Science Highlights
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Second annual RCAC summer camps are a huge success
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted two summer camps for high schoolers with the goal of introducing and developing cybersecurity and coding skills. With these camps, the students not only learned new skills, but also had t...
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RCAC staff to present at national research computing conference next week
Staff members from the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) will present papers, lead workshops and participate in panels at the upcoming Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference, themed: “The Power of Collabora...
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RCAC student improves Anvil supercomputer while obtaining Master’s degree
Vivek Karunai Kiri Ragavan, a Graduate Research Assistant at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), recently obtained his Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Information and Technology. His MS thesis was related to the work he conducte...
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Purdue receives $4 million NSF grant for StreamCI data streaming platform
Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is leading a major National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded to create an artificial intelligence (AI)-ready streaming data platform for researchers across domains. This new platfor...
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Purdue to host 2025 GlobusWorld Tour Workshop
Purdue University’s Rosen Center of Advanced Computing (RCAC) is pleased to announce, in conjunction with GlobusWorld Tour, an all-day Globus workshop. Taking place on August 8, from 8:30 a.m. until 3:00 PM, the in-person workshop will cover a variet...
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A nuclear engineering graduate student at Purdue has partnered with RCAC staff to use the Negishi cluster to refine and scale his model. Samuel Wyss, who recently graduated with his master’s degree in nuclear engineering under the supervision of Alle...
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Gautschi Support Hour now available for system users
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce special-purpose support and training times for Gautschi system users, the Gautschi Support Hour. Much like our Anvil Support Hour, the Gautschi Support Hour will be a designated, o...
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Anvil used to advance research on two-phase flows
Researchers from The George Washington University used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to simulate fluid flows in order to elucidate the physics of turbulent bubble entrainment. Understanding this process will lead to practical applications in a variety...
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Purdue awarded Western Digital storage to enable big data health research
Purdue University was recently awarded 1.2 Petabytes of hard disk drive (HDD) storage from Western Digital to further enable research that relies on quick access to big data repositories. This award, granted through Western Digital’s Petabyte Innovat...
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RCAC partners with faculty member on autism diagnostic tool
A new collaboration between the Rosen Center and Advanced Computing (RCAC) and a Purdue faculty member aims to make it easier to detect autism earlier and more accurately. Brandon Keehn, associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences an...
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RCAC Student Spotlight: Augusto Butkewitsch
Name: Augusto Butkewitsch Year: Sophomore Major: Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics Position in RCAC: Programmer Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Augusto and I’m a programmer! What a...
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CollabXR advances education through successful pilot program
Purdue University’s Envision Center (EC) is ushering in the next generation of teaching and learning by leveraging their cutting-edge virtual reality platform, CollabXR. CollabXR is a shared learning platform that puts advanced visualizations at the...
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A Purdue-connected software company used the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Weber computing cluster to develop a tool that resulted in a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), which contracts,...
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Rajesh Kalyanam, a senior research scientist in the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Scientific Solutions Group (SSG) who has played a major role in the funding of projects like GABBs, GeoEDF and Anvil, is leaving RCAC this week after 19 years o...
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RCAC hosts successful 2025 Research Computing CI Symposium in Indianapolis
Earlier this month, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) hosted the 2025 Research Computing Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Symposium. This event marked the third CI Symposium put on by RCAC, and the first to take advantage of the beautiful space...
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CI-XP Student Presentations at the Envision Center
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted its annual CI-XP Student Program Lightning Talks, giving RCAC students a chance to showcase their projects and accomplishments to peers and staff within the organization. The CI-XP (Cyber...
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RCAC sponsors Purdue student hackathon challenge, awards Gautschi-AI hours to winner
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently sponsored a challenge at the Catapult Hackathon, an event put on by the ML@Purdue student club. RCAC’s sponsorship included an allocation of GPU hours on the Gaustschi community cluster, wi...
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The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is joining forces with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, through the newly launched Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) Lighthouse Initiative. Thanks to this partnersh...
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RCAC Student Spotlight: Ankitha Mallekav
Name: Ankitha Mallekav Year: Senior Major: Computer Engineering Position: HPC Research Assistant Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Ankitha Mallekav and I’m a senior working at RCAC as an HPC Res...
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Purdue student attends Game Developers Conference with WHPC support
Purdue graduate student Megha Bisht recently attended the 2025 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco with support from the university’s Women in High-Performance Computing group. Bisht, a first-year student in the Master of Engineering Manage...