Science Highlights
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Professor models novel coronavirus proteins with the help of ITaP supercomputers
Daisuke Kihara, a professor of biological sciences and computer science, has used Purdue’s supercomputers to develop computational models of the proteins in the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that may prove useful for the development of drugs to treat...
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ITaP-led team awarded NSF grant to create composable campus cloud ecosystem for research
A team comprised of technical experts from ITaP Research Computing and computational faculty from across campus has been awarded a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $392,205 (NSF award number #2018926) to develop a...
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New community cluster Bell arriving this year, space available for purchase now
Purdue’s newest community cluster supercomputer will be twice as fast as the retired Conte cluster, which was the nation’s fastest campus supercomputer at the time it was built just seven years ago. The new cluster, known as “Bell” after Purdue nursi...
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Can video games save the honeybee?
While many of us know that bees and other insects face a precarious future, few people have concrete plans to do anything about it. A Purdue professor is hoping to change that by using virtual learning modules, developed in collaboration with ITaP’s...
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College of Engineering, ITaP Research Computing team studies supercomputer reliability
Researchers running demanding computations, especially for projects like infectious disease modeling that need to be re-run frequently as new data becomes available, rely on supercomputers to run efficiently with as few failures of the software as po...
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Envision Center available to collaborate with faculty on virtual instruction
As Purdue faculty continue teaching remotely, ITaP’s Envision Center can provide a way to deliver the kinds of hands-on, laboratory-based instruction students typically can’t get through online lectures. The Envision Center, which celebrated its fift...
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Purdue professor studies household financial decisions with the help of ITaP data analysis system
Whether your house has recently gained or lost value could predict how likely you are to vote in the next election. That’s the conclusion of recent research from Ben McCartney, an assistant professor of finance who studies household finance and real...
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In the coming weeks, each community cluster supercomputer operated by ITaP Research Computing will transition to Slurm, a new batch job scheduling system. Slurm is more scalable on large systems such as the community clusters than the current PBS-bas...
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Purdue professor pieces together how massive stars explode using virtual reality
When giant stars in the Milky Way galaxy explode, they leave behind a trail of dust and gas that astronomers on Earth can observe for many thousands of years. In partnership with ITaP’s Envision Center, Dan Milisavljevic, an assistant professor of ph...
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Envision Center VR app teaches construction workers not to fall
ITaP’s Envision Center has publicly released a virtual reality application designed to teach construction workers how to avoid falls, as well as the application’s underlying source code. The application, developed in collaboration with James Jenkins,...
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Purdue team chosen to compete in international supercomputing competition
When the top undergraduate student supercomputing teams convene in Denver, Colo. later this month, Purdue will again be one of just 16 teams in the competition. Claudia Li, a junior in neurobiology, is a veteran of the all-women Purdue squad that com...
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Weber cluster available for high-performance computing with controlled research
Purdue’s new Weber cluster, operated by ITaP, gives faculty doing controlled unclassified research a powerful computational resource on campus. Weber is designed for research subject to export control regulations, such as EAR or ITAR, or that require...
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Purdue faculty working in machine learning, artificial intelligence and other fields that are optimized for computations run on graphics processing units (GPUs) have a powerful new resource in Gilbreth, Purdue’s newest community cluster research supe...
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The next time you close your computer’s lid and put it to sleep, you could instead be putting it to work on research projects in computational nanotechnology. That’s the idea behind nanoHUB@Home, the latest addition to the Berkeley Open Infrastructur...
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Purdue team wins best student paper award at national research computing conference
A team of students who deployed an intrusion detection system on Purdue’s research network was awarded the Best Student Paper in the “Facilitation of Advanced Research Computing” track at the recent Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Comput...
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Scholar cluster now features GPUs, increased storage
Purdue students using Scholar, a cluster supercomputer ITaP makes available for classroom use, can now use GPUs to study subjects such as machine learning, cryogenic electron microscopy and data science. Nvidia sponsored Purdue’s most recent student...
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Brown supercomputer lifespan extended, space still available for purchase
ITaP Research Computing recently announced that the Brown community cluster supercomputer will remain in service through 2023, providing researchers with an additional year of value beyond the clusters’ typical five-year lifespan. “With the end of Mo...
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Purdue’s Box research storage service a key component of Eli Lilly collaboration
Researchers participating in Purdue’s five-year, $52 million life sciences collaboration with Eli Lilly & Co. are relying on Purdue’s instance of Box.com to help securely store and share their regulated health data. The Lilly collaboration was a...
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The Envision Center’s 15th anniversary is a chance to look back on the center’s accomplishments so far, while celebrating its next giant leap forward. At a recent public open house in celebration of the center’s birthday, technical director George Ta...
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Image processing software developed by ITaP staff engineer still used widely 30 years later
Software developed by an ITaP engineer has put geospatial data analysis in the hands of researchers and students for a generation now. MultiSpec was developed in 1988 by ITaP’s Larry Biehl, who was then at the Laboratory of Applications in Remote Sen...