Article #361: ITaP offers Purdue researchers fast, reliable, secure data storage
Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) is now offering no-hassle data storage in the same way its community cluster program helps faculty members do...
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Article #353: Survey asks Purdue researchers what they want in new computer system
Purdue researchers are being asked for feedback on the features they need in a new supercomputing cluster planned by Information Technology at Purdue...
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Article #352: Purdue, IU consortium aims to drive new era for research, education online
A powerful Web platform that allows scientists to share research modeling tools, presentations and experimental findings is the focus of a new partner...
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Article #346: Divide and conquer: distributed graphics rendering
Rendering frames in a complex animation can tie up workstations for days or weeks. A two-minute animation at 30 frames per second will typically take...
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Article #340: Steele supercomputer at Purdue makes list of world's most powerful systems
Purdue’s Steele supercomputing cluster—made possible by the collaborative efforts of faculty, staff and volunteers—is among the most powerful high per...
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Article #338: Purdue team learns from Bandwidth challenge at supercomputing conference
A team of staff members from Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing learned some things likely to come in handy from competing in the Bandwidth...
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Article #337: Purdue cluster challenge team creates a stir at supercomputing conference
Purdue’s team may not have won the Cluster Challenge at the SuperComputing ’08 Conference in Austin, Texas. Then again, no other team got to run code...
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Article #336: Purdue Cluster challenge team starts fast
Purdue’s Cluster Challenge team started off fast at the SuperComputing ’08 Conference in Austin, Texas, Monday evening (Nov. 17). As in 694 gigaflops...
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Article #335: Purdue and IU become computing teammates
Purdue University is adding to what is already the world's largest science-focused distributed computing system with the addition of computers from at...
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Article #334: Visitors at supercomputing conference impressed with Purdue-developed technology
A Purdue-developed technology called HUBzero sounds chilly, but it looks to Chris McPhee like a hot way to allow researchers to do science on line eas...
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Article #331: Pilot program lets users try Sun systems before making purchases
ITaP and Purchasing announce a pilot program designed to give researchers at Purdue rapid access to new computational hardware. The program also allow...
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Article #330: Purdue Cluster Challenge team aiming to take technology to limits
Two groups of Purdue University students and staff will compete in events aimed at pushing the limits of technology to meet the needs of the scientifi...
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Article #329: Game lets geeks compete to build virtual supercomputer
For those ready to get their geek on, Purdue University has created the computer game for you. Rack-A-Node is an online video game that lets those gee...
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Article #328: Purdue Cluster Challenge team all set for Texas
Face it, even Peyton Manning would have trouble hitting his receiver were the Colts quarterback standing in Indianapolis while his target ran in Massa...
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Article #327: Purdue Supercomputing '08 presence mixes projects to enable scientific productivity, education and fun
From an easy way to do cutting-edge science in a Web-based environment today to getting ready to take advantage of tomorrow’s next-generation high per...
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Article #326: Purdue Bandwidth Challenge team: Go ahead, try this at home
Purdue’s Bandwidth Challenge entry at the SuperComputing ’08 conference is more like a NASCAR stock car than an Indy 500 racer. Instead of a specializ...
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Article #315: "Green" scales well, according to Purdue's early users
Early “tire kicking” by Purdue researchers is winning the University’s new “green” supercomputer some fans, although the results have been mixed for o...
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Article #298: Class papers become prize winners for supercomputer-building Purdue students
For two students in Jeffrey Evans’ high-performance computing class at Purdue, homework turned out to have an unintentional, and lucrative, benefit. A...
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Article #297: Rendering environment accesses huge pool of resources
Rendering the frames in a complex animation can tie up a work station, or a whole lab of them in a computer graphics class setting, for literally days...
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Article #296: Students take top honors at TeraGrid conference
Sanjiv Kumar is something of a fortune teller, but he and his colleagues don’t use a crystal ball to peer into the future of water systems like the St...