Science Highlights
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Purdue sponsors IndySCC competition at the Supercomputing conference
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently donated hardware infrastructure, including an entire cluster of nodes of the recently retired Rice cluster, and provided staff support to a supercomputing competition for students just get...
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Purdue, IU team up for student supercomputing competition
For the first time ever, Purdue students have teamed up with their counterparts at Indiana University to showcase their supercomputer building skills, and work hands-on with high performance computing (HPC) and scientific computing. The joint Purdue-...
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Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer accelerating scientific research progress
One year into its operations, Purdue’s powerful Anvil supercomputer has already enabled groundbreaking research in fields such as drug discovery, astrophysics and sustainability research. Anvil, which is funded by a $22 million grant from the Nationa...
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Purdue to have major presence at international supercomputing conference
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) will once again have a booth at this year’s SC22 Supercomputing conference, happening in Dallas, Texas from Nov. 13-18. Gerhard Klimeck, professor of electrical and computer engineering and long-ti...
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RCAC awarded $500,000 grant for composable and HPC workflow storage
Lead computational scientist Erik Gough is the PI on a $500,000 NSF award that establishes a model for Software Defined Storage as a Service (STaaS) at the campus level, offering unified access to and on-demand provisioning of block, object and files...
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Purdue part of new quantum research collaborative
Led by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), Purdue has joined as a founding partner in the new Quantum Collaborative launched by Arizona State University. The Quantum Collaborative is a major 21st century initiative poised to profoundly im...
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New community cluster Negishi arriving this fall, space available for purchase now
Purdue’s newest community cluster supercomputer, known as “Negishi” after the late Nobel Prize laureate and Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry, is optimized for traditional, tightly-coupled science and engineering...
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Purdue Northwest team using Bell cluster on $7 million DOE project
A Purdue Northwest team designing a multi-component tool for blast furnace operation in the steelmaking industry is using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Bell computing cluster to refine their models. Tyamo Okosun, a research associa...
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AMD senior vice president headlines inaugural RCAC cyberinfrastructure symposium
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) held its inaugural cyberinfrastructure symposium “Enabling Giant Leaps in Advanced Computing” on October 4. AMD senior vice president Ivo Bolsens delivered the keynote address. Bolsens spoke about AMD’s...
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RCAC summer interns get real world high-performance computing experience
Three undergraduate students spent their summer break getting hands-on experience with high-performance computing, thanks to a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program run by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC). The students worked...
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Oct. 4 Cyberinfrastructure Symposium to feature keynote address from AMD’s chief technology officer
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) will host a Cyberinfrastructure Symposium in Fowler Hall on Oct. 4 that will feature a keynote address from Mark Papermaster, AMD’s chief technology officer and executive vice president. The campus commu...
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Anvil accelerates sustainability and photosynthesis research
Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer is helping a Michigan State research team study processes associated with photosynthesis and plant metabolism, and apply those insights to facilitate more efficient energy conversion to meet today’s sustainability challen...
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Anvil used to train cancer researchers in big data analysis
Purdue’s powerful Anvil supercomputer is being used to train a group of cancer researchers – from graduate students to professors and practicing physicians – on big data management, analysis and visualization skills. Min Zhang, professor of statistic...
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Envision Center developing 3D weather visualization technology to assist small aircraft pilots
New technology developed by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Envision Center aims to make aviation safer by helping pilots avoid flying into adverse weather. In collaboration with FlightProfiler, the Envision Center has created a geospatial...
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RCAC wins best paper, poster awards at research computing conference
Several Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) staff members received awards for their posters and papers at the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference held last week. The paper “Understanding Factors that Influ...
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Anvil accelerates genome sequencing for studying psychiatric disorders
Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer has helped one research team better understand how DNA changes relate to psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder. Richard Wilton, an associate research scientist at Johns Hopkins Uni...
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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 about topics such as Purdue’s powerful new Anvil supercomputer, biocontainers and workforce development, lead a tutorial about Anvil’s interactive computing capabilities...
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Anvil ranked 143rd on list of world’s most powerful supercomputers
Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer has debuted at number 143 on the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, announced this week at the ISC22 supercomputing conference. With a peak processing speed of 5.1 petaFLOPs, Anvil will deliver over...
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Research Computing develops software container tools for bioinformatics research
Purdue Research Computing now offers biocontainers – software containers designed for Purdue’s community clusters that contain more than 400 commonly used bioinformatics tools. Biocontainers have the advantage of keeping things organized by isolating...
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Professor developing numerical tools for astrophysical modeling with the help of Anvil supercomputer
Purdue’s powerful new Anvil supercomputer is helping unlock the secrets of space weather. Asif ud-Doula, an associate professor of physics at Penn State Scranton, develops numerical tools to model the stellar winds of massive stars. He uses three-dim...