Science Highlights
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Internships in ITaP Research Computing’s Scientific Solutions Group boost student success
As an undergraduate in computer science, Paul Steele never expected to be working with genomic data, but he found himself doing just that during an internship with ITaP Research Computing. Steele, who graduated from Purdue earlier this year, worked w...
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Community clusters drive food science research, education at Purdue
Stephen Lindemann learned cutting-edge computational biology techniques as a Purdue undergraduate and honed those skills in his graduate and postdoctoral research. Now that he’s back on campus as an assistant professor of Food Science and Nutrition S...
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Two ITaP Research Computing teams win awards at national conference
Two posters submitted by teams from ITaP Research Computing were honored with awards at the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference earlier this month. Wei-Kang Hsu, a graduate student in electrical and computer engi...
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ITaP staff presenting at advanced research computing conference
When the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference convenes in New Orleans next week, Purdue will be all over the agenda. ITaP Research Computing staff will give presentations and lead interactive workshops about a var...
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When their teachers ask what they did this summer, the students in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute’s Turned Onto Technology and Leadership (TOTAL) camp will have a good answer – they spent a week learning about geospatial data with ITaP Research Com...
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New resource available for GPU-accelerated research computing
A new computing resource is available for Purdue researchers running applications that can take advantage of graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerators. The system, known as Halstead-GPU, is a newly GPU-equipped portion of Halstead, Purdue’s newest...
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Team of Purdue, Northeastern students to compete at International Supercomputing Conference
For the members of Purdue’s student supercomputing team, parallel programming and administering high-performance computing systems aren’t just concepts they’ve learned about in class – they’re techniques the students have put into practice building t...
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REED system available for faculty with contracts that mandate strict IT controls
A new system known as the Research Environment for Encumbered Data (REED) provides a solution for an increasing number of Purdue researchers with government contracts that require adherence to a set of IT security controls a researcher must follow un...
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Two in Research Computing receive gender diversity awards
ITaP’s Claire Stirm, a science gateway manager for HUBzero, and Jieyu Gao, an Emerging IT Leader working for ITaP Research Computing’s research services and support team, were among the six Gender Diversity Award winners recently announced by higher...
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New version of ITaP's Scholar cluster powers meteorology classes
Learning scientific computing for the first time can be challenging enough, without the additional hurdles of installing and configuring the necessary software. Thanks to the updated, interactive features of Purdue’s Scholar cluster, those hurdles ha...
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Envision Center lets moon walker Buzz Aldrin explore Mars without even leaving Earth
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, has now explored Mars too – using a virtual reality simulation developed by ITaP’s Envision Center in partnership with a Purdue aeronautics and astronautics class. “Why do you need to go to Mars when y...
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Retired Carter cluster was nation’s fastest campus supercomputer
Purdue’s recently retired Carter community cluster will be remembered as a powerful supercomputer that could handle computationally-intensive applications much faster than its predecessors – qualities that made it perfectly suited to Ashlie Martini’s...
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Thanks to Purdue professor Gaurav Chopra, the next major breakthrough in the fight against cancer or Alzheimer’s may come from a teenager playing a video game. Driven by a goal of engaging the public in scientific discovery, Chopra, an assistant prof...
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Purdue’s community cluster supercomputers propel Hyperloop team’s success
Hurtling through a depressurized tube at a speed of 750 miles per hour may sound like science fiction, but – thanks to an idea by billionaire SpaceX founder Elon Musk and implementation by hard-working and creative engineering students at Purdue – it...
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Colombian researchers are helping design new drugs for treating HIV using a supercomputer built in a partnership between the Universidad EAFIT in Medellin and ITaP Research Computing. Besides trying to identify likely drug targets for new HIV treatme...
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Halstead cluster is aeronautics professor’s 21st century wind tunnel
Jonathan Poggie's high-speed fluid mechanics research aims to make supersonic flight more efficient, but he doesn't need a physical wind tunnel to test his theories – because he has access to supercomputers like Purdue’s Halstead cluster. Poggie, an...
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Professor succeeds in protein modeling competitions using Purdue’s community clusters
The basketball court isn’t the only place that Purdue has been winning lately. Using the Carter and Rice community cluster supercomputers operated by ITaP, Professor Daisuke Kihara and his team have proven themselves among the best in the world at mo...
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Envision Center projects showcased for President Daniels
Purdue President Mitch Daniels’ job certainly offers diverse experiences, like stepping inside the human body and docking drug molecules to proteins. That’s one thing President Daniels experienced when he visited ITaP’s Envision Center on Feb. 1 for...
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Professor teaches big data analysis using new, interactive version of ITaP’s Scholar cluster
You might not expect a 7:30 a.m. class to be lively and well-attended, but Mark Daniel Ward packed students into his classroom at that hour last semester. The subject? Techniques for analyzing big data through a series of projects using Purdue’s Scho...
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Purdue students gain hands-on experience with virtual reality at Envision Center
Purdue student employees at ITaP’s Envision Center are working with cutting-edge technology to build virtual reality simulations and data visualization tools for research and education. Using the Microsoft HoloLens – a mixed-reality headset that is n...