Science Highlights
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Anvil used to train cancer researchers in big data analysis
Purdue’s powerful Anvil supercomputer is being used to train a group of cancer researchers – from graduate students to professors and practicing physicians – on big data management, analysis and visualization skills. Min Zhang, professor of statistic...
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Envision Center developing 3D weather visualization technology to assist small aircraft pilots
New technology developed by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Envision Center aims to make aviation safer by helping pilots avoid flying into adverse weather. In collaboration with FlightProfiler, the Envision Center has created a geospatial...
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RCAC wins best paper, poster awards at research computing conference
Several Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) staff members received awards for their posters and papers at the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference held last week. The paper “Understanding Factors that Influ...
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Anvil accelerates genome sequencing for studying psychiatric disorders
Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer has helped one research team better understand how DNA changes relate to psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder. Richard Wilton, an associate research scientist at Johns Hopkins Uni...
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Rosen Center for Advanced Computing staff to present at research computing conference
Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) staff will present posters and papers about topics such as Purdue’s powerful new Anvil supercomputer, biocontainers and workforce development, lead a tutorial about Anvil’s interactive computing capabilities...
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Anvil ranked 143rd on list of world’s most powerful supercomputers
Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer has debuted at number 143 on the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, announced this week at the ISC22 supercomputing conference. With a peak processing speed of 5.1 petaFLOPs, Anvil will deliver over...
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Research Computing develops software container tools for bioinformatics research
Purdue Research Computing now offers biocontainers – software containers designed for Purdue’s community clusters that contain more than 400 commonly used bioinformatics tools. Biocontainers have the advantage of keeping things organized by isolating...
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Professor developing numerical tools for astrophysical modeling with the help of Anvil supercomputer
Purdue’s powerful new Anvil supercomputer is helping unlock the secrets of space weather. Asif ud-Doula, an associate professor of physics at Penn State Scranton, develops numerical tools to model the stellar winds of massive stars. He uses three-dim...
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Jingjing Liang, an assistant professor of quantitative forest ecology in the department of forestry and natural resources, recently led a team that produced the first ever estimate of the total number of tree species in the world – and they did it wi...
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Women in HPC group hosting data processing training, speaker series in April
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group, led by Research Computing staff members, is hosting an online “Introduction to Data and Data Processing” workshop on Friday April 1 from 2-3:30 p.m. The workshop will be a beginner-level disc...
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A Purdue professor who searches for factors of very large numbers – work that is essential to keeping everything from nuclear weapons to personal banking information secure - is using new hybrid cloud capabilities between Purdue community HPC cluster...
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Research Computing’s Fortress storage archive expands capacity
The Fortress archival storage system has a new tape library that has expanded the archive’s capacity by a factor of five, from approximately 50 petabytes of data to more than 250 petabytes. The new SpectraLogic TFinity tape library can hold 9,000 tap...
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New Bell cluster GPUs helping Purdue researchers in neuroscience, chemical engineering
As part of a push to expand GPU computing capabilities to meet the needs of researchers working in AI and machine learning, Purdue Research Computing has added eight MI50 AMD GPUs and six MI60 AMD GPUs to the Bell community cluster – and they are alr...
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Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer aids in drug discovery
Purdue’s powerful new Anvil supercomputer is helping one researcher accelerate his biomolecular simulations and unlock new treatments for heart disease. Yinglong Miao, an assistant professor at the Center for Computational Biology and Department of M...
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Purdue's Anvil supercomputer now available for use
Purdue University's powerful new Anvil supercomputer, funded by the National Science Foundation and built in partnership with Dell and AMD, is now available for use. Anvil will significantly increase the computing capacity available to users of the N...
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Research Computing senior scientist awarded $25,000 Better Scientific Software fellowship
Amiya Maji, a senior computational scientist for Research Computing, has been named a 2022 Fellow by the Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship Program, which aims to foster and promote practices, processes, and tools to improve developer produ...
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Research Computing scientist co-PI on $15 million NSF Institute
Research Computing senior research scientist Carol Song is the co-principal investigator on a five year $15 million award from the National Science Foundation establishing a new institute for geospatial data-driven scientific research. The institute...
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Purdue chemical engineers have used Research Computing community clusters to develop a machine learning framework that creates various structural models of how a catalyst, aiding a chemical reaction, might be transformed under the reaction environmen...
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CAAV conference happening at Purdue next week
Purdue’s Envision Center will host the sixth annual Campus Alliance for Advanced Visualization (CAAV) conference on Nov. 1-4. Laura Theademan, senior operations manager for the Envision Center, is the conference chair. The conference focuses on colla...
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Research Computing executive director presents to federal agencies
Preston Smith, executive director of Research Computing, spoke last week at the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program’s working group on high-end computing about the campus perspective on the health of the HPC...