Science Highlights
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MyGeoHub successfully hosts the 2024 SIMPLE-G Short Course
MyGeoHub, the geospatial science gateway designed to support geospatial modeling, data analysis, and visualization, has a lot to offer to the broad research and education communities. Through hosting groups, datasets, tools, training materials, and e...
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Worldwide particle physics experiment relies on Geddes cluster
Purdue is a large contributor of computing power to a major particle physics experiment, which relies on the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Geddes community cluster, among others, to process and analyze large datasets in real time. The...
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Anvil enters year three of production
Anvil, Purdue’s most powerful supercomputer, continues its pursuit of excellence in HPC as it enters its third year of operations. Funded by a $10 million acquisition grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Anvil began early user operations...
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Industrial engineering students analyze RCAC cluster data for senior capstone project
For their senior capstone course IE431, a group of recent industrial engineering graduates worked with RCAC staffers to analyze data from RCAC systems and build an interactive dashboard aimed at reducing system downtime. Working with Kyle Purple, RCA...
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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...
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RCAC student employee successfully defends Master’s Thesis
Yiqing Qu, a Graduate Research Assistant at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), recently obtained her Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Information and Technology. Her MS thesis was related to the work she conducted at RCAC, which...
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In collaboration with the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Envision Center, a Purdue political scientist is leveraging the immersive nature of virtual reality and incorporating it into his research in ways that are novel for his field. Br...
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Envision Center event lets RCAC students showcase projects
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted a student presentation event at the Envision Center, which gave RCAC’s student employees a chance to demonstrate their hard work and achievements over the last year. More than 20 student...
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RCAC hosts outreach event for local high schoolers
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted an outreach activity for the Southport High School Engineering, Computer Science, and Robotics students and the school’s Girls Who Code group. During the event, the high schoolers learned...
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Purdue professor uses Envision Center motion capture technology for AI music project
A Purdue professor is using the Envision Center’s motion capture technology for a project focusing on AI applications with musical instruments. Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun, a clinical associate professor of music, is using motion capture technology while pla...
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Anvil supercomputer slated to assist with national pilot project aimed at advancing AI
Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer is now an official resource provider for the newly launched National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot. The NAIRR is a National Science Foundation (NSF) project aimed at creating a nationa...
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WHPC event highlights the importance of women in STEM
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently hosted a presentation surrounding Rebecca Sharples’s Doctor of Education (Ed.D) dissertation, which was inspired by the remarkable life journey of Suzanna Gardner, the Senior Research...
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20-year birthday celebration for the Envision Center
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Envision Center, a group dedicated to assisting, supporting, and collaborating with faculty, students, and industry in scientific visualization, virtu...
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Envision Center showcases innovation at recent campus events
Festival of Teaching and Learning On the afternoon of April 12th, 2024, the Envision Center took part in Purdue University’s Festival of Teaching and Learning, hosted by the Blue Sky Teaching and Learning Laboratory. The festival was held to celebrat...
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Envision Center hosts annual student presentation event
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Envision Center will host a student presentation event on Thursday, April 25 from 1-2:30 pm for the center’s students to share their work in a series of lightning talks. Vaughn Valentino, a junior dou...
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Anvil assists in AI research to help boost pedestrian infrastructure
Researchers from Purdue University used the Anvil supercomputer in their quest to automate sidewalk identification from Google Street View images and develop sidewalk maps for neighborhoods using computer vision techniques. Omar Faruqe Hamim is a Gra...
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Purdue’s Women in HPC hosts presentation
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group is hosting a presentation on April 26 from 12-1:30 p.m. at the Envision Center. The presentation will focus on Rebecca Sharples’s Doctor of Education (Ed.D) dissertation, which was inspired by...
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Envision Center to celebrate its 20-year anniversary with a day of events
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Purdue’s Envision Center, and on April 17th, the center will host a day of events to celebrate the occasion. Quick Look -Open House, 4/17/24, 10 a.m. until 12 p.m.—The Envision Center will commemorate its 20th...
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Women in HPC sponsors student attendance at Game Developers Conference
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently sponsored an undergraduate student’s attendance at the 2024 Game Developers Conference (GDC), part of a new scholarship program that has also seen students attend the Grace Hopper Cel...
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A team led by Purdue researchers has used the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s community clusters for a groundbreaking catalyst research and design paper recently published in Nature. Jeffrey Greeley, the Charles and Nancy Davidson Profe...