Science Highlights
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Purdue University receives $4.9 million NSF award to enhance Anvil to support AI research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently awarded a $4.9 million supplement for Anvil, Purdue University’s most powerful supercomputer. This funding has been given in part to support the newly launched National Artificial Intelligence Resear...
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The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Negishi supercomputer, RCAC’s newest community cluster, is playing a key role in the research of Purdue assistant professor of materials engineering Arun Mannodi Kanakkithodi and his lab. Mannodi, who...
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Mathematical Sciences Building Data Center receives approval for renovations
On Friday, August 2, the Purdue Board of Trustees gave approval to finance, construct, and award construction contracts for a $16M renovation to the Mathematical Sciences Building Data Center. This long-awaited renovation will result in a 32% increas...
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New data storage options for cloud workflows now available with RCAC
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has recently upgraded the data storage options available to researchers. Thanks to a grant awarded through the National Science Foundation’s Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) program, RCAC now offers stor...
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Long time community cluster partner wins prestigious Purdue research award
Matthew Huber, the David E. Ross Director of the Purdue Institute for a Sustainable Future and a professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences, was recently awarded the Herbert Newby McCoy Award for outstanding work in the natural sciences....
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Anvil helps researchers study particle dynamics for hypersonic vehicles
Hypersonic flight—that is, flying faster than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound—has been around longer than you may think. The first object of human origin to achieve hypersonic flight dates back to 1949 when the U.S. Army test-fired a multi-s...
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RCAC staff to present at national research computing conference
Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) staff will present papers, lead workshops and participate in panels at the upcoming Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference, themed “HPC: Human Powered Computing,” which wil...
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Anvil to support upcoming BigCARE 2024 Summer Workshop
The 2024 BigCARE Summer Workshop is soon to commence at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). This year will be UCI’s first time hosting the summer workshop, with the university opening its doors from July 14-26 for all cancer researchers to co...
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RCAC hosts successful summer camps related to cybersecurity, coding
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted two summer camps aimed at high schoolers, with the hopes of giving them an introduction into the college experience by providing them the ability to earn college credit, explore potential...
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Purdue awarded two NSF grants to enhance networking for research
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure has recently awarded Purdue University two new Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) grants. The two awards, totaling nearly $1.5 million, will directly address and enhance the...
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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...
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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 –...
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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...
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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 (...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...