Article #240: 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 cu...
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Article #262: 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 employee...
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Article #264: 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 th...
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Article #295: 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, em...
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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...
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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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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...