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  • New testbed Rowdy now available

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce the addition of a new testbed named Rowdy to its computational resources. Rowdy serves as a technology testbed designed for the evaluation and benchmarking of cutting-edge computin...

  • RCAC participates in the Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium annual meeting

    Suzanna Gardner, Senior Research Operations Administrator of Outreach and Engagement for the Anvil supercomputer at RCAC, and Laura Theademan, Director of Center Operations and Visualization at RCAC, recently presented at the 2024 Minority Serving –...

  • Graduate student sponsored by Purdue Women in HPC honored with best poster award at canine genetics conference

    Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently sponsored Jeanna Blake, a doctoral student in the College of Veterinary Medicine, so she could attend the 12th International Conference on Canine and Feline Genetics and Genomics (ICC...

  • The future of teaching and learning has arrived

    Purdue University’s Envision Center, part of the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, has developed a virtual reality platform that utilizes the Meta Quest 3 headsets to bring the future of teaching and learning to our doorstep. The Envision Center (...

  • MyGeoHub successfully hosts the 2024 SIMPLE-G Short Course

    MyGeoHub, the geospatial science gateway designed to support geospatial modeling, data analysis, and visualization, has a lot to offer to the broad research and education communities. Through hosting groups, datasets, tools, training materials, and e...

  • Worldwide particle physics experiment relies on Geddes cluster

    Purdue is a large contributor of computing power to a major particle physics experiment, which relies on the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Geddes community cluster, among others, to process and analyze large datasets in real time. The...

  • Anvil enters year three of production

    Anvil, Purdue’s most powerful supercomputer, continues its pursuit of excellence in HPC as it enters its third year of operations. Funded by a $10 million acquisition grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Anvil began early user operations...

  • Industrial engineering students analyze RCAC cluster data for senior capstone project

    For their senior capstone course IE431, a group of recent industrial engineering graduates worked with RCAC staffers to analyze data from RCAC systems and build an interactive dashboard aimed at reducing system downtime. Working with Kyle Purple, RCA...

  • Anvil helps researchers simulate and predict gravitational waves

    Scientists from the collaborative Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) research group are using Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to explore the physics of cataclysmic space-time events and help shed light on the nature of one of the Universe’s fundamental...

  • RCAC student employee successfully defends Master’s Thesis

    Yiqing Qu, a Graduate Research Assistant at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), recently obtained her Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Information and Technology. Her MS thesis was related to the work she conducted at RCAC, which...

  • Political science professor pushes boundaries in his field with research in virtual reality, thanks to Envision Center

    In collaboration with the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Envision Center, a Purdue political scientist is leveraging the immersive nature of virtual reality and incorporating it into his research in ways that are novel for his field. Br...

  • Envision Center event lets RCAC students showcase projects

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted a student presentation event at the Envision Center, which gave RCAC’s student employees a chance to demonstrate their hard work and achievements over the last year. More than 20 student...

  • RCAC hosts outreach event for local high schoolers

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted an outreach activity for the Southport High School Engineering, Computer Science, and Robotics students and the school’s Girls Who Code group. During the event, the high schoolers learned...

  • Purdue professor uses Envision Center motion capture technology for AI music project

    A Purdue professor is using the Envision Center’s motion capture technology for a project focusing on AI applications with musical instruments. Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun, a clinical associate professor of music, is using motion capture technology while pla...

  • Anvil supercomputer slated to assist with national pilot project aimed at advancing AI

    Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer is now an official resource provider for the newly launched National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot. The NAIRR is a National Science Foundation (NSF) project aimed at creating a nationa...

  • WHPC event highlights the importance of women in STEM

    Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently hosted a presentation surrounding Rebecca Sharples’s Doctor of Education (Ed.D) dissertation, which was inspired by the remarkable life journey of Suzanna Gardner, the Senior Research...

  • 20-year birthday celebration for the Envision Center

    Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Envision Center, a group dedicated to assisting, supporting, and collaborating with faculty, students, and industry in scientific visualization, virtu...

  • Envision Center showcases innovation at recent campus events

    Festival of Teaching and Learning On the afternoon of April 12th, 2024, the Envision Center took part in Purdue University’s Festival of Teaching and Learning, hosted by the Blue Sky Teaching and Learning Laboratory. The festival was held to celebrat...

  • Envision Center hosts annual student presentation event

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Envision Center will host a student presentation event on Thursday, April 25 from 1-2:30 pm for the center’s students to share their work in a series of lightning talks. Vaughn Valentino, a junior dou...

  • Anvil assists in AI research to help boost pedestrian infrastructure

    Researchers from Purdue University used the Anvil supercomputer in their quest to automate sidewalk identification from Google Street View images and develop sidewalk maps for neighborhoods using computer vision techniques. Omar Faruqe Hamim is a Gra...