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  • RCAC staff to present at national research computing conference next week

    Staff members from the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) will present papers, lead workshops and participate in panels at the upcoming Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference, themed: “The Power of Collabora...

  • RCAC Student Spotlight: David Piedra

    Name: David Piedra Year: Junior Major: Cybersecurity Position: Research Support Developer Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is David and I’m a Research Support Developer! What are some of your main inte...

  • Anvil AI now available to ACCESS researchers

    Researchers nationwide can now request access to the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) new national artificial intelligence (AI) resource, Anvil AI. Purdue University's powerful national HPC-resource, the Anvil supercomputer, recently rece...

  • RCAC staff win I-GUIDE Spatial AI Challenge

    Two staff members from the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently took first place in the I-GUIDE Spatial AI (Artificial Intelligence) Challenge 2024–25. Dr. Elham Barezi, the Lead AI Research Scientist, and Dr. Jungha Woo, a Lead Softwa...

  • Envision Center virtual labs allow chemistry students to conduct experiments from anywhere

    Laboratory science is not typically thought of as a field that’s conducive to remote work – but that’s changing, thanks to a partnership between the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Envision Center and the Purdue Department of Chemistry t...

  • Purdue professor leverages community clusters to analyze stresses on city infrastructure and better predict problems before they happen

    A Purdue professor who uses data analysis to study city infrastructure such as roads, buildings, sewer pipelines and nuclear reactors and predict stresses before they happen, avoiding infrastructure failures, is using RCAC’s Gilbreth community cluste...

  • Purdue to host MATLAB Parallel Computing Workshop

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce a special two-session workshop titled “Parallel Computing with MATLAB.” MathWorks, the developer of MATLAB, is leading the workshop, which will take place at Purdue University on F...

  • RCAC Student Spotlight : Vlad Bondarenco

    Name: Vlad Bondarenco Year: Freshman Major: Aerospace Engineering Position: Envision Center Programmer Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Vlad and I’m an Envision Center programmer! What are some of y...

  • Anvil and AI used to solve for best taxation strategies

    A researcher from the University of Nebraska-Omaha used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to develop a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique that can derive optimal taxation strategies for governments. This new method leveraged Anvil’s advanced GPUs...

  • Anvil AI hardware has arrived

    Purdue University’s powerful supercomputer, Anvil, recently received a major upgrade, thanks to funding provided by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) NAIRR Pilot Program. The new expansion has been installed and is now ready for use. With this...

  • RCAC to be official sponsor of BoilerMake XII

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce their role as an official sponsor of the upcoming BoilerMake XII. BoilerMake is Purdue University’s premier hackathon, inviting undergraduate students from across the nation to joi...

  • RCAC Student Spotlight: Nikitha Sivasankaravel

    Name: Nikitha Sivasankaravel Year: Junior Major: Psychological Sciences Position: Student Communications Liaison/Student Writer Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Nikitha Sivasankaravel, and I’m the St...

  • Gautschi Community Cluster ranks high in international benchmark competitions

    Gautschi, Purdue University’s most powerful supercomputer, was recently ranked among the top high-performance computing (HPC) systems on two separate, international benchmarks. The community cluster ranked 20th on the IO500 benchmark in the “10 Node...

  • Researcher uses Anvil to improve wind farm power prediction

    A researcher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to help create more accurate Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models for offshore wind farms. Better model predictions can lead to a slew of benefit...

  • RCAC Lecture Series: Unveiling the Mystery of Deep Learning: Past, Present, and Future

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce an upcoming short course, “Unveiling the Mystery of Deep Learning: Past, Present, and Future.” This course is designed to provide those who utilize artificial intelligence (AI) too...

  • Anvil AI now available for allocations through NAIRR

    Researchers nationwide can now request access to the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) new national artificial intelligence (AI) resource, Anvil AI. Purdue University's powerful national HPC-resource, the Anvil supercomputer, recently rece...

  • RCAC Student Spotlight: Samuel Gomez

    Name: Samuel Gomez Year: Senior Major: Data Analytics, Technologies, and Applications Position: Research Solutions Engineering Student Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Samuel Gomez, and I’m a Data Ana...

  • Annual Review: RCAC support for life sciences in 2025

    Throughout the past year, the team at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has been dedicated to expanding the training and cyberinfrastructure available for life sciences research at Purdue. The goal of these new initiatives is to build a...

  • Bell powers notable studies of seismology, volcano dynamics

    A Purdue professor is using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s powerful Bell supercomputer for seismic imaging and to better understand the lithosphere, the outermost layer of the Earth, and how earthquakes and volcanoes occur. Xiaotao...

  • Gautschi supercomputer in full production and available for faculty use

    Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) most powerful supercomputer to date, Gautschi, has completed its early user program and entered full production - now available for faculty use. The Gautschi cluster features cutting-ed...