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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #230: 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...
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Article #224: 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 fracti...
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Article #219: 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 J...
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Article #211: 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 Fo...
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Article #207: TeraGrid '07 Conference Registration Now Open!!
Conference Registration is Open! Registration is open for the second annual TeraGrid conference -- "TeraGrid '07: Broadening Participation in Ter...