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  • Women in HPC sponsors student attendance at SC23 supercomputing conference

    Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group sponsored a woman student to attend the 2023 Supercomputing conference, SC23, which took place in Denver last month. An international conference, SC23 included more than 12,000 attendees from...

  • RCAC, College of Pharmacy partner on AI tool to identify adverse drug effects from social media posts

    Adverse drug effects are thought to be vastly underreported, but a team from Purdue’s College of Pharmacy is working with the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) to use artificial intelligence to change that. RCAC senior research data scientis...

  • Purdue research team uses 100 RCAC GPUs to create urban representations of 330 US cities

    In a multidisciplinary endeavor that has far-reaching implications for computer science, urban planning, digital urban forestry, ecological sciences, and related domains, a team led by Daniel Aliaga, associate professor of computer science, has lever...

  • Introducing CryoSPARC: Anvil’s powerful new software aimed at bioscience research

    The Anvil supercomputer has recently received a full integration of CryoSPARC, a state-of-the-art HPC software solution designed to enable the complete processing of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data. With this new addition to...

  • Anvil used to train cancer researchers in big data analysis

    Purdue’s powerful Anvil supercomputer is being used to train a group of cancer researchers – from graduate students to professors and practicing physicians – on big data management, analysis and visualization skills. Min Zhang, professor of statistic...

  • Anvil accelerates sustainability and photosynthesis research

    Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer is helping a Michigan State research team study processes associated with photosynthesis and plant metabolism, and apply those insights to facilitate more efficient energy conversion to meet today’s sustainability challen...

  • Oct. 4 Cyberinfrastructure Symposium to feature keynote address from AMD’s chief technology officer

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) will host a Cyberinfrastructure Symposium in Fowler Hall on Oct. 4 that will feature a keynote address from Mark Papermaster, AMD’s chief technology officer and executive vice president. The campus commu...

  • RCAC summer interns get real world high-performance computing experience

    Three undergraduate students spent their summer break getting hands-on experience with high-performance computing, thanks to a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program run by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC). The students worked...

  • Anvil ranked 143rd on list of world’s most powerful supercomputers

    Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer has debuted at number 143 on the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, announced this week at the ISC22 supercomputing conference. With a peak processing speed of 5.1 petaFLOPs, Anvil will deliver over...

  • AMD senior vice president headlines inaugural RCAC cyberinfrastructure symposium

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) held its inaugural cyberinfrastructure symposium “Enabling Giant Leaps in Advanced Computing” on October 4. AMD senior vice president Ivo Bolsens delivered the keynote address. Bolsens spoke about AMD’s...

  • Purdue Northwest team using Bell cluster on $7 million DOE project

    A Purdue Northwest team designing a multi-component tool for blast furnace operation in the steelmaking industry is using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Bell computing cluster to refine their models. Tyamo Okosun, a research associa...

  • New community cluster Negishi arriving this fall, space available for purchase now

    Purdue’s newest community cluster supercomputer, known as “Negishi” after the late Nobel Prize laureate and Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry, is optimized for traditional, tightly-coupled science and engineering...

  • Purdue part of new quantum research collaborative

    Led by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), Purdue has joined as a founding partner in the new Quantum Collaborative launched by Arizona State University. The Quantum Collaborative is a major 21st century initiative poised to profoundly im...

  • Rosen Center for Advanced Computing staff to present at research computing conference

    Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) staff will present posters and papers about topics such as Purdue’s powerful new Anvil supercomputer, biocontainers and workforce development, lead a tutorial about Anvil’s interactive computing capabilities...

  • Anvil accelerates genome sequencing for studying psychiatric disorders

    Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer has helped one research team better understand how DNA changes relate to psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder. Richard Wilton, an associate research scientist at Johns Hopkins Uni...

  • RCAC wins best paper, poster awards at research computing conference

    Several Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) staff members received awards for their posters and papers at the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference held last week. The paper “Understanding Factors that Influ...

  • RCAC awarded $500,000 grant for composable and HPC workflow storage

    Lead computational scientist Erik Gough is the PI on a $500,000 NSF award that establishes a model for Software Defined Storage as a Service (STaaS) at the campus level, offering unified access to and on-demand provisioning of block, object and files...

  • Envision Center developing 3D weather visualization technology to assist small aircraft pilots

    New technology developed by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Envision Center aims to make aviation safer by helping pilots avoid flying into adverse weather. In collaboration with FlightProfiler, the Envision Center has created a geospatial...

  • Purdue to have major presence at international supercomputing conference

    Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) will once again have a booth at this year’s SC22 Supercomputing conference, happening in Dallas, Texas from Nov. 13-18. Gerhard Klimeck, professor of electrical and computer engineering and long-ti...

  • Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer accelerating scientific research progress

    One year into its operations, Purdue’s powerful Anvil supercomputer has already enabled groundbreaking research in fields such as drug discovery, astrophysics and sustainability research. Anvil, which is funded by a $22 million grant from the Nationa...