Announcements
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Early faculty users praise new Conte community cluster, now open to campus researchers
Purdue Professor Charles Bouman says his lab’s move to powerful supercomputers like Purdue’s new Conte community cluster is driven by need. That need prompted Bouman’s lab to be an active tester of the Conte cluster this fall, as ITaP Research Comput...
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Effective Use of Research Storage
On Thursday, Oct 10, a BlueArc scratch fileserver suffered a filesystem failure that resulted in data loss on several scratch filesystems. In light of this event, we'd like to take this opportunity to remind all of our cluster users of the most effec...
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Video shows off Carter cluster's new home
On the outside that may look like a shipping container deposited behind a security fence at the Purdue power plant, but it’s what’s inside that counts. Inside, it is the new high-tech home of the Carter community cluster. ITaP has moved the Carter cl...
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Intel Xeon Phi: Learning Resources
Introductory Documentation Conte Users' Guide Introduction to Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor: covers architecture, execution models, optimization, vectorization, MKL, debugging, and performance analysis in separate sections Intel Xeon Phi Programmin...
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New Scholar cluster brings supercomputing to Purdue classrooms
A portion of the Carter community cluster, which faculty and their students use for computationally demanding research, is now available to give Purdue students in undergraduate courses introductory experience with high-performance computing. Dubbed...
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Carter cluster moves to state-of-the-art modular computer center
On the outside that may look like a shipping container deposited behind a security fence at the Purdue power plant, but it’s what’s inside that counts. Inside, it is the new high-tech home of Purdue’s powerful Carter supercomputer. ITaP has moved the...
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Purdue researchers will have nation's fastest campus supercomputer—again
The next Community Cluster Program supercomputer, which ITaP is readying for use by faculty later this year, already has tested as the most powerful system for use by researchers on a single university campus in the country and as one of the top supe...
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Purdue student supercomputing team headed for competition in Germany
Aerospace engineering major Trevor Johnson has a career designing aircraft in mind and that means supercomputing to figure out how a design affects important performance factors, like the way air flows over an aircraft’s body. The senior from Orion,...
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Research computing coffee consultations offer benefits for would-be, new and experienced users
Graduate student Brett Lahner started attending the weekly, one-hour informal meetups hosted by ITaP Research Computing (RCAC) staff to help him with the bioinformatics work he’s begun in Professor Brian Dilkes plant genetics lab. “The clusters seem...
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New class will have students building, running their own supercomputer
When his computer architecture class gets to solving bottlenecks various applications tend to hit, Ethan Madden figures he will be in familiar territory. After all, the junior in computer science from Newburgh spent most of the semester figuring out...
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Students gain new perspectives on supercomputing, breakfast, mattresses
As a student worker helping maintain Purdue’s research supercomputers, Andrew Huff knows something about how University faculty researchers use the machines, but he gained a broader perspective on the high-performance computing field this week. Super...
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Purdue student supercomputing team has had its coffee and is off and running
Tyler Reid started work Monday in the wee hours of the morning, benchmarking the student-run supercomputer being operated by six Purdue undergraduates in an international competition this week. But while Reid pushed the machine to its limits, all the...
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Trinity RNAseq assembly software running on RCAC Clusters
Trinity RNAseq assembly on the RCAC Clusters Trinity on the RCAC clusters. Trinity is a software package for reconstructing genetic sequences from RNA transcripts. It runs well on RCAC cluster nodes, with some consideration for the specific challenge...
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Purdue highlighting versatile HUBzero technology and more at international supercomputing conference
For researchers like Nick Marra, who’s studying genes in evolutionary adaptation, using BLAST, the standard software for DNA and other biological sequence searches, is now easier and faster with BLASTer, a Web-based version of BLAST sporting a friend...
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This Purdue team is super — at supercomputing
Whether it’s developing new cancer treatments or tracking down the particles that make up the universe, not to mention powering Amazon or iTunes, Nick Molo knows high-performance computing is an essential tool. So the Purdue junior in computer engine...
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New R tool with access to thousands of processors available to Purdue researchers
A new Web-based R tool now available to Purdue faculty and their students through an accessible graphical interface and Purdue’s DiaGrid distributed computing system will be demonstrated in a November presentation by ITaP research computing staff. Th...
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BLASTer tool upgraded on DiaGrid Hub: BLASTer 1.2 released
The DiaGrid team is pleased to announce version 1.2 of the BLASTer bioinformatics tool. Version 1.2 adds several features, including better disk space utilization and the ability to sort runs by any field. BLASTer 1.2 is available for immediate use o...
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New HUBzero version has extensive research team coordination, collaboration features
The latest version of HUBzero, an open source “cyberinfrastructure in a box,” with new capability to create collaborative “project” areas within a hub, federated identity management, email integration, design improvements, and dozens of other new fea...
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The DiaGrid Hub (https://web.archive.org/web/20100301000000*/http://www.dia-grid.org) has been upgraded, adding support for new features and improving the user experience. DiaGrid Hub now supports logging in with a Purdue Career Account. DiaGrid us...
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Batch system and module changes on RCAC systems
Beginning with the new Carter cluster, RCAC users will note some differences in the PBS batch system and the module names available for use. This article aims to outline the reasons for these changes and describe some of the details. Why has ITaP cha...