Science Highlights
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Purdue is one of 19 partner institutions awarded a $110 million, five-year National Science Foundation grant to build on and expand the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). XSEDE accelerates open scientific discovery and bro...
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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, struggle with the assignment. A member of a student supercomputing team sponsored by ITaP, he already ha...
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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 unlike the fabled Sasquatch nobody’s ever claimed to see dark matter. We don’t even have an out-of-focus...
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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 fight the virus. They had impressive virus expertise and plenty of high-performance computing power...
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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 the eyes’ lifespan. “The eye is actually very accessible for treatment,” notes Weake, a Purdue assis...
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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 other diseases. Purdue Professor Gaurav Chopra is using nature’s tendency to use basic components acr...
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Complex systems like oceans are driven by myriad factors and interactions that need to be understood in order to better understand the whole. In the case of the oceans, even some of the smaller organisms swimming there may have significant impacts, c...
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Life science use of community clusters experiencing significant growth
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 the eyes’ lifespan. “The eye is actually very accessible for treatment,” notes Weake, a Purdue assis...
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New imaging technology developed using Rice cluster could make images from CT scans better, faster
Sharper images to aid diagnoses from medical scans that also can be generated faster, making them less expensive and exposing patients to lower doses of radiation, could be one benefit of technology being developed by campus researchers using Purdue’...
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New Rice community cluster research supercomputer ready for faculty
Carlo Scalo’s research relies on large-scale computer simulations to support modeling and fundamental investigations of complex fluid dynamic systems with a wide range of applications including heat and mass transfer, acoustics and high-speed aerodyn...
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Purdue supercomputer usage and failure data research could make supercomputers even more super
Purdue’s Community Cluster Program supercomputers are used by campus researchers to look at everything from the molecular machinery of viruses to the origins of the universe and myriad science, engineering and social science problems in between. But...
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Purdue again leads the nation in supercomputing systems for campus research
Severe thunderstorms and the potential for tornadoes are a fact of life in Indiana, at Purdue no less than the rest of the state. Dan Dawson wants to better understand the complex behaviors of these storms to eventually help provide people with more...
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Student supercomputing team from Purdue, Colombia aims for super performance in Germany
Purdue computer science major Emma Wynne has spent a lot of time writing programs for her classes, but not so much on the hardware where those programs run. That made the opportunity to help build and operate a student-run supercomputer in an interna...
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Rice, Purdue's eighth research supercomputing cluster in as many years, gets off to a running start
If Kim Hoogewind is an indication, Purdue’s latest research supercomputer is going to be busy. The doctoral student was simulating future severe weather patterns on part of the supercomputer, named Rice, before all of it was even unboxed. More than 1...
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Fast and furious: Purdue building its newest research supercomputer in less than a day
More than 100 staff members and volunteers will build Purdue’s’s latest high-performance computing cluster in a fast and furious race with the clock Friday, May 8, that should culminate in the machine running science computations by afternoon. It wil...
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DiaGrid helps advance biomedical imaging for understanding and treating cancer and other diseases
Purdue’s DiaGrid hub is helping advance a biomedical imaging technique capable of precisely capturing mechanical properties of bodily tissue, which could improve diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer and other diseases. DiaGrid now houses a Web-ba...
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Purdue's new research supercomputer designed to fit a variety of computational needs
Purdue’s latest Community Cluster Program research supercomputer offers faculty and campus units more than just one big community in which to settle their research computations. The new community cluster has neighborhoods, too. Need big memory? There...
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Research Data Depot makes moving video for psychology research easy
Joel Sprunger, a Purdue doctoral student in clinical psychology, had a problem — a whole lot of video to move from Indianapolis to Purdue and to Georgia State University, where he and his collaborators on a research project are looking at the mechani...
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Arif Khan isn’t just using Purdue’s Conte cluster supercomputer and its Intel Xeon Phi accelerators to develop better ways to find a needle in a haystack. He’s making it easier and much faster to find the best needles in a stack of needles. Khan is a...
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ThinLinc lets Purdue researchers access community clusters from almost anywhere
When Purdue Professor Michael Grant found himself in Ohio with nothing but a 4G LTE cellular connection to get back to campus, his research employing Purdue’s community cluster supercomputers did not grind to a halt. Grant fired up a piece of softwar...