Announcements
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Purdue partnership for putting idle computers to work on research wins international award
Purdue is being recognized as a worldwide campus technology innovator for its DiaGrid system harnessing what would be otherwise wasted computing power for major research projects. Campus Technology Magazine has selected DiaGrid for one of its 2009 Ca...
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New Purdue cluster was working on the TeraGrid before it was even finished
Purdue University’s new high-performance computing cluster, named Coates, was available on the TeraGrid even before staff and volunteers finished building it July 21. The nodes in the new cluster, made up of more than 700 HP dual quad-core computers...
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ITaP units' virtualization partnership avoids duplication, better serves researchers
Recent growth in demand for computational resources from Purdue researchers prompted ITaP to expand its high-performance computing hardware drastically, including the Steele community cluster built in 2008, one of the world’s Top 500 supercomputers,...
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Purdue Google Gadgets offer satellite data visualization for everybody
Purdue collects masses of satellite data for use by scientists and state and local officials, but anybody who uses Google now can share in some of this data cornucopia. Two Google Gadgets -- a type of small Web application -- created by Purdue staff...
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Purdue partnership for putting idle computers to work on research wins international award
Purdue is being recognized as a worldwide campus technology innovator for its DiaGrid system, harnessing what would be otherwise wasted computing power for major research projects. Campus Technology Magazine has selected DiaGrid for one of its 2009 C...
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Cluster Challenge: Purdue, ITaP student supercomputing team ready for SC09
Purdue students Alex Younts and David King helped build Purdue’s latest supercomputer in July. Call it a summer workout. Younts and King are now part of a Purdue student team running its own supercomputer in a competition at the SC09 Conference in Po...
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Purdue highlights cloud computing tools at SC09 supercomputing conference
Facebook for scientists—but built to facilitate serious research rather than socializing—and an award-winning method for putting idle computers to work on scientific breakthroughs are Purdue-developed technologies in the spotlight at the SC09, the wo...
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Purdue research computing grid is no Toy Story, but a new animated video about it is close
If Purdue University computer graphics technology student Micah Bojrab gets his dream job with a Hollywood animation studio, a system for harnessing unused computers to do cutting-edge research will have played a part. The DiaGrid system developed by...
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DiaGrid: Purdue puts SC09 supercomputing conference computers to work on science
Ken Newton uses computer simulations of ions (charged atoms) to optimize techniques used in studying their structure. Ions are essential to life and important in everything from plant growth to water movement in the human body. Newton models millions...
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SC09 Cluster Challenge: Purdue, ITaP student supercomputing team wins 'green' computing award
Purdue’s student Cluster Challenge team at the SC09 supercomputing conference in Portland, Ore., was fast and green. The Purdue team in the competition, where teams of undergraduates from around the country pushed their student-run supercomputers to...
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ITaP sets Jan. 4 deadline for buying into the new Coates cluster
ITaP is issuing a “last call” to Purdue researchers who may want to buy nodes in the new Coates community cluster supercomputer. Those wishing to buy into Coates should place an order at: www.rcac.purdue.edu/order. The deadline for submitting orders...
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Purdue's DiaGrid is a top 100 information technology development for 2009
The DiaGrid project operated by ITaP has been selected by IDG’s InfoWorld as one of the top 100 information technology projects of 2009 in its InfoWorld 100 Awards. IDG is a major publisher of computer and information technology magazines and Web sit...
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Purdue to install Big Ten's biggest campus computer in just a day
The largest supercomputer on a Big Ten campus will be installed at Purdue in a single-day, electronic "barn-raising." More than 200 employees will gather May 5 to help build the massive machine, which will be about the size of a semitrailer...
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Purdue supercomputer unboxed and built by lunchtime
Staff members at Purdue University had hoped to build the Big Ten’s largest campus supercomputer in just a day on Monday, May 5. But it didn’t take that long — they were done by lunch. Read more at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2008a/080505McCartneyBu...
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Summer research interns get early look at graduate student life
When Purdue Terrestrial Observatory Director Gilbert Rochon gave a presentation recently about high tech mapping of Indiana’s flooding this summer, employing satellite imagery from the observatory, Jean Pierre Antelo and Kaiem Frink were there with h...
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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. Joseph River Watershed in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. Instead, they use supercomputers...
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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 or weeks, says Purdue Professor Gary Bertoline. But if the load could be shared among hundreds, eve...
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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. Andy Howard and Alex Younts, both of West Lafayette, Ind., walked away with the top student prize for...
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"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 others and they all caution that more refining and testing need to be done. “It allows us to efficien...
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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 specialized design you would never see on the street, nor in your average data center, which Bandwidth Challe...