Science Highlights
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Team led by Purdue professor receives industry award for work done on RCAC’s Bell cluster
A team led by Purdue professor Guillermo Paniagua was honored with the “Best HPC Collaboration” award in HPCwire’s 2023 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards for its work developing novel engine components that will have implications for decarbonized p...
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Rosen Center for Advanced Computing staff to present at research computing conference
Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) staff will present posters and papers and lead workshops at the upcoming Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference held in Portland, Ore. from July 23-27, 2023. The PEARC conf...
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Scholar cluster powers Purdue’s Formula SAE team to success in race car competition
Purdue's Formula SAE student racing team recently achieved the best result in their team’s 30-year history, thanks in large part to the use of the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Scholar cluster. Every year, the Formula SAE team designs...
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The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s newest community cluster Negishi, named in honor of distinguished professor of chemistry and Nobel laureate Ei-ichi Negishi, was dedicated Friday afternoon in a ceremony including Negishi’s daughters a...
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Anvil REU Program has major impact on student success
After only one year, the Anvil summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program is already impacting the lives and careers of the students who participated. Nrushad Joshi, an undergraduate student at Indiana University, recently accepted...
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Anvil helps Yale researchers in the search for batteries of the future
Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer has been helping researchers forge a path in developing the batteries of the future. Dr. Aakash Kumar, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science as well as the Energy Scien...
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Purdue researchers leading the fight against infectious diseases using Anvil
Purdue researchers are using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s powerful Anvil supercomputer to fight infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB). Elsje Pienaar, an associate professor at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, l...
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Envision Center collaboration aims to make construction work safer
New technology developed by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Envision Center in collaboration with a Purdue professor aims to make construction environments safer by helping workers better assess risk and avoid judgment errors. Sogand Hasanz...
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Envision Center hosting senior presentations, anniversary open house on April 24
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Envision Center is hosting an event to showcase the work of their graduating seniors on Monday, April 24 from 1-2:30 pm. The seniors will present their work in a series of lightning talks. The Envision Center...
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Anvil REU Program helps student achieve NASA internship
The Anvil summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program has once again proven invaluable for the students who participate in the hands-on learning experience. Lucas Snyder is an undergraduate student at Indiana University who studies In...
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RCAC hosts digital twin symposium featuring Purdue researchers, NVIDIA
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) held a symposium on digital twins at the Envision Center on April 11 featuring presentations from Purdue faculty and NVIDIA. A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical object that is used t...
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Recent GPU expansions to Gilbreth cluster increase capacity by 46%
After significantly expanding GPU computing capabilities in fall 2022, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has added 104 new NVIDIA A100 GPUs to the Gilbreth community cluster. Based on Dell PowerEdge R7525 compute nodes with .5 TB of RAM,...
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Research team using Anvil in hypersonics research
A team of researchers has been using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s powerful Anvil supercomputer to study gaseous jets in hypersonic crossflow, which is useful for understanding the operations of the systems that are used to steer a...
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Registration is now open for RCAC's 2024 summer camps
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) will be organizing two summer camps for high school students as part of Purdue’s 2024 on-campus “Summer College for High School Students” program that gives high school students age 16 and up the ab...
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Purdue's Anvil supercomputer enters second year of production
Anvil, Purdue’s most powerful supercomputer, is hammering out progress as it forges ahead into the second year of operations. Funded by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Anvil began early user operations in November 2021...
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Purdue Women in HPC hosting February workshop on gender stereotypes, bias
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group is hosting a workshop on February 9 from 1:30-5 p.m. at the Envision Center about the “default male” phenomenon and the pervasive influence of gender stereotypes based on the book “Invisible W...
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RCAC offers Research Software Engineering services
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)offers a wide range of research software engineering solutions to help advance scientific discovery, enable greater research reproducibility, and generate lasting impact at Purdue and beyond. RCAC’s Resea...
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Purdue’s Anvil Supercomputer Assists with COVID-19 Pandemic Response
A research group from the University of Virginia (UVA) utilized Purdue’s Anvil supercomputing cluster to help provide COVID-19 scenario modeling for local, state, federal, and university officials and departments. The team used computer models to pre...
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Women in HPC sponsors student attendance at Society of Women Engineers conference
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group sponsored two women students to attend the 2023 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) annual conference, WE23, which took place in Los Angeles in October. The Society of Women Engineers has been an...
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Negishi supercomputer now available for faculty use
The Purdue Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s latest research supercomputer, Negishi, is now available for faculty use. Negishi, which is optimized for traditional, tightly-coupled science and engineering applications, was built through a p...