Science Highlights
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Purdue team wins best student paper award at national research computing conference
A team of students who deployed an intrusion detection system on Purdue’s research network was awarded the Best Student Paper in the “Facilitation of Advanced Research Computing” track at the recent Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Comput...
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Scholar cluster now features GPUs, increased storage
Purdue students using Scholar, a cluster supercomputer ITaP makes available for classroom use, can now use GPUs to study subjects such as machine learning, cryogenic electron microscopy and data science. Nvidia sponsored Purdue’s most recent student...
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Brown supercomputer lifespan extended, space still available for purchase
ITaP Research Computing recently announced that the Brown community cluster supercomputer will remain in service through 2023, providing researchers with an additional year of value beyond the clusters’ typical five-year lifespan. “With the end of Mo...
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Purdue’s Box research storage service a key component of Eli Lilly collaboration
Researchers participating in Purdue’s five-year, $52 million life sciences collaboration with Eli Lilly & Co. are relying on Purdue’s instance of Box.com to help securely store and share their regulated health data. The Lilly collaboration was a...
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The Envision Center’s 15th anniversary is a chance to look back on the center’s accomplishments so far, while celebrating its next giant leap forward. At a recent public open house in celebration of the center’s birthday, technical director George Ta...
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Image processing software developed by ITaP staff engineer still used widely 30 years later
Software developed by an ITaP engineer has put geospatial data analysis in the hands of researchers and students for a generation now. MultiSpec was developed in 1988 by ITaP’s Larry Biehl, who was then at the Laboratory of Applications in Remote Sen...
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Purdue intercultural learning center flourishes with the help of HUBzero
Purdue’s Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment and Research (CILMAR) has turned to HUBzero, an ITaP-developed cyberinfrastructure for building interactive science websites, to better achieve their mission of bringing intercultural...
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Purdue soil scientist digs into data with the help of ITaP Research Computing
A Purdue professor who studies how the physical and chemical properties of soils change across landscapes is using a new ITaP Research Computing data analysis tool to speed up computations for his research. Jason Ackerson, an assistant professor of a...
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Polytechnic, ITaP team awarded NSF grant to generate framework for working with regulated data
As researchers increasingly need to work with data governed by various federal regulations, ITaP is developing solutions the Purdue community can use in working with such data. In recent years, ITaP Research Computing partnered with other campus unit...
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A project led by ITaP Research Computing staff has been awarded a two-year, $323,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF award number #1827184) to build a high-speed network infrastructure that will quickly and reliably get big data from...
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Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group was recently announced as one of the first chapters selected for affiliation with the international Women in HPC organization’s new pilot program. Purdue WHPC was co-founded by Gladys Andino,...
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Regular maintenance, being memory conscious among factors that improve supercomputing success
If you change your car's oil regularly, rotate the tires and otherwise keep up with routine maintenance, you're less likely to experience a breakdown on the road. Turns out, the same thing could be said about your supercomputer, according to a study...
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Purdue’s latest research supercomputer will be optimized for machine learning, artificial intelligence and other graphics processing unit-based applications. The new cluster, known as Gilbreth, includes nodes featuring 16-core Intel Xeon Sky Lake pro...
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NSF awards $4.5 million grant to build platform for geospatial data management
A team led by ITaP Research Computing Senior Research Scientist Carol Song has been awarded a five-year, $4.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build a “plug and play” platform to allow researchers to easily access and process geo...
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Purdue Women in HPC member wins award at national research computing conference
Nicole Brewer, a senior in mathematics and computer science and a member of Purdue’s Women in HPC group, received the Phil Andrews Award at the 2018 Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference for her work on combinatori...
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Recently retired Conte cluster drove research in nanotechnology, many other fields
Purdue’s powerful Conte supercomputer, which retired on August 1 after five years of service, was crucial to the development of powerful nanotechnology tools. When it was built in 2013, Conte replaced its predecessor Carter as the fastest supercomput...
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Research computing conducts first high-performance computing course for life sciences
Hunched over their laptops in University Hall, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows typed out commands in R code, following along with Michael Gribskov, professor of biological sciences at Purdue, to explore differential gene expression analys...
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Networks work via nodes interacting, whether it’s proteins interacting on our cells, brain cells signaling each other, internet users passing along the latest hit meme or sophisticated financial products being exchanged, such as money moving between...
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New cluster gives Purdue researchers easy access to a large GPU-based system
Born to sling intricate graphics onscreen and raised by computer game makers, graphics processing units, GPUs for short, have grown up to become all the rage in high-performance computing, for science and engineering research and many other purposes....
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An interdisciplinary team of Purdue faculty is hosting its third annual boot camp to teach researchers in the biomedical sciences the fundamentals of big data science using Purdue’s Rice research supercomputer. “There’s this huge population of people...