Article #966: Purdue’s community cluster supercomputers propel Hyperloop team’s success
Hurtling through a depressurized tube at a speed of 750 miles per hour may sound like science fiction, but – thanks to an idea by billionaire SpaceX f...
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Article #960: Supercomputer, Purdue assistance puts Colombia on fast track to designing new HIV drugs, science and engineering discovery
Colombian researchers are helping design new drugs for treating HIV using a supercomputer built in a partnership between the Universidad EAFIT in Mede...
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Article #953: Halstead cluster is aeronautics professor’s 21st century wind tunnel
Jonathan Poggie's high-speed fluid mechanics research aims to make supersonic flight more efficient, but he doesn't need a physical wind tunnel to tes...
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Article #952: Professor succeeds in protein modeling competitions using Purdue’s community clusters
The basketball court isn’t the only place that Purdue has been winning lately. Using the Carter and Rice community cluster supercomputers operated by...
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Article #950: Envision Center projects showcased for President Daniels
Purdue President Mitch Daniels’ job certainly offers diverse experiences, like stepping inside the human body and docking drug molecules to proteins....
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Article #945: Professor teaches big data analysis using new, interactive version of ITaP’s Scholar cluster
You might not expect a 7:30 a.m. class to be lively and well-attended, but Mark Daniel Ward packed students into his classroom at that hour last semes...
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Article #939: Purdue students gain hands-on experience with virtual reality at Envision Center
Purdue student employees at ITaP’s Envision Center are working with cutting-edge technology to build virtual reality simulations and data visualizatio...
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Article #936: Coffee Break Consultations help Purdue faculty, students use research computing resources
As part of her research at Purdue’s Intelligent Infrastructure Systems Laboratory, Alana Wilbee creates fragility curves that indicate how likely a bu...
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Article #932: Botanical Society, HUBzero partner on PlantingScience.org, an online community for high school student researchers
An online mentoring community that connects plant scientists with secondary school students to work on student-designed research projects found the to...
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Article #927: New Halstead research supercomputer enables groundbreaking Indiana climate study
Researchers from the Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC) are using ITaP’s new Halstead research supercomputer to develop high-resolution mod...
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Article #908: New Halstead research supercomputing cluster ready for use by Purdue faculty
ITaP has built Purdue’s ninth research supercomputing system in as many years through the Community Cluster program, which gives Purdue researchers th...
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Article #909: SafeRx database enables large-scale study of prescription medication safety
When you walk away from your doctor’s office with a prescription in hand, you may think your problem has been solved – but a new set of health issues...
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Article #905: DataCenterHub addresses challenges with preserving, sharing research data
All too familiar with the phrase “publish or perish,” researchers aren’t shy about sharing their results with colleagues, but they often don’t effecti...
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Article #895: Purdue Libraries, ITaP collaborate on guide to data storage options at Purdue
Faculty and staff from the Purdue University Libraries and ITaP have compiled a user guide highlighting the different data storage options available t...
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Article #879: Purdue part of program to expand XSEDE, the NSF’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment
Purdue is one of 19 partner institutions awarded a $110 million, five-year National Science Foundation grant to build on and expand the Extreme Scienc...
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Article #856: Student supercomputing team from Purdue, Colorado competes in Germany
When the time came to write and compile a computer program for his first-year engineering class, Austyn Cousins didn’t, unlike a lot of freshman, stru...
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Article #842: Partnership between Purdue physicists and ITaP will help make science of the data deluge from a more powerful Large Hadron Collider
Dark matter is worse than Big Foot. It’s big, in theory making up about a quarter of the universe versus just 5 percent for “normal” matter. But unlik...
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Article #839: Revealing the secrets of Zika virus only the latest breakthrough enabled by Purdue’s community clusters
When the Zika virus became a global health crisis in early 2016, Purdue researchers were well prepared to make a breakthrough discovery in efforts to...
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Article #832: Snyder cluster a key tool in research looking at why eyesight weakens with aging
Vikki Weake’s lab has its eyes on genes involved in sight — and sight’s deterioration with aging — research that might lead to new ways of prolonging...
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Article #829: Rice cluster an essential tool for professor’s drug discovery research
Chemical compounds that bind to a protein in treating one disease are likely to bind to similar proteins — and potentially to be useful for treating o...