Science Highlights
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Professor succeeds in protein modeling competitions using Purdue’s community clusters
The basketball court isn’t the only place that Purdue has been winning lately. Using the Carter and Rice community cluster supercomputers operated by ITaP, Professor Daisuke Kihara and his team have proven themselves among the best in the world at mo...
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Envision Center projects showcased for President Daniels
Purdue President Mitch Daniels’ job certainly offers diverse experiences, like stepping inside the human body and docking drug molecules to proteins. That’s one thing President Daniels experienced when he visited ITaP’s Envision Center on Feb. 1 for...
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Professor teaches big data analysis using new, interactive version of ITaP’s Scholar cluster
You might not expect a 7:30 a.m. class to be lively and well-attended, but Mark Daniel Ward packed students into his classroom at that hour last semester. The subject? Techniques for analyzing big data through a series of projects using Purdue’s Scho...
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Purdue students gain hands-on experience with virtual reality at Envision Center
Purdue student employees at ITaP’s Envision Center are working with cutting-edge technology to build virtual reality simulations and data visualization tools for research and education. Using the Microsoft HoloLens – a mixed-reality headset that is n...
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Coffee Break Consultations help Purdue faculty, students use research computing resources
As part of her research at Purdue’s Intelligent Infrastructure Systems Laboratory, Alana Wilbee creates fragility curves that indicate how likely a building is to be damaged by an earthquake. She simulates the effects of thousands of different kinds...
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An online mentoring community that connects plant scientists with secondary school students to work on student-designed research projects found the tools it needed to expand in HUBzero, Purdue’s open-source platform for scientific collaboration. Plan...
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New Halstead research supercomputer enables groundbreaking Indiana climate study
Researchers from the Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC) are using ITaP’s new Halstead research supercomputer to develop high-resolution models of the climate and extreme weather events in Indiana over the next century. Through the Indiana...
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New Halstead research supercomputing cluster ready for use by Purdue faculty
ITaP has built Purdue’s ninth research supercomputing system in as many years through the Community Cluster program, which gives Purdue researchers the best collection of high-performance computing resources for use on a single campus in the country....
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SafeRx database enables large-scale study of prescription medication safety
When you walk away from your doctor’s office with a prescription in hand, you may think your problem has been solved – but a new set of health issues may be just beginning. “Prescription medicines actually have a propensity to harm the very people th...
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DataCenterHub addresses challenges with preserving, sharing research data
All too familiar with the phrase “publish or perish,” researchers aren’t shy about sharing their results with colleagues, but they often don’t effectively store and share the full set of data that leads to those results. “This is a large problem, and...
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Purdue Libraries, ITaP collaborate on guide to data storage options at Purdue
Faculty and staff from the Purdue University Libraries and ITaP have compiled a user guide highlighting the different data storage options available to the Purdue community. The guide, which is a living document that will be updated over time to refl...
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Purdue is one of 19 partner institutions awarded a $110 million, five-year National Science Foundation grant to build on and expand the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). XSEDE accelerates open scientific discovery and bro...
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Student supercomputing team from Purdue, Colorado competes in Germany
When the time came to write and compile a computer program for his first-year engineering class, Austyn Cousins didn’t, unlike a lot of freshman, struggle with the assignment. A member of a student supercomputing team sponsored by ITaP, he already ha...
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Dark matter is worse than Big Foot. It’s big, in theory making up about a quarter of the universe versus just 5 percent for “normal” matter. But unlike the fabled Sasquatch nobody’s ever claimed to see dark matter. We don’t even have an out-of-focus...
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When the Zika virus became a global health crisis in early 2016, Purdue researchers were well prepared to make a breakthrough discovery in efforts to fight the virus. They had impressive virus expertise and plenty of high-performance computing power...
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Snyder cluster a key tool in research looking at why eyesight weakens with aging
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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Rice cluster an essential tool for professor’s drug discovery research
Chemical compounds that bind to a protein in treating one disease are likely to bind to similar proteins — and potentially to be useful for treating other diseases. Purdue Professor Gaurav Chopra is using nature’s tendency to use basic components acr...
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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...
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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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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’...