Science Highlights
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Jingjing Liang, an assistant professor of quantitative forest ecology in the department of forestry and natural resources, recently led a team that produced the first ever estimate of the total number of tree species in the world – and they did it wi...
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Women in HPC group hosting data processing training, speaker series in April
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group, led by Research Computing staff members, is hosting an online “Introduction to Data and Data Processing” workshop on Friday April 1 from 2-3:30 p.m. The workshop will be a beginner-level disc...
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A Purdue professor who searches for factors of very large numbers – work that is essential to keeping everything from nuclear weapons to personal banking information secure - is using new hybrid cloud capabilities between Purdue community HPC cluster...
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Research Computing’s Fortress storage archive expands capacity
The Fortress archival storage system has a new tape library that has expanded the archive’s capacity by a factor of five, from approximately 50 petabytes of data to more than 250 petabytes. The new SpectraLogic TFinity tape library can hold 9,000 tap...
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New Bell cluster GPUs helping Purdue researchers in neuroscience, chemical engineering
As part of a push to expand GPU computing capabilities to meet the needs of researchers working in AI and machine learning, Purdue Research Computing has added eight MI50 AMD GPUs and six MI60 AMD GPUs to the Bell community cluster – and they are alr...
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Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer aids in drug discovery
Purdue’s powerful new Anvil supercomputer is helping one researcher accelerate his biomolecular simulations and unlock new treatments for heart disease. Yinglong Miao, an assistant professor at the Center for Computational Biology and Department of M...
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Purdue's Anvil supercomputer now available for use
Purdue University's powerful new Anvil supercomputer, funded by the National Science Foundation and built in partnership with Dell and AMD, is now available for use. Anvil will significantly increase the computing capacity available to users of the N...
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Research Computing senior scientist awarded $25,000 Better Scientific Software fellowship
Amiya Maji, a senior computational scientist for Research Computing, has been named a 2022 Fellow by the Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship Program, which aims to foster and promote practices, processes, and tools to improve developer produ...
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Research Computing scientist co-PI on $15 million NSF Institute
Research Computing senior research scientist Carol Song is the co-principal investigator on a five year $15 million award from the National Science Foundation establishing a new institute for geospatial data-driven scientific research. The institute...
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Purdue chemical engineers have used Research Computing community clusters to develop a machine learning framework that creates various structural models of how a catalyst, aiding a chemical reaction, might be transformed under the reaction environmen...
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CAAV conference happening at Purdue next week
Purdue’s Envision Center will host the sixth annual Campus Alliance for Advanced Visualization (CAAV) conference on Nov. 1-4. Laura Theademan, senior operations manager for the Envision Center, is the conference chair. The conference focuses on colla...
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Research Computing executive director presents to federal agencies
Preston Smith, executive director of Research Computing, spoke last week at the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program’s working group on high-end computing about the campus perspective on the health of the HPC...
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Envision Center helps professor study how memories form with virtual reality for mice
A Purdue research team studying memory had a unique request recently for the Envision Center. A virtual reality system – for a mouse. Krishna Jayant, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and his graduate student Hammad Khan, worked with...
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Research Computing playing leading role in $2 million sustainability project
Research Computing is playing a leading role in the Global to Local Analysis of Systems Sustainability (GLASSNET) project, a collaborative effort to address sustainability issues related to land and water use that is funded by a $2 million award from...
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Geddes composable cloud platform advancing science through national computing network
Purdue’s new cloud-based composable platform, Geddes, is one of the top resources used by researchers on the Open Science Grid’s (OSG) Open Science Pool, a collection of computing resources available to researchers across the country. Geddes is a com...
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Purdue-led workshop series produces report on best practices for regulated research data
A Purdue-led workshop series about how higher education institutions manage regulated research data, such as Department of Defense work or health sciences research, has led to a paper published this week on the EDUCAUSE Cybersecurity Resources page....
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Purdue to host visualization conference this fall
Purdue’s Envision Center will host the sixth annual Campus Alliance for Advanced Visualization (CAAV) conference on Nov. 1-4, 2021. Presentations are currently being solicited and those interested in submitting proposals should complete the form here...
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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...
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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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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,...