Science Highlights
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Purdue Women in HPC hosting February workshop on gender stereotypes, bias
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group is hosting a workshop on February 9 from 1:30-5 p.m. at the Envision Center about the “default male” phenomenon and the pervasive influence of gender stereotypes based on the book “Invisible W...
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Registration is now open for RCAC's 2024 summer camps
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) will be organizing two summer camps for high school students as part of Purdue’s 2024 on-campus “Summer College for High School Students” program that gives high school students age 16 and up the ab...
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Team led by Purdue professor receives industry award for work done on RCAC’s Bell cluster
A team led by Purdue professor Guillermo Paniagua was honored with the “Best HPC Collaboration” award in HPCwire’s 2023 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards for its work developing novel engine components that will have implications for decarbonized p...
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Purdue to attend SC23 supercomputing conference, highlight “Purdue Computes” initiative
Purdue's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is set to host a booth at the upcoming SC23 Supercomputing conference, scheduled to take place in Denver, Colorado, from Nov. 12-17. The Purdue booth will highlight the recently announced “Purdue Co...
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Competitors on the court, colleagues in computing
High-performance computing (HPC) is booming in the state of Indiana. Two of the nation’s top National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded supercomputers reside on campuses within the state: Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer, located in West Lafayet...
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Women in HPC sponsors student attendance at Grace Hopper Celebration
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group sponsored a group of women students to attend the 2023 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing, which took place in Orlando, Fla. in September. Women who attended GHC participated...
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Researchers use Anvil supercomputer to study instabilities in polymers
Scientists from the Material Research and Innovation Laboratory (MRAIL) at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville used the Anvil supercomputer to obtain a deeper understanding of the Flow-induced structural instabilities of polymers and polymer dynami...
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Exploratory Series: Archaeology and HPC
Running from boulders, jumping across chasms, defeating villains while simultaneously finding ancient and mysterious artifacts—this is archaeology. Except, that’s not quite true. These are common misconceptions people tend to have about the field, an...
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RCAC students shine in summer internships across the nation
This past summer, Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) students ventured far and wide to gain invaluable professional experience at various companies throughout the nation. Their diverse journeys have showcased their talents...
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Women in HPC sponsors student attendance at SIGGRAPH conference
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group has sponsored student attendance at a series of conferences in 2023. One of those students, Kate Koury, who is earning a master’s degree in computer graphics technology, recently returned from...
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RCAC hosts second annual cyberinfrastructure symposium, focus on AI future and ethics
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) held its second annual cyberinfrastructure symposium “Cyberinfrastructure and AI” on October 12. The event, a follow-up to last year’s inaugural symposium, featured a keynote address from DataDirect Netw...
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The Emerging Technologies in Learning Design and Technology group in the College of Education, led by Victoria Lowell, and George Takahashi from the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Envision Center, are collaborating to offer a new three-...
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Anvil REU Summer 2023 program is a tremendous success
After 11 weeks of hard work and hands-on education, the Anvil Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer 2023 program has come to a close. This year’s Anvil REU program saw five students from across the nation gather at Purdue’s campus in We...
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Introducing CryoSPARC: Anvil’s powerful new software aimed at bioscience research
The Anvil supercomputer has recently received a full integration of CryoSPARC, a state-of-the-art HPC software solution designed to enable the complete processing of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data. With this new addition to...
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Purdue research team uses 100 RCAC GPUs to create urban representations of 330 US cities
In a multidisciplinary endeavor that has far-reaching implications for computer science, urban planning, digital urban forestry, ecological sciences, and related domains, a team led by Daniel Aliaga, associate professor of computer science, has lever...
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Rosen Center for Advanced Computing staff to present at research computing conference
Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) staff will present posters and papers and lead workshops at the upcoming Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference held in Portland, Ore. from July 23-27, 2023. The PEARC conf...
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Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer helps researchers look at the origins of the universe
A long time ago, before there were galaxies far, far away, there was an explosion of unimaginable proportions. Everything that ever has and ever will exist in the universe was compressed within a single point, and for reasons unknown, that point expl...
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RCAC, College of Agriculture partner to reshape agriculture research
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has partnered with the College of Agriculture to develop cyberinfrastructure that better serves the computational and data management needs of agriculture researchers. The College of Agriculture’s A...
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Anvil REU Student Lands Cybersecurity Role
MaKayla McCartan is an undergraduate student at Purdue University, where she majors in cybersecurity and minors in both sociology and organizational leadership. McCartan was a participant in the 2022 Anvil REU program, and has recently accepted an in...
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RCAC supercomputers help Purdue professor unlock mysteries of mechanics and material chemistry
A Purdue researcher who studies material chemistry is using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) supercomputers to learn more about how materials behave in products like organic electronics and lithium-ion batteries. Kejie Zhao, professor...