Article #709: Team of Purdue and Colombian students share a common language - supercomputing
Student supercomputing competitions have taken Kurt Kroeger to Salt Lake City, Leipzig, Germany, and now New Orleans, but they also have him headed fo...
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Article #693: Purdue, Globus partnership gives researchers an easy way to move big data to and from campus
Purdue doctoral student Archana Tankasala is studying electron interactions in few-electron systems involving 1.5 to 2 million atoms as part of resear...
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Article #692: National Cancer Informatics hub building a community to accelerate cancer research, discovery
In search of a platform to build a collaborative community of cancer informatics researchers, Ishwar Chandramouliswaran came across nanoHub.org, a nan...
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Article #691: Hadoop cluster now available for Purdue researchers analyzing big data
Professor William Cleveland and colleagues analyze terabytes of cybersecurity data looking for new ways to identify and combat spammers, data thieves...
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Article #683: Virtual environments will help engineering students learn how to inspect bridges
Hauling a classroom of engineering students to a busy highway bridge to teach them how to inspect for cracks, corrosion and other damage is a logistic...
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Article #669: Research computing coffee consultations can benefit would-be, new and experienced users
Dave Jacoby, a developer for Purdue’s Genomics Core Facility, has been a regular at the weekly meetups hosted by ITaP Research Computing (RCAC) staff,...
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Article #656: Round-the-world sound recording project for Earth Day gets help from Envision, ITaP
A project to record and create a library of sounds from around the world on Earth Day Tuesday, April 22, features a mobile application developed by IT...
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Article #642: Access to Carter cluster yields sunny forecast for atmospheric science students
Melissa Valentino, headed toward being a weather officer for the Air Force after graduation, knows the importance of computer modeling to her field so...
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Article #117: Data data everywhere, including HUBzero hubs, where it’s ready for researchers to put it to work
Thymic cancer is rare enough that one doctor, or even one hospital, never sees more than a few cases, making it difficult to better understand the sta...
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Article #116: Quantitative ecologist uses virtual animals to explore how changes in the environment influence their real-world counterparts
Pat Zollner and his students have golden eagles, butterflies, bats, herons, flying squirrels, chipmunks, martens and raccoons wandering around at Purd...
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Article #617: Geospatial data project will let almost anyone put almost anything on the map
Purdue researchers and ITaP are embarking on a $4.5 million, four-year project to create a powerful Web-based system that will allow researchers world...
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Article #115: Simulation sheds light on the very small details of battery life, enhances understanding of fuel cells and catalysis
Given the myriad uses we put lithium-ion batteries to — from the smartphones in our pockets to the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft — how...
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Article #114: Economic modeling with Carter cluster, DiaGrid offers empirically based guidance for policymakers
For about two decades voluntary pollution abatement programs have shifted in and out of popularity with national — popular in the George W. Bush admin...
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Article #113: Carter cluster aids in probing turbulent combustion in engines
Consider two vital processes that go on in your car engine. One is turbulence, a kind of chaotic, random flow involving fuel and air. The other is com...
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Article #108: Particle accelerator, supercomputing are revealing the universe’s original recipe
Quark-gluon plasma, formed at temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the center of the sun, is something you won’t find cooking in any kitchen on Eart...
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Article #570: Virtual environment makes Purdue’s real-life accessible biology wet lab available worldwide
Purdue faculty members and ITaP’s Envision Center for Data Perceptualization have developed a Web-enabled, 3-D virtual environment that recreates the...
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Article #566: Purdue researchers using SubmitR on DiaGrid to get results
Agricultural economics Professor Michael Delgado uses computationally demanding statistical models to study questions like the effectiveness of volunt...
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Article #564: PURR provides a campus hub for research data management
In January 2011, the National Science Foundation began requiring all grant proposals to include two-page plans that describe what data will be generat...
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Article #112: Research using DiaGrid and community clusters helps make computer systems we rely on more reliable
International treaties that ban detonating nuclear weapons for testing are generally viewed as a good thing, but it certainly creates challenges for p...
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Article #111: Agent-based models help identify path of least resistance in hurricane evacuations
Emergency managers would do well to consider staggering evacuations in a disaster like a hurricane, perhaps advising people living nearest the storm s...