Science Highlights
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RCAC hosts in-person StreamCI workshop
Last month, the StreamCI project team hosted an in-person StreamCI Spring Workshop. The workshop brought together researchers, research software engineers (RSEs), and cyberinfrastructure partners to explore how StreamCI can accelerate research, enabl...
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Purdue researcher leverages AI in the fight against cancer
Scientists from the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research (PICR) are leveraging the world-class high-performance computing (HPC) resources provided by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) to conduct bioinformatics research on cancer biology....
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RCAC makes an impact at student hackathons
Throughout the Spring 2026 semester, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) outreach and engagement team worked hard to promote high-performance computing to campus researchers, reach new audiences outside of Purdue, and directly support th...
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New Anvil Object Storage now available to researchers
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce the arrival of Anvil Object Storage, the newest storage service for Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer. Anvil Object Storage is designed to support large-scale, data-intensive research a...
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Purdue student attends GHC 25 with WHPC Scholarship
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group offers scholarships to support students who wish to travel to major computing conferences. Last fall, the group sponsored a graduate student to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2025,...
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Anvil used to advance AI 3D object detection
Researchers from the University of Virginia used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to advance the field of 3D computer vision by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) methods. Their work, which has led to the production of numerous publications and conf...
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Purdue co-hosts regional NSF AI workshop
Earlier this year, Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) hosted an artificial intelligence (AI) workshop for researchers throughout the Midwest. Titled “AI for All: Practical and Accessible AI for Research and Education,” this workshop...
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CollabXR released as Open Source on GitHub
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce that the Envision Center’s CollabXR platform has been released as an open source software, available now on GitHub. By making CollabXR open-source, the Envision Center is ushe...
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CI-XP student gains real-world HPC experience while boosting RCAC systems
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) core mission is to provide researchers access to leading-edge computational and data storage systems as well as expertise in a broad range of high-performance computing (HPC) activities. As a major cen...
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RCAC hosts three K-12 summer camps focused on STEM
The arrival of summer on Purdue’s campus marks a season of exchange: a mass exodus of college students makes way for an influx of K-12 summer campers. For the past two years, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has been actively involved i...
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Purdue enables AI- and data- cyberinfrastructure, partners in multiple newly awarded NSF projects
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has recently secured funding as a partner on multiple National Science Foundation (NSF) grants. The grants come from the Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) program, and RCAC is a partner on...
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RCAC makes an impact at PEARC26
Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) participated in the ACM Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) 26 conference. The international conference, hosted in Minneapolis, MN, from July 26-30, brought tog...
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CI Symposium Poster Session winner presents research at major conference
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group offers scholarships to support students who wish to travel to major computing conferences. Last fall, the group offered a sponsorship to the winner of the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s...