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  • Batch system and module changes on RCAC systems

    Beginning with the new Carter cluster, RCAC users will note some differences in the PBS batch system and the module names available for use. This article aims to outline the reasons for these changes and describe some of the details. Why has ITaP cha...

  • Carter cluster shows ability to accelerate research jobs, capacity still available

    Capacity in Purdue’s latest community cluster is still available and the new research supercomputer is now in full production. Purdue faculty researchers using the Carter cluster report that it can significantly speed up time to results for many rese...

  • BLASTer tool upgraded on DiaGrid Hub: BLASTer 1.1 released

    A new version of DiaGrid's BLASTer tool has been released. Version 1.1 adds support for custom databases, allowing researchers to upload their own protein or nucleotide sequences to search against. This added flexibility makes BLASTer an even more po...

  • Carter cluster getting good grades from faculty, capacity still available

    Purdue faculty researchers using the Carter community cluster report that the University’s latest research supercomputer can significantly speed up time to results for many research applications and enable more complex simulations. Capacity in the Ca...

  • Upgrades to the DiaGrid Hub

    The DiaGrid Hub (https://web.archive.org/web/20100301000000*/http://www.dia-grid.org) has been upgraded, adding support for new features and improving the user experience. DiaGrid Hub now supports logging in with a Purdue Career Account. DiaGrid us...

  • New HUBzero version has extensive research team coordination, collaboration features

    The latest version of HUBzero, an open source “cyberinfrastructure in a box,” with new capability to create collaborative “project” areas within a hub, federated identity management, email integration, design improvements, and dozens of other new fea...

  • BLASTer tool upgraded on DiaGrid Hub: BLASTer 1.2 released

    The DiaGrid team is pleased to announce version 1.2 of the BLASTer bioinformatics tool. Version 1.2 adds several features, including better disk space utilization and the ability to sort runs by any field. BLASTer 1.2 is available for immediate use o...

  • New R tool with access to thousands of processors available to Purdue researchers

    A new Web-based R tool now available to Purdue faculty and their students through an accessible graphical interface and Purdue’s DiaGrid distributed computing system will be demonstrated in a November presentation by ITaP research computing staff. Th...

  • This Purdue team is super — at supercomputing

    Whether it’s developing new cancer treatments or tracking down the particles that make up the universe, not to mention powering Amazon or iTunes, Nick Molo knows high-performance computing is an essential tool. So the Purdue junior in computer engine...

  • Purdue highlighting versatile HUBzero technology and more at international supercomputing conference

    For researchers like Nick Marra, who’s studying genes in evolutionary adaptation, using BLAST, the standard software for DNA and other biological sequence searches, is now easier and faster with BLASTer, a Web-based version of BLAST sporting a friend...

  • Trinity RNAseq assembly software running on RCAC Clusters

    Trinity RNAseq assembly on the RCAC Clusters Trinity on the RCAC clusters. Trinity is a software package for reconstructing genetic sequences from RNA transcripts. It runs well on RCAC cluster nodes, with some consideration for the specific challenge...

  • Purdue student supercomputing team has had its coffee and is off and running

    Tyler Reid started work Monday in the wee hours of the morning, benchmarking the student-run supercomputer being operated by six Purdue undergraduates in an international competition this week. But while Reid pushed the machine to its limits, all the...

  • Students gain new perspectives on supercomputing, breakfast, mattresses

    As a student worker helping maintain Purdue’s research supercomputers, Andrew Huff knows something about how University faculty researchers use the machines, but he gained a broader perspective on the high-performance computing field this week. Super...

  • New class will have students building, running their own supercomputer

    When his computer architecture class gets to solving bottlenecks various applications tend to hit, Ethan Madden figures he will be in familiar territory. After all, the junior in computer science from Newburgh spent most of the semester figuring out...

  • Moving research to energy efficient community cluster saves time and money

    Electrical engineering Professor Scott Sudhoff’s research looks, in part, for ways to optimize electric motors and generators. It is fitting then that Purdue’s community cluster supercomputers provided an opportunity to improve the energy efficiency...

  • Research and education technologies conference presentations now available online

    Video of and PowerPoint slides from presentations at Purdue CI Days 2010—a two-day event focused on technology to enhance research, teaching and program funding—are now available online. The presentations, which covered topics ranging from supercompu...

  • ITaP and Purdue Calumet partnership gives Calumet campus first large-scale supercomputer

    At Purdue University Calumet, Chenn Qian Zhou's engineering students work on real-world problems from energy companies, the steel industry, refineries and vehicle parts manufacturers, among others, businesses in Indiana, nationally and internationall...

  • ITaP surveying faculty and staff about research computing needs and new supercomputer

    ITaP is planning a new community cluster supercomputer to be built in 2011 and gathering information about what Purdue faculty and staff may need either as a part of the new system or in computers for departmental or individual use. The combined purc...

  • Coates scratch directory changes on 2/22 and 3/31

    The default scratch directory location for the Coates Linux cluster has changed from the BlueArc storage servers to the Lustre storage system installed last summer. Starting March 31st, your BlueArc scratch directory will be read-only from Coates nod...

  • Future athletic rivals, Nebraska and Purdue are teammates in research computing

    Nebraska may not feel like an official member of the Big Ten Conference until football season begins this fall, but Purdue and its future conference rival already are models of good sportsmanship in the field of research computing. The University of...