Science Highlights
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Anvil REU Summer 2023 program is a tremendous success
After 11 weeks of hard work and hands-on education, the Anvil Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer 2023 program has come to a close. This year’s Anvil REU program saw five students from across the nation gather at Purdue’s campus in We...
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Introducing CryoSPARC: Anvil’s powerful new software aimed at bioscience research
The Anvil supercomputer has recently received a full integration of CryoSPARC, a state-of-the-art HPC software solution designed to enable the complete processing of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data. With this new addition to...
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Purdue research team uses 100 RCAC GPUs to create urban representations of 330 US cities
In a multidisciplinary endeavor that has far-reaching implications for computer science, urban planning, digital urban forestry, ecological sciences, and related domains, a team led by Daniel Aliaga, associate professor of computer science, has lever...
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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 and lead workshops at the upcoming Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference held in Portland, Ore. from July 23-27, 2023. The PEARC conf...
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Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer helps researchers look at the origins of the universe
A long time ago, before there were galaxies far, far away, there was an explosion of unimaginable proportions. Everything that ever has and ever will exist in the universe was compressed within a single point, and for reasons unknown, that point expl...
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RCAC, College of Agriculture partner to reshape agriculture research
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has partnered with the College of Agriculture to develop cyberinfrastructure that better serves the computational and data management needs of agriculture researchers. The College of Agriculture’s A...
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Anvil REU Student Lands Cybersecurity Role
MaKayla McCartan is an undergraduate student at Purdue University, where she majors in cybersecurity and minors in both sociology and organizational leadership. McCartan was a participant in the 2022 Anvil REU program, and has recently accepted an in...
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RCAC supercomputers help Purdue professor unlock mysteries of mechanics and material chemistry
A Purdue researcher who studies material chemistry is using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) supercomputers to learn more about how materials behave in products like organic electronics and lithium-ion batteries. Kejie Zhao, professor...
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RCAC partners with Purdue faculty on NSF-funded cybertraining program
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is a partner on an $850,000 grant awarded to a team led by Venkatesh Merwade, professor of civil engineering, to create a cybertraining curriculum for climate, water and environmental (CWE) sustaina...
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Cancer researchers learn about big data analysis using Anvil
The BigCare 2023 Summer Workshop, an on-site program that utilized the Anvil supercomputer to help train cancer researchers on how to harness the power of big data, has recently concluded, and based on participant feedback, it was a huge success! The...
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Envision Center student event gives seniors a chance to showcase projects
The Envision Center's recent senior presentation event held on April 24 was a success and gave the center’s graduating seniors a chance to showcase their hard work and accomplishments. Attendees were able to hear from their peers about their project...
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Purdue’s Anvil Supercomputer Assists with COVID-19 Pandemic Response
A research group from the University of Virginia (UVA) utilized Purdue’s Anvil supercomputing cluster to help provide COVID-19 scenario modeling for local, state, federal, and university officials and departments. The team used computer models to pre...
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Negishi supercomputer now available for faculty use
The Purdue Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s latest research supercomputer, Negishi, is now available for faculty use. Negishi, which is optimized for traditional, tightly-coupled science and engineering applications, was built through a p...
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Research team using Anvil in hypersonics research
A team of researchers has been using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s powerful Anvil supercomputer to study gaseous jets in hypersonic crossflow, which is useful for understanding the operations of the systems that are used to steer a...
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Purdue's Anvil supercomputer enters second year of production
Anvil, Purdue’s most powerful supercomputer, is hammering out progress as it forges ahead into the second year of operations. Funded by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Anvil began early user operations in November 2021...
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Recent GPU expansions to Gilbreth cluster increase capacity by 46%
After significantly expanding GPU computing capabilities in fall 2022, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has added 104 new NVIDIA A100 GPUs to the Gilbreth community cluster. Based on Dell PowerEdge R7525 compute nodes with .5 TB of RAM,...
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RCAC hosts digital twin symposium featuring Purdue researchers, NVIDIA
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) held a symposium on digital twins at the Envision Center on April 11 featuring presentations from Purdue faculty and NVIDIA. A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical object that is used t...
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Anvil REU Program helps student achieve NASA internship
The Anvil summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program has once again proven invaluable for the students who participate in the hands-on learning experience. Lucas Snyder is an undergraduate student at Indiana University who studies In...
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Envision Center hosting senior presentations, anniversary open house on April 24
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Envision Center is hosting an event to showcase the work of their graduating seniors on Monday, April 24 from 1-2:30 pm. The seniors will present their work in a series of lightning talks. The Envision Center...
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Envision Center collaboration aims to make construction work safer
New technology developed by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Envision Center in collaboration with a Purdue professor aims to make construction environments safer by helping workers better assess risk and avoid judgment errors. Sogand Hasanz...