Announcements
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Storage upgrade will mean faster, more reliable data access for Purdue researchers
An upgrade of the software underlying the data storage system used by many Purdue researchers will provide faculty and their students quicker, more robust and more secure access to their data. ITaP and its Rosen Center for Advanced Computing will be...
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New Hansen research supercomputer activated, capacity still available to faculty
“Contagion” is just a hit movie but its premise – a deadly disease spread around the world by airline passengers – is no fiction, as recent experience with SARS and the H1N1 flu virus illustrate. That’s one reason mechanical engineering Professor Qin...
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Hansen Cluster is in Production
As of 10:00 AM, September 15, 2011, the Hansen Community cluster has gone into production. Hansen is comprised of 200 Dell computer nodes, with four 12-core AMD Opteron 6176 processors (48 cores per node), and is interconnected with RDMA-enabled 10Gb...
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New website gives community cluster users a window to their work
A few clicks on a graph, a table and a couple pull-down menus in a Web form and Kevin Colby knows this particular piece of computational research used 800 processors on 100 different machines, how long it took — and a lot more. A new website created...
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ITaP still taking faculty orders for new research supercomputing cluster
Faculty orders for the new Hansen Community Cluster research supercomputer are still being taken by ITaP, which plans to have the new system operating in September. The Hansen cluster features Dell compute nodes with four 12-core AMD Opteron 6176 pro...
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Completed MATH upgrades will allow research computing expansion
Major ITaP research computing systems, including the Rossmann, Coates, Moffett and Radon clusters, are back on line following a project to upgrade the power and cooling systems for the data center in the Mathematical Sciences Building. The upgrade pr...
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Fortress archive system being upgraded to HPSS
Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) is upgrading the research computing archival storage system Fortress. Currently based upon EMC's DiskXtender (DXUL), Fortress is being upgraded to new, more powerful software: the High Performance Storage Syste...
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Campus Technology highlights HUBzero and Signals as top innovations for 2011
Campus Technology Magazine’s August edition is highlighting two Purdue-developed technologies as top innovations for 2011. HUBzero is a Web-based platform allowing researchers to collaborate using computational models to study complex problems. Signa...
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Purdue research computing resources for faculty among best in the nation
To gauge whether specific genes may play roles in diseases, Purdue statistics Professor Hyonho Chun often repeats her calculations thousands of times for each of thousands of genes. That makes for a lot of heavyweight computation and it helps to have...
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Purdue to help bring advanced digital resources, services and expertise to nation’s researchers
Purdue is partnering with 16 institutions to build the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated digital resources and digital services for research in the world. S...
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ITaP still taking orders for new research supercomputing cluster
Orders for the new Hansen Community Cluster are still being taken by ITaP, which plans to build the new supercomputer later this summer and have it operating in September. The Hansen cluster will feature Dell compute nodes with four 12-core AMD Opter...
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Campus Technology picks HUBzero and Signals as top innovations for 2011
Campus Technology Magazine is recognizing Purdue as a campus technology innovator for HUBzero, a Web-based platform allowing researchers to collaborate using computational models to study complex problems and Signals, an early warning system that hel...
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ITaP research computing begins using FootPrints ticketing system
ITaP’s research computing unit the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing is now using Numara FootPrints to manage user requests and problems, as well as for incident reports, changes and service-level management. Research computing users will still con...
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Latest release makes HUBzero computing, collaboration software more social
HUBzero’s latest open source release enhances the platform for creating powerful websites supporting computation, research, education and collaboration in science, engineering and almost any other field with a heavy dose of new social networking feat...
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Coates scratch directory changes on 2/22 and 3/31
The default scratch directory location for the Coates Linux cluster has changed from the BlueArc storage servers to the Lustre storage system installed last summer. Starting March 31st, your BlueArc scratch directory will be read-only from Coates nod...
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Future athletic rivals, Nebraska and Purdue are teammates in research computing
Nebraska may not feel like an official member of the Big Ten Conference until football season begins this fall, but Purdue and its future conference rival already are models of good sportsmanship in the field of research computing. The University of...
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ITaP surveying faculty and staff about research computing needs and new supercomputer
ITaP is planning a new community cluster supercomputer to be built in 2011 and gathering information about what Purdue faculty and staff may need either as a part of the new system or in computers for departmental or individual use. The combined purc...
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ITaP and Purdue Calumet partnership gives Calumet campus first large-scale supercomputer
At Purdue University Calumet, Chenn Qian Zhou's engineering students work on real-world problems from energy companies, the steel industry, refineries and vehicle parts manufacturers, among others, businesses in Indiana, nationally and internationall...
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Research and education technologies conference presentations now available online
Video of and PowerPoint slides from presentations at Purdue CI Days 2010—a two-day event focused on technology to enhance research, teaching and program funding—are now available online. The presentations, which covered topics ranging from supercompu...
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ITaP activates new research supercomputing cluster, space still available
That rocket engines and pipe organs have something in common may not seem intuitive, but both blow acoustic waves through a tube. This can result in beautiful music or, in the case of an engine, operating inefficiencies, even catastrophe. Charles Mer...