Science Highlights
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Purdue awarded Western Digital storage to enable big data health research
Purdue University was recently awarded 1.2 Petabytes of hard disk drive (HDD) storage from Western Digital to further enable research that relies on quick access to big data repositories. This award, granted through Western Digital’s Petabyte Innovat...
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RCAC partners with faculty member on autism diagnostic tool
A new collaboration between the Rosen Center and Advanced Computing (RCAC) and a Purdue faculty member aims to make it easier to detect autism earlier and more accurately. Brandon Keehn, associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences an...
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RCAC Student Spotlight: Augusto Butkewitsch
Name: Augusto Butkewitsch Year: Sophomore Major: Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics Position in RCAC: Programmer Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Augusto and I’m a programmer! What a...
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CollabXR advances education through successful pilot program
Purdue University’s Envision Center (EC) is ushering in the next generation of teaching and learning by leveraging their cutting-edge virtual reality platform, CollabXR. CollabXR is a shared learning platform that puts advanced visualizations at the...
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A Purdue-connected software company used the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Weber computing cluster to develop a tool that resulted in a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), which contracts,...
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Rajesh Kalyanam, a senior research scientist in the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Scientific Solutions Group (SSG) who has played a major role in the funding of projects like GABBs, GeoEDF and Anvil, is leaving RCAC this week after 19 years o...
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RCAC hosts successful 2025 Research Computing CI Symposium in Indianapolis
Earlier this month, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) hosted the 2025 Research Computing Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Symposium. This event marked the fourth CI Symposium put on by RCAC, and the first to take advantage of the beautiful space...
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CI-XP Student Presentations at the Envision Center
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted its annual CI-XP Student Program Lightning Talks, giving RCAC students a chance to showcase their projects and accomplishments to peers and staff within the organization. The CI-XP (Cyber...
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RCAC sponsors Purdue student hackathon challenge, awards Gautschi-AI hours to winner
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently sponsored a challenge at the Catapult Hackathon, an event put on by the ML@Purdue student club. RCAC’s sponsorship included an allocation of GPU hours on the Gaustschi community cluster, wi...
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The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is joining forces with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, through the newly launched Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) Lighthouse Initiative. Thanks to this partnersh...
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RCAC Student Spotlight: Ankitha Mallekav
Name: Ankitha Mallekav Year: Senior Major: Computer Engineering Position: HPC Research Assistant Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Ankitha Mallekav and I’m a senior working at RCAC as an HPC Res...
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Purdue student attends Game Developers Conference with WHPC support
Purdue graduate student Megha Bisht recently attended the 2025 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco with support from the university’s Women in High-Performance Computing group. Bisht, a first-year student in the Master of Engineering Manage...
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Anvil supercomputer supports Cryo-EM workshop
The Southeastern Center for Microscopy of Macromolecular Machines (SECM4) utilized Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer to host the 2024 SECM4 data processing workshop. The workshop focused on teaching researchers how to process data for single-pa...
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RCAC Seminar Series: The Case for Centralized Project Documentation
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has recently begun hosting a monthly seminar wherein an employee of the department has the opportunity to highlight their work. The latest RCAC seminar was presented by Chimdia Primus Kabuo, a Senior Res...
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Anvil REU Student presents at GOOD 2025
Richie Tan, one of the participants of the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) 2024 Anvil Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer program, recently presented at the Global Open OnDemand 2025 Conference (GOOD 2025). Tan highlighte...
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RCAC Student Spotlight: Koki Motoi
Name: Koki Motoi Year: Grad Student Major: Learning Design and Technology Position: Instructional Designer Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Koki Motoi and I’m a grad student working at RCAC as an Ins...
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Award-winning HyperShell software developed by RCAC helps simplify “many task” computing
RCAC staff members have developed a piece of software, known as HyperShell, that helps divide and conquer large volumes of discrete tasks to assist with scheduling and managing what’s known as “many task computing.” HyperShell has been dubbed “the ul...
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Purdue’s WHPC to host a presentation by Ursula Papandrea
Purdue University's Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) chapter is set to host a presentation by Ursula Papandrea on Friday, March 28th, at 10 a.m. Papandrea is a world-renowned competitor, coach, instructor, and leader in the sport of Weightl...
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RCAC sponsors two successful hackathons
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has had a busy start to the new year. From delivering top-notch HPC (high-performance computing) training events, giving presentations at different campuses and national meetings, and hosting demonstrati...
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Save the date for the 2025 Research Computing Cyberinfrastructure Symposium, hosted by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, which will be held at High Alpha, 830 Massachusetts Ave Suite 1500 Floor 4 in Indianapolis on May 1. This event is open to...