Announcements
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Rendering environment accesses huge pool of resources
Rendering the frames in a complex animation can tie up a work station, or a whole lab of them in a computer graphics class setting, for literally days or weeks, says Purdue Professor Gary Bertoline. But if the load could be shared among hundreds, eve...
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Students take top honors at TeraGrid conference
Sanjiv Kumar is something of a fortune teller, but he and his colleagues don’t use a crystal ball to peer into the future of water systems like the St. Joseph River Watershed in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. Instead, they use supercomputers...
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Summer research interns get early look at graduate student life
When Purdue Terrestrial Observatory Director Gilbert Rochon gave a presentation recently about high tech mapping of Indiana’s flooding this summer, employing satellite imagery from the observatory, Jean Pierre Antelo and Kaiem Frink were there with h...
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Purdue supercomputer unboxed and built by lunchtime
Staff members at Purdue University had hoped to build the Big Ten’s largest campus supercomputer in just a day on Monday, May 5. But it didn’t take that long — they were done by lunch. Read more at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2008a/080505McCartneyBu...
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Purdue to install Big Ten's biggest campus computer in just a day
The largest supercomputer on a Big Ten campus will be installed at Purdue in a single-day, electronic "barn-raising." More than 200 employees will gather May 5 to help build the massive machine, which will be about the size of a semitrailer...
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New specialization will focus on supercomputing
Purdue University is developing courses that will focus on high performance computing, making it one of a few universities nationwide to offer such curriculum. The specialization will be offered in the Department of Computer and Information Technolog...
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Important news for Radon/Recycled cluster users
The Radon/Recycled Linux cluster was upgraded significantly during RCAC's August 15-17 maintenance window. Changes resulting from this upgrade include the following: The operating system on radon.rcac.purdue.edu and the cluster's compute nodes was u...
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Purdue makes distributed rendering available at SIGGRAPH 2007 via TeraGrid
Academic animators and researchers doing scientific visualizations have a new resource that will allow them to render their 3-D animations in a fraction of the time it can take on a single computer. Attendees of the 2007 ACM SIGGRAPH conference in Sa...
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Atkins to Speak at TeraGrid '07
Speakers, Science Gateways and Tutorials -- Much in store for attendees at TeraGrid ’07! CHICAGO — The second annual TeraGrid conference, being held June 4-8 in Madison, Wisconsin, will provide the scientific community with opportunities for knowledg...
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Purdue offers Condor resources to TeraGrid community
Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing has become the largest provider of high-throughput computing cycles on the National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid. Carol X. Song, senior research scientist in the Rosen Center and principal inve...
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TeraGrid '07 Conference Registration Now Open!!
Conference Registration is Open! Registration is open for the second annual TeraGrid conference -- "TeraGrid '07: Broadening Participation in TeraGrid.” Thank you to everyone who submitted papers for TG07! The paper submission process is now clo...
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Purdue teams up with California university to raise the bar in grid computing
Purdue University researchers have reached new milestones in grid interoperability through the successful integration of two Open Science Grid (OSG) sites running a scientific application over the National Science Foundation TeraGrid network. Read mo...
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Envision Center wins honors from Campus Technology magazine
Purdue's Envision Center for Data Perceptualization was chosen by Campus Technology magazine as one of the winners of its Campus Technology Innovators 2006 competition. Purdue won in the category of "Virtual and Immersive Learning". The awa...
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Blue Gene Consortium Day at IBM's Watson Research Center
Blue Gene Watson (BGW) Consortium Day provides an opportunity for members of the Consortium to run applications or computer science projects on IBM's 20 rack, 100 Tflop BG system. The next opportunity is March 29-30, 2006. Information can be found on...
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$5 million for supercomputer grid in northwest Indiana
The new year will usher in a new era for supercomputing at Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame. The institutions are partnering to create a sophisticated, high-performance computer grid – to be operational in January – that is expected...
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Purdue gets 5.3 million for TeraGrid operation, management, and user support
Purdue University's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing will receive $5.3 million as part of a National Science Foundation five-year, $150 million award to operate and enhance the Extensible Terascale Facility — also called TeraGrid. TeraGrid, which...
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SDSC Announcing Data Allocations
SDSC is pleased to announce an expansion in services, resources and capabilities provided to scientific researchers. For nearly 20 years, SDSC has made available a wide range of computational resources. However, in recent years, the rate of data gene...
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RCAC Opens up Opportunistic Access to 11 TFlops for TeraGrid Users
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) at Purdue University has opened up opportunistic access to 11 teraflops of computing power to the TeraGrid community. Based on a new model known as community clusters developed by researchers at RCAC, th...
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Purdue Researchers Are Redefining How Information is Shared
Purdue Researchers are redefining how information is shared between scientists, professors, and students. Grid computing is more than a concept.
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Purdue among NSF Sites Providing 34 Million Hours of Supercomputing Time to Scientists
Every three months, a committee of computational scientists from across the country reviews requests for, and awards time at, NSF-supported supercomputing centers. At its recent meeting, 34 million hours of computing time were awarded to 90 projects....