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  • Gilbreth cluster storage capacity doubled to meet the needs of AI researchers

    Recognizing the need for faster and larger storage capacity in emerging areas of science, Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has recently doubled the storage capacity in Gilbreth, its community cluster that is optimized for communiti...

  • Anvil helps researchers simulate and predict gravitational waves

    Scientists from the collaborative Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) research group are using Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to explore the physics of cataclysmic space-time events and help shed light on the nature of one of the Universe’s fundamental...

  • Anvil REU Summer 2023 program is a tremendous success

    After 11 weeks of hard work and hands-on education, the Anvil Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer 2023 program has come to a close. This year’s Anvil REU program saw five students from across the nation gather at Purdue’s campus in We...

  • Envision Center, Emerging Technologies in Learning Design and Technology delivering a series of extended reality workshops beginning Sept. 29

    The Emerging Technologies in Learning Design and Technology group in the College of Education, led by Victoria Lowell, and George Takahashi from the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Envision Center, are collaborating to offer a new three-...

  • Envision Center student event gives seniors a chance to showcase projects

    The Envision Center's recent senior presentation event held on April 24 was a success and gave the center’s graduating seniors a chance to showcase their hard work and accomplishments. Attendees were able to hear from their peers about their project...

  • RCAC hosts second annual cyberinfrastructure symposium, focus on AI future and ethics

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) held its second annual cyberinfrastructure symposium “Cyberinfrastructure and AI” on October 12. The event, a follow-up to last year’s inaugural symposium, featured a keynote address from DataDirect Netw...

  • Cancer researchers learn about big data analysis using Anvil

    The BigCare 2023 Summer Workshop, an on-site program that utilized the Anvil supercomputer to help train cancer researchers on how to harness the power of big data, has recently concluded, and based on participant feedback, it was a huge success! The...

  • Women in HPC sponsors student attendance at SIGGRAPH conference

    Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group has sponsored student attendance at a series of conferences in 2023. One of those students, Kate Koury, who is earning a master’s degree in computer graphics technology, recently returned from...

  • RCAC students shine in summer internships across the nation

    This past summer, Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) students ventured far and wide to gain invaluable professional experience at various companies throughout the nation. Their diverse journeys have showcased their talents...

  • RCAC partners with Purdue faculty on NSF-funded cybertraining program

    Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is a partner on an $850,000 grant awarded to a team led by Venkatesh Merwade, professor of civil engineering, to create a cybertraining curriculum for climate, water and environmental (CWE) sustaina...

  • Exploratory Series: Archaeology and HPC

    Running from boulders, jumping across chasms, defeating villains while simultaneously finding ancient and mysterious artifacts—this is archaeology. Except, that’s not quite true. These are common misconceptions people tend to have about the field, an...

  • Anvil REU Student Lands Cybersecurity Role

    MaKayla McCartan is an undergraduate student at Purdue University, where she majors in cybersecurity and minors in both sociology and organizational leadership. McCartan was a participant in the 2022 Anvil REU program, and has recently accepted an in...

  • Researchers use Anvil supercomputer to study instabilities in polymers

    Scientists from the Material Research and Innovation Laboratory (MRAIL) at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville used the Anvil supercomputer to obtain a deeper understanding of the Flow-induced structural instabilities of polymers and polymer dynami...

  • RCAC supercomputers help Purdue professor unlock mysteries of mechanics and material chemistry

    A Purdue researcher who studies material chemistry is using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) supercomputers to learn more about how materials behave in products like organic electronics and lithium-ion batteries. Kejie Zhao, professor...

  • Women in HPC sponsors student attendance at Grace Hopper Celebration

    Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group sponsored a group of women students to attend the 2023 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing, which took place in Orlando, Fla. in September. Women who attended GHC participated...

  • Competitors on the court, colleagues in computing

    High-performance computing (HPC) is booming in the state of Indiana. Two of the nation’s top National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded supercomputers reside on campuses within the state: Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer, located in West Lafayet...

  • RCAC, College of Agriculture partner to reshape agriculture research

    Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has partnered with the College of Agriculture to develop cyberinfrastructure that better serves the computational and data management needs of agriculture researchers. The College of Agriculture’s A...

  • Purdue to attend SC23 supercomputing conference, highlight “Purdue Computes” initiative

    Purdue's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is set to host a booth at the upcoming SC23 Supercomputing conference, scheduled to take place in Denver, Colorado, from Nov. 12-17. The Purdue booth will highlight the recently announced “Purdue Co...

  • Women in HPC group hosting talk about creating inclusive classrooms in February

    Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group is hosting a talk by Elizabeth Karcher, associate professor of animal sciences, titled “Everyone is welcome: Effective practices for creating engaging and inclusive classroom environments” on...

  • Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer helps researchers look at the origins of the universe

    A long time ago, before there were galaxies far, far away, there was an explosion of unimaginable proportions. Everything that ever has and ever will exist in the universe was compressed within a single point, and for reasons unknown, that point expl...