Science Highlights
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WHPC event highlights the importance of women in STEM
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently hosted a presentation surrounding Rebecca Sharples’s Doctor of Education (Ed.D) dissertation, which was inspired by the remarkable life journey of Suzanna Gardner, the Senior Research...
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20-year birthday celebration for the Envision Center
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Envision Center, a group dedicated to assisting, supporting, and collaborating with faculty, students, and industry in scientific visualization, virtu...
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Envision Center showcases innovation at recent campus events
Festival of Teaching and Learning On the afternoon of April 12th, 2024, the Envision Center took part in Purdue University’s Festival of Teaching and Learning, hosted by the Blue Sky Teaching and Learning Laboratory. The festival was held to celebrat...
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Envision Center hosts annual student presentation event
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Envision Center will host a student presentation event on Thursday, April 25 from 1-2:30 pm for the center’s students to share their work in a series of lightning talks. Vaughn Valentino, a junior dou...
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Anvil assists in AI research to help boost pedestrian infrastructure
Researchers from Purdue University used the Anvil supercomputer in their quest to automate sidewalk identification from Google Street View images and develop sidewalk maps for neighborhoods using computer vision techniques. Omar Faruqe Hamim is a Gra...
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Purdue’s Women in HPC hosts presentation
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group is hosting a presentation on April 26 from 12-1:30 p.m. at the Envision Center. The presentation will focus on Rebecca Sharples’s Doctor of Education (Ed.D) dissertation, which was inspired by...
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Envision Center to celebrate its 20-year anniversary with a day of events
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Purdue’s Envision Center, and on April 17th, the center will host a day of events to celebrate the occasion. Quick Look -Open House, 4/17/24, 10 a.m. until 12 p.m.—The Envision Center will commemorate its 20th...
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Women in HPC sponsors student attendance at Game Developers Conference
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently sponsored an undergraduate student’s attendance at the 2024 Game Developers Conference (GDC), part of a new scholarship program that has also seen students attend the Grace Hopper Cel...
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A team led by Purdue researchers has used the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s community clusters for a groundbreaking catalyst research and design paper recently published in Nature. Jeffrey Greeley, the Charles and Nancy Davidson Profe...
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Anvil supercomputer used to advance knowledge of nanotechnology
A researcher from Duke University is using Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to study and explore the underlying physics of a nanotechnology known as DNA Origami. Pranav Sharma is an Associate Researcher in the Biological and Soft Materials Modeling Lab a...
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Envision Center develops VR incident response and recovery training in FEMA-funded project
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s Envision Center has collaborated with a team at Purdue and Texas A&M’s Engineering Extension Service to develop virtual reality (VR)-based trainings to help public safety officials better respond to cyber...
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RCAC and Purdue’s Women in HPC assist with inaugural InnovateHer Hackathon
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) and Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently participated in the inaugural InnovateHer Hackathon, a weekend-long event at Purdue University aimed at fostering inclusivity in the...
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Purdue professor uses RCAC community clusters for weather simulation research
A Purdue professor is using the impressive capabilities of Purdue's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) clusters to advance severe weather research. Daniel Dawson, an associate professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences, conducts...
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80 NVIDIA A100 GPUs recently added to Gilbreth community cluster
After expanding the Gilbreth community cluster’s GPU nodes in 2022 and yet again last year, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has once again added even more GPUs to the Gilbreth cluster to meet demand from the Purdue community. With the...
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New GLASSNET tools on MyGeoHub advance international, interdisciplinary research
Two new climate, land-use, and agricultural data tools developed by GLASSNET team members have recently been added to the online platform MyGeoHub (mygeohub.org), allowing researchers across domains to easily access the data they need to assess progr...
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Gilbreth cluster storage capacity doubled to meet the needs of AI researchers
Recognizing the need for faster and larger storage capacity in emerging areas of science, Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has recently doubled the storage capacity in Gilbreth, its community cluster that is optimized for communiti...
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Purdue Women in HPC hosts workshop on gender stereotypes, bias
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group, which is part of a broader engagement initiative by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) and led by RCAC staff members Katy Gunderson and Amanda Hassenplug, hosted a workshop on Feb...
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Anvil helps undergraduates gain real-world HPC experience
Five students from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I) took part in a semester-long research experience program to gain practical knowledge on data analytics and statistical research using common computing HPC resources. Daniel Ries,...
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Anvil helps develop new SARS-CoV-2 therapy
A research team from Delaware State University used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to computationally design a new pan-coronavirus therapy that is resistant to mutational changes. Dr. Mohammad Shahidul Islam, a former assistant professor in the Departm...
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RCAC cluster Negishi powers study of additively manufactured materials
Researchers at Purdue are studying the behavior of additively manufactured (otherwise known as 3D-printed) materials, thanks to the powerful capabilities offered by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Negishi cluster. Krzysztof Szymon St...