milky Way galaxy explode, they leave behind a trail of dust and gas that astronomers on Earth can observe for many thousands of years. In partnership with ITaP’s Envision Center, Dan Milisavljevic, an assistant professor of ph...
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In the coming weeks, each community cluster supercomputer operated by ITaP Research Computing will transition to Slurm, a new batch job scheduling system. Slurm is more scalable on large systems such as the community clusters than the current PBS-bas...
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Purdue professor studies household financial decisions with the help of ITaP data analysis system
Whether your house has recently gained or lost value could predict how likely you are to vote in the next election. That’s the conclusion of recent research from Ben McCartney, an assistant professor of finance who studies household finance and real...
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Envision Center available to collaborate with faculty on virtual instruction
As Purdue faculty continue teaching remotely, ITaP’s Envision Center can provide a way to deliver the kinds of hands-on, laboratory-based instruction students typically can’t get through online lectures. The Envision Center, which celebrated its fift...
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College of Engineering, ITaP Research Computing team studies supercomputer reliability
Researchers running demanding computations, especially for projects like infectious disease modeling that need to be re-run frequently as new data becomes available, rely on supercomputers to run efficiently with as few failures of the software as po...
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Can video games save the honeybee?
While many of us know that bees and other insects face a precarious future, few people have concrete plans to do anything about it. A Purdue professor is hoping to change that by using virtual learning modules, developed in collaboration with ITaP’s...
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New community cluster Bell arriving this year, space available for purchase now
Purdue’s newest community cluster supercomputer will be twice as fast as the retired Conte cluster, which was the nation’s fastest campus supercomputer at the time it was built just seven years ago. The new cluster, known as “Bell” after Purdue nursi...
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ITaP-led team awarded NSF grant to create composable campus cloud ecosystem for research
A team comprised of technical experts from ITaP Research Computing and computational faculty from across campus has been awarded a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $392,205 (NSF award number #2018926) to develop a...
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Professor models novel coronavirus proteins with the help of ITaP supercomputers
Daisuke Kihara, a professor of biological sciences and computer science, has used Purdue’s supercomputers to develop computational models of the proteins in the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that may prove useful for the development of drugs to treat...
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Bell, one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, now available for faculty use
Purdue’s newest community cluster supercomputer, Bell, has debuted at number 431 on the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, announced today at the SC20 supercomputing conference. With a top processing speed of 1.624 petaFLOPs, Be...
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Purdue team develops powerful new machine learning technique using Gilbreth community cluster
A Purdue team has used the Gilbreth community cluster operated by ITaP Research Computing to develop a new algorithm that uses the power of multiple GPU nodes to accelerate the training time of machine learning models. “I can submit 50 to 100 jobs at...
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Purdue selected as Microsoft Azure HPC and AI Collaboration Center
Purdue will be one of five inaugural Microsoft Azure HPC and AI Collaboration Centers, Microsoft announced today. The Purdue center will demonstrate best practices for using Microsoft’s Azure HPC cloud computing platform to augment both on-campus sup...
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Machine learning tool for astronomical data deluge developed on Brown community cluster
A new telescope in Chile will soon be surveying the night sky more comprehensively than any before it, imaging the entire sky every three days, and looking deep into the universe thanks to its eight meter mirror. While it’s an incredible resource for...
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Envision Center app helps train future nurses
A multi-disciplinary collaboration between the School of Nursing, the School of Industrial Engineering, the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and ITaP has developed new ways to improve training for nursing students. Amy Nagle, clinical assistan...
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ITaP community cluster used to model enterovirus antibodies
A Purdue research team has used ITaP’s community clusters to model antibodies that neutralize enterovirus D68, a respiratory virus that sometimes causes a polio-like illness in children. Collaborators at Vanderbilt University had identified antibodie...
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Purdue research team using community clusters to track COVID-19 variants and malaria
A Purdue professor leading genomic analysis of the novel coronavirus in a university setting is using Research Computing supercomputers in her work, which is critical to tracking variant spread and staying one step ahead of the virus. Giovanna Carpi,...
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Research Computing expanding GPU capabilities to meet researchers’ AI needs
As computational research increasingly involves artificial intelligence and machine learning methods, ITaP Research Computing is adding GPU nodes to its community clusters to better serve researchers who use these tools. Research Computing recently a...
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Envision Center VR app teaches residential construction safety
A Purdue professor has partnered with ITaP’s Envision Center to teach construction workers to avoid falls using virtual reality. Instead of watching an instructor click through a series of dull PowerPoint slides, trainees can now step into a virtual...