Announcements
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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 performance computers, presentations planned by Purdue researchers at the SuperComputing ’08 conference...
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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 Massachusetts. But long distance connection hasn’t been a problem for the Purdue SuperComputing ’08 Confe...
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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 geeks who love both science and technology try their hand at designing and operating a simulated resear...
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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 scientific community. A team of five students enrolled in a high performance computing class at Purdue is gea...
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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 allows faculty and staff to test a variety of systems before making purchases. Since the equipment prices...
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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 easily in a graphical Web-based fashion, rather than typing in cryptic commands DOS style. “We’re tired...
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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 athletics rival, but longtime computing and research collaborator, Indiana University. IU is linking n...
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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 fast. That’s the score the Purdue team posted with the unusual SiCortex supercomputer it is using in...
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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 on a supercomputer powered by bicycling colleagues of seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armst...
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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 Challenge at SuperComputing ’08, the world’s premier high performance computing conference. Purdue w...
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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 performance computing systems in the world, according to rankings released at the SuperComputing ’08 co...
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TeraGrid '07 Conference Registration Now Open!!
Conference Registration is Open! Registration is open for the second annual TeraGrid conference -- "TeraGrid '07: Broadening Participation in TeraGrid.” Thank you to everyone who submitted papers for TG07! The paper submission process is now clo...
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Purdue teams up with California university to raise the bar in grid computing
Purdue University researchers have reached new milestones in grid interoperability through the successful integration of two Open Science Grid (OSG) sites running a scientific application over the National Science Foundation TeraGrid network. Read mo...
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Purdue offers Condor resources to TeraGrid community
Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing has become the largest provider of high-throughput computing cycles on the National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid. Carol X. Song, senior research scientist in the Rosen Center and principal inve...
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Atkins to Speak at TeraGrid '07
Speakers, Science Gateways and Tutorials -- Much in store for attendees at TeraGrid ’07! CHICAGO — The second annual TeraGrid conference, being held June 4-8 in Madison, Wisconsin, will provide the scientific community with opportunities for knowledg...
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Purdue makes distributed rendering available at SIGGRAPH 2007 via TeraGrid
Academic animators and researchers doing scientific visualizations have a new resource that will allow them to render their 3-D animations in a fraction of the time it can take on a single computer. Attendees of the 2007 ACM SIGGRAPH conference in Sa...
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Important news for Radon/Recycled cluster users
The Radon/Recycled Linux cluster was upgraded significantly during RCAC's August 15-17 maintenance window. Changes resulting from this upgrade include the following: The operating system on radon.rcac.purdue.edu and the cluster's compute nodes was u...
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New specialization will focus on supercomputing
Purdue University is developing courses that will focus on high performance computing, making it one of a few universities nationwide to offer such curriculum. The specialization will be offered in the Department of Computer and Information Technolog...
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Purdue among NSF Sites Providing 34 Million Hours of Supercomputing Time to Scientists
Every three months, a committee of computational scientists from across the country reviews requests for, and awards time at, NSF-supported supercomputing centers. At its recent meeting, 34 million hours of computing time were awarded to 90 projects....
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Rosen Center now has 14 times the computing capacity it had two years ago
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has 14 times the computing capacity now than it did two years ago, thanks to a new supercomputer and the creation of a community cluster model. RCAC's computing resources formerly totaled 1 TFlop, or one...