News Archive

Purdue partnership for putting idle computers to work on research wins international award

August 19, 2009

Purdue is being recognized as a worldwide campus technology innovator for its DiaGrid system harnessing what would be otherwise wasted computing power for major reseaerch projects.

Campus Tec... Read More

Virus views enhanced using nation's largest Condor flock

September 15, 2008

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A team led by a Purdue University researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had previously been achieved.

Wen Jiang, ... Read More

Proposed new city of Istanbul premiers in animated video

September 15, 2008

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Istanbul is at such high risk for a devastating earthquake that engineers at Purdue University and the Republic of Turkey have come up with a bold new proposal: build a seco... Read More

'Push-button' climate modeling now available

September 15, 2008

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A tool used by scientists to create climate models is about to become easier to use and available to a much wider audience.

A new Web-enhanced version of the most co... Read More

Purdue teams up with California university to raise the bar in grid computing

August 25, 2008

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University researchers have reached new milestones in grid interoperability through the successful integration of two Open Science Grid (OSG) sites running a scient... Read More

Purdue offers Condor resources to TeraGrid community

August 25, 2008

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing has become the largest provider of high-throughput computing cycles on the National Science Foundation's Read More

Purdue makes distributed rendering available at SIGGRAPH 2007 via TeraGrid

August 25, 2008

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Academic animators and researchers doing scientific visualizations have a new resource that will allow them to render their 3-D animations in a fraction of the time it can take ... Read More

Purdue students take top honors at TeraGrid conference

August 25, 2008

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University students who used supercomputers to peer into the future of such water systems as the St. Joseph River Watershed in northern Indiana and southern Michigan have... Read More

Organic Coating Boosts Solar Cell Performance

February 22, 2008

The energy from sunlight falling on only 9 percent of California’s Mojave Desert could power all of the United States’ electricity needs if the energy could be efficiently harvested, ac... Read More

Purdue Login Host tg-login has Moved

November 28, 2007

The DNS alias for the main login node for the Purdue Teragrid site (tg-login.purdue.teragrid.org) has been changed to refer to a new host, which is a 64-bit RHEL3 machine like the Lear cluster behind ... Read More

nanoHUB now TeraGrid Gateway

November 28, 2007

The nanoHUB led by Purdue University is an effort or the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN). Led by Purdue University the nanoHUB is linking to the TeraGrid through the science gateway ... Read More

11 TFlops through Condor

November 28, 2007

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) at Purdue University has opened up access to 11 teraflops of computing power to the TeraGrid community. Based on a new model known... Read More