Announcements
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The DiaGrid Hub (https://web.archive.org/web/20100301000000*/http://www.dia-grid.org) has been upgraded, adding support for new features and improving the user experience. DiaGrid Hub now supports logging in with a Purdue Career Account. DiaGrid us...
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Batch system and module changes on RCAC systems
Beginning with the new Carter cluster, RCAC users will note some differences in the PBS batch system and the module names available for use. This article aims to outline the reasons for these changes and describe some of the details. Why has ITaP cha...
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Carter cluster getting good grades from faculty, capacity still available
Purdue faculty researchers using the Carter community cluster report that the University’s latest research supercomputer can significantly speed up time to results for many research applications and enable more complex simulations. Capacity in the Ca...
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BLASTer tool upgraded on DiaGrid Hub: BLASTer 1.1 released
A new version of DiaGrid's BLASTer tool has been released. Version 1.1 adds support for custom databases, allowing researchers to upload their own protein or nucleotide sequences to search against. This added flexibility makes BLASTer an even more po...
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Carter cluster shows ability to accelerate research jobs, capacity still available
Capacity in Purdue’s latest community cluster is still available and the new research supercomputer is now in full production. Purdue faculty researchers using the Carter cluster report that it can significantly speed up time to results for many rese...
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Free, fast BLAST processing with friendly interface now available to faculty and their students
BLAST, the popular bioinformatics software, is now available to Purdue faculty and their students through a new graphical user interface running on Purdue’s DiaGrid distributed computing system. DiaGrid can make thousands of processors available at o...
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New Carter community cluster is fully operational, capacity available
Alina Alexeenko thinks Purdue’s new Carter community cluster should give her lab a lot more computing power to study rarified gas flow problems — which can span topics from spacecraft exhaust plumes to tiny micro-electro-mechanical systems, or MEMS,...
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Orders open for Carter, Purdue’s new top-ranked research supercomputing cluster
Orders for the new Carter Community Cluster are now being taken by ITaP and its Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, which plans to have Purdue’s new research supercomputer running in full production by April. Carter features HP compute nodes with tw...
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New Windows HPC cluster now available to Purdue researchers
Forestry and natural resources Professor Bryan Pijanowski’s research looks at how people and land use play into the state of ecosystems, including issues like projecting loss of prime farmland to urbanization over the next 50 years and the potential...
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Regular account expiration starting on ITaP research clusters
In February, 2012, many accounts belonging to former Purdue students and staff will be retired. For most computing services at Purdue, your Purdue Career Account and @purdue.edu email will remain active as long as you remain affiliated with Purdue Un...
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Moving research to energy efficient community cluster saves time and money
Electrical engineering Professor Scott Sudhoff’s research looks, in part, for ways to optimize electric motors and generators. It is fitting then that Purdue’s community cluster supercomputers provided an opportunity to improve the energy efficiency...
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New Carter cluster is one of the greenest, as well as fastest, in the world
Purdue’s new Carter supercomputer ranks 38th on the latest Green500 list of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world, making it one of the greenest systems as well as one of the world’s most powerful. Carter placed 54th on the latest TOP...
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Free, fast BLAST processing now available on Purdue’s DiaGrid system
BLAST, the popular bioinformatics software, is now available to Purdue faculty and their students on Purdue’s DiaGrid distributed computing system, which can make thousands of processors available at once for BLAST jobs — at no cost to users. ITaP al...
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New Carter community cluster will be available to faculty in the spring
A new cutting-edge research supercomputing cluster will be available for use by Purdue faculty and their students in the spring of 2012 and should allow campus researchers to tackle larger problems and get more detailed results faster than ever befor...
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Hansen MPI Software Changes - December 16, 2011
As a follow up to our earlier tip describing the optimal MPI for computations on Hansen, we are undertaking an effort to reduce the number of maintained MPI implementations. This will make it easier for you, the user, to identify and use the best MPI...
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Cluster Challenge: Purdue, ITaP student supercomputing team does well
John Blaas and Andrew Huff, designated system administrators for Purdue’s student supercomputing team, didn’t see much of Seattle this week but it wasn’t like they slept through their trip to the Cluster Challenge, the student competition at SC11, th...
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Cluster Challenge: Purdue, ITaP student supercomputing team awaits results
Purdue’s student supercomputing team has completed the data-crunching phase of the 2011 Cluster Challenge at SC11, the world’s largest supercomputing conference, and is waiting to see where it will land in the final standings for the international co...
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Cluster Challenge: Purdue, ITaP student supercomputing team in data crunching mode
Purdue’s student supercomputing team has entered the “sleepless in Seattle” phase of the 2011 Cluster Challenge at SC11, the world’s largest supercomputing conference. The team of six undergraduates completed the benchmarking phase of the competition...
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Purdue Cluster Challenge student supercomputing team ready to compute
For Tyler Reid, a junior in computer science from Zionsville, being a member of Purdue’s student supercomputing team means a chance to get his hands on some of the latest hardware, an opportunity too good to pass up. The six-member team, which built...
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Optimizing MPI performance on Hansen
To provide an optimal computing experience on the new Hansen cluster, ITaP would like to offer some tips on utilizing Hansen most effectively. Hansen utilizes Mellanox 10 Gbps Ethernet adapters for its network interconnect. In addition to handling H...