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  • RCAC hosts successful 2025 Research Computing CI Symposium in Indianapolis

    Earlier this month, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) hosted the 2025 Research Computing Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Symposium. This event marked the fourth CI Symposium put on by RCAC, and the first to take advantage of the beautiful space...

  • Staff Spotlight: Rajesh Kalyanam says goodbye to RCAC after nearly two decades of major contributions

    Rajesh Kalyanam, a senior research scientist in the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Scientific Solutions Group (SSG) who has played a major role in the funding of projects like GABBs, GeoEDF and Anvil, is leaving RCAC this week after 19 years o...

  • Purdue-connected software company uses Weber cluster in AI, quantum computing tool awarded SBIR DLA grant

    A Purdue-connected software company used the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Weber computing cluster to develop a tool that resulted in a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), which contracts,...

  • Anvil impact highlighted in National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot webinar

    Dr. Haniye Kashgarani, a Senior AI Scientist at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), recently gave a presentation for the NAIRR Pilot Partner Series Webinar. Her presentation focused on how Anvil, one of Purdue University's most powerful s...

  • Purdue RCAC partners with faculty on NSF-funded cybertraining platform, workshops

    Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) chief scientist Carol Song has continued building on an NSF-funded project with a Purdue faculty team led by Venkatesh Merwade, professor of civil engineering, to create a cybertraining curriculum for climat...

  • Anvil Open OnDemand Dashboard version 2 enters production

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has recently released the second version of their Anvil Open OnDemand (OOD) Dashboard. The Anvil OOD dashboard provides researchers who use the Anvil supercomputer with tools for user-friendly job accoun...

  • RCAC Student Spotlight: Jacob Verburgt

    Name: Jacob Verburgt Year: Grad Student Major: Biological Sciences and Statistics Position: Research Assistant Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Jacob and I’m a Research Assistant! What are some of y...

  • Researchers use Anvil to create AI model for medical image diagnosis

    Researchers from Arizona State University utilized the Anvil supercomputer to develop and deploy a fully open AI (artificial intelligence) foundation model for diagnosing diseases based on medical imaging. The new model, called Ark+, was recently pub...

  • Envision Center collaboration helps students visualize effects of climate change

    It’s one thing to hear statistics about how climate change and resulting sea level rise will impact our world, and it’s another thing entirely to step into an immersive virtual reality environment that lets you visualize those effects. That’s the pri...

  • Half of the entire Anvil supercomputer used to challenge traditional turbulence theory for space and climate modeling

    Researchers from the University of Wisconsin (UW)–Madison used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to study turbulence and turbulent transport in astrophysical plasmas. This research seeks to elucidate the fundamental physics of turbulence, which will have...

  • Second annual RCAC summer camps are a huge success

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted two summer camps for high schoolers with the goal of introducing and developing cybersecurity and coding skills. With these camps, the students not only learned new skills, but also had t...

  • Purdue participates in prestigious international conference, SC25

    Purdue University made an impact at the 2025 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC25). For more than 20 years, Purdue has participated in SC by showcasing the people and computing resources that...

  • New GLASSNET tools on MyGeoHub advance international, interdisciplinary research

    Two new climate, land-use, and agricultural data tools developed by GLASSNET team members have recently been added to the online platform MyGeoHub (mygeohub.org), allowing researchers across domains to easily access the data they need to assess progr...

  • Women in HPC sponsors student attendance at 2024 Grace Hopper Celebration

    Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently sponsored three women students to attend the 2024 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing, which took place in Philadelphia earlier this month. “Grace Hopper was an incre...

  • 80 NVIDIA A100 GPUs recently added to Gilbreth community cluster

    After expanding the Gilbreth community cluster’s GPU nodes in 2022 and yet again last year, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has once again added even more GPUs to the Gilbreth cluster to meet demand from the Purdue community. With the...

  • Purdue professor uses RCAC community clusters for weather simulation research

    A Purdue professor is using the impressive capabilities of Purdue's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) clusters to advance severe weather research. Daniel Dawson, an associate professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences, conducts...

  • RCAC and Purdue’s Women in HPC assist with inaugural InnovateHer Hackathon

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) and Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently participated in the inaugural InnovateHer Hackathon, a weekend-long event at Purdue University aimed at fostering inclusivity in the...

  • Envision Center develops VR incident response and recovery training in FEMA-funded project

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Envision Center has collaborated with a team at Purdue and Texas A&M’s Engineering Extension Service to develop virtual reality (VR)-based trainings to help public safety officials better respond to cyber...

  • Third annual Cyberinfrastructure Symposium hosted by RCAC

    Last month, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) successfully hosted its third annual cyberinfrastructure (CI) symposium. This year’s symposium focused on the role that high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and sem...

  • Anvil supercomputer used to advance knowledge of nanotechnology

    A researcher from Duke University is using Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to study and explore the underlying physics of a nanotechnology known as DNA Origami. Pranav Sharma is an Associate Researcher in the Biological and Soft Materials Modeling Lab a...