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  • Purdue to host 2025 GlobusWorld Tour Workshop

    Purdue University’s Rosen Center of Advanced Computing (RCAC) is pleased to announce, in conjunction with GlobusWorld Tour, an all-day Globus workshop. Taking place on August 8, from 8:30 a.m. until 3:00 PM, the in-person workshop will cover a variet...

  • RCAC’s Negishi cluster helps nuclear engineering researcher parallelize and scale electroporation model

    A nuclear engineering graduate student at Purdue has partnered with RCAC staff to use the Negishi cluster to refine and scale his model. Samuel Wyss, who recently graduated with his master’s degree in nuclear engineering under the supervision of Alle...

  • Gautschi Support Hour now available for system users

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce special-purpose support and training times for Gautschi system users, the Gautschi Support Hour. Much like our Anvil Support Hour, the Gautschi Support Hour will be a designated, o...

  • Anvil used to advance research on two-phase flows

    Researchers from The George Washington University used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to simulate fluid flows in order to elucidate the physics of turbulent bubble entrainment. Understanding this process will lead to practical applications in a variety...

  • Purdue awarded Western Digital storage to enable big data health research

    Purdue University was recently awarded 1.2 Petabytes of hard disk drive (HDD) storage from Western Digital to further enable research that relies on quick access to big data repositories. This award, granted through Western Digital’s Petabyte Innovat...

  • RCAC partners with faculty member on autism diagnostic tool

    A new collaboration between the Rosen Center and Advanced Computing (RCAC) and a Purdue faculty member aims to make it easier to detect autism earlier and more accurately. Brandon Keehn, associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences an...

  • RCAC Student Spotlight: Augusto Butkewitsch

    Name: Augusto Butkewitsch Year: Sophomore  Major:  Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics  Position in RCAC: Programmer   Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Augusto and I’m a programmer!   What a...

  • CollabXR advances education through successful pilot program

    Purdue University’s Envision Center (EC) is ushering in the next generation of teaching and learning by leveraging their cutting-edge virtual reality platform, CollabXR. CollabXR is a shared learning platform that puts advanced visualizations at the...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • CI-XP Student Presentations at the Envision Center

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted its annual CI-XP Student Program Lightning Talks, giving RCAC students a chance to showcase their projects and accomplishments to peers and staff within the organization. The CI-XP (Cyber...

  • RCAC sponsors Purdue student hackathon challenge, awards Gautschi-AI hours to winner

    Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently sponsored a challenge at the Catapult Hackathon, an event put on by the ML@Purdue student club. RCAC’s sponsorship included an allocation of GPU hours on the Gaustschi community cluster, wi...

  • Purdue joins ALCF Lighthouse Initiative, leveraging additional computational and AI resources to advance critical research

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is joining forces with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, through the newly launched Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) Lighthouse Initiative. Thanks to this partnersh...

  • RCAC Student Spotlight: Ankitha Mallekav

    Name: Ankitha Mallekav Year: Senior Major: Computer Engineering Position: HPC Research Assistant Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Ankitha Mallekav and I’m a senior working at RCAC as an HPC Res...

  • Purdue student attends Game Developers Conference with WHPC support

    Purdue graduate student Megha Bisht recently attended the 2025 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco with support from the university’s Women in High-Performance Computing group. Bisht, a first-year student in the Master of Engineering Manage...

  • Anvil supercomputer supports Cryo-EM workshop

    The Southeastern Center for Microscopy of Macromolecular Machines (SECM4) utilized Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer to host the 2024 SECM4 data processing workshop. The workshop focused on teaching researchers how to process data for single-pa...

  • RCAC Seminar Series: The Case for Centralized Project Documentation

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has recently begun hosting a monthly seminar wherein an employee of the department has the opportunity to highlight their work. The latest RCAC seminar was presented by Chimdia Primus Kabuo, a Senior Res...

  • Anvil REU Student presents at GOOD 2025

    Richie Tan, one of the participants of the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) 2024 Anvil Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer program, recently presented at the Global Open OnDemand 2025 Conference (GOOD 2025). Tan highlighte...

  • RCAC Student Spotlight: Koki Motoi

    Name: Koki Motoi Year: Grad Student Major: Learning Design and Technology Position: Instructional Designer Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Koki Motoi and I’m a grad student working at RCAC as an Ins...