Article #405: 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...
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Article #401: 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 powe...
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Article #399: 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 thi...
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Article #387: 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 drasticall...
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Article #386: 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 buil...
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Article #385: 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...
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Article #383: ITaP interns get real experience with research and technology, graduate student life
ITaP summer research intern Lutalo Webb already knew he would be back when he arrived at Purdue. The May engineering graduate from Vanderbilt Univers...
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Article #382: Encore to ITaP's first supercomputer barn-raising is even better than the original
Last year ITaP staff and a small army of volunteers had the Steele supercomputer built by noon. The anticipation was that the new Coates cluster would...
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Article #364: ITaP taking orders for new research supercomputing cluster and individual systems
Orders for nodes in the new Coates community cluster are now being taken by Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP). This also is an opportunity for d...
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Article #363: Purdue TeraGrid staff and students present at CondorWeek 2009
Condor Week is a four-day annual gathering of Condor developers, collaborators and users at the home of the Condor development team: University of Wis...
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Article #362: New TeraGrid Campus Champion making Purdue researchers an
A “people person” with a background in helping users take advantage of high-performance computing resources whose job already focuses on assisting res...
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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...