Science Highlights
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DiaGrid helps advance biomedical imaging for understanding and treating cancer and other diseases
Purdue’s DiaGrid hub is helping advance a biomedical imaging technique capable of precisely capturing mechanical properties of bodily tissue, which could improve diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer and other diseases. DiaGrid now houses a Web-ba...
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Purdue's new research supercomputer designed to fit a variety of computational needs
Purdue’s latest Community Cluster Program research supercomputer offers faculty and campus units more than just one big community in which to settle their research computations. The new community cluster has neighborhoods, too. Need big memory? There...
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Research Data Depot makes moving video for psychology research easy
Joel Sprunger, a Purdue doctoral student in clinical psychology, had a problem — a whole lot of video to move from Indianapolis to Purdue and to Georgia State University, where he and his collaborators on a research project are looking at the mechani...
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Arif Khan isn’t just using Purdue’s Conte cluster supercomputer and its Intel Xeon Phi accelerators to develop better ways to find a needle in a haystack. He’s making it easier and much faster to find the best needles in a stack of needles. Khan is a...
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ThinLinc lets Purdue researchers access community clusters from almost anywhere
When Purdue Professor Michael Grant found himself in Ohio with nothing but a 4G LTE cellular connection to get back to campus, his research employing Purdue’s community cluster supercomputers did not grind to a halt. Grant fired up a piece of softwar...
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Team of Purdue and Colombian students share a common language - supercomputing
Student supercomputing competitions have taken Kurt Kroeger to Salt Lake City, Leipzig, Germany, and now New Orleans, but they also have him headed for an even more intriguing destination — his future. Kroeger is part of the six-member combined Purdu...
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Purdue, Globus partnership gives researchers an easy way to move big data to and from campus
Purdue doctoral student Archana Tankasala is studying electron interactions in few-electron systems involving 1.5 to 2 million atoms as part of research that could contribute to development of quantum computers exponentially more capable than today’s...
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National Cancer Informatics hub building a community to accelerate cancer research, discovery
In search of a platform to build a collaborative community of cancer informatics researchers, Ishwar Chandramouliswaran came across nanoHub.org, a nanotechnology website which seemed to have everything he and his colleagues wanted. It could do things...
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Hadoop cluster now available for Purdue researchers analyzing big data
Professor William Cleveland and colleagues analyze terabytes of cybersecurity data looking for new ways to identify and combat spammers, data thieves and other Internet bad guys. To do it, Cleveland, Purdue’s Shanti S. Gupta Professor of Statistics,...
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Virtual environments will help engineering students learn how to inspect bridges
Hauling a classroom of engineering students to a busy highway bridge to teach them how to inspect for cracks, corrosion and other damage is a logistical challenge and a bit dicey from a safety perspective. But Robert Connor, associate professor of ci...
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Research computing coffee consultations can benefit would-be, new and experienced users
Dave Jacoby, a developer for Purdue’s Genomics Core Facility, has been a regular at the weekly meetups hosted by ITaP Research Computing (RCAC) staff, in part because ITaP is now filling a portion of the lab’s server and data storage needs. The one-h...
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Round-the-world sound recording project for Earth Day gets help from Envision, ITaP
A project to record and create a library of sounds from around the world on Earth Day Tuesday, April 22, features a mobile application developed by ITaP’s Envision Center to help with the sound collection effort. ITaP also assisted with Web, storage...
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Access to Carter cluster yields sunny forecast for atmospheric science students
Melissa Valentino, headed toward being a weather officer for the Air Force after graduation, knows the importance of computer modeling to her field so she already had incorporated a computer science minor into her educational plan. But an ITaP and fa...
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Data data everywhere, including HUBzero hubs, where it’s ready for researchers to put it to work
Thymic cancer is rare enough that one doctor, or even one hospital, never sees more than a few cases, making it difficult to better understand the stages of the disease and how to treat it. Aggregated internationally, however, there are enough cases...
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Pat Zollner and his students have golden eagles, butterflies, bats, herons, flying squirrels, chipmunks, martens and raccoons wandering around at Purdue but you needn’t worry about the University being overrun. The insects, birds and mammals are safe...
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Geospatial data project will let almost anyone put almost anything on the map
Purdue researchers and ITaP are embarking on a $4.5 million, four-year project to create a powerful Web-based system that will allow researchers worldwide to manage, curate, share, analyze and visualize geospatial data for purposes ranging from predi...
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Given the myriad uses we put lithium-ion batteries to — from the smartphones in our pockets to the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft — how much we don’t know about the batteries' inner workings, especially at the molecular or atomic scales...
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Economic modeling with Carter cluster, DiaGrid offers empirically based guidance for policymakers
For about two decades voluntary pollution abatement programs have shifted in and out of popularity with national — popular in the George W. Bush administration, not so much under President Obama — state and even international policymakers. The progra...
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Carter cluster aids in probing turbulent combustion in engines
Consider two vital processes that go on in your car engine. One is turbulence, a kind of chaotic, random flow involving fuel and air. The other is combustion, a chemical process by which fuel ignites to provide the oomph to move the vehicle forward....
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Particle accelerator, supercomputing are revealing the universe’s original recipe
Quark-gluon plasma, formed at temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the center of the sun, is something you won’t find cooking in any kitchen on Earth. But scientists believe it was the soup of the day over the entire universe for a few microseconds...