Science Highlights
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RCAC’s HyperShell software decreases time to science for animal infectious disease researcher
One Purdue researcher is using an innovative piece of software developed by Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) staff to dramatically reduce the time he spends on computations. Jonathan Brooks, a postdoctoral research assistant in forestry and...
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Third generation of Data Depot Filesystem Storage Service is now online!
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce that its Data Depot Storage Service has received an upgrade and is available for researchers. This is the third generation of the Data Depot filesystem, which offers research group...
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Anvil supports BigCARE 2025 Summer Workshop
Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer recently supported the 2025 BigCARE Summer Workshop, a two-week course aimed at helping cancer researchers develop big data skills. This year’s workshop took place at the University of California, Irvine (UCI)....
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Purdue and IU joint team to compete in HPC student competition
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has teamed up with Indiana University’s (IU) Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) to support a team of students competing in IndySCC, a world-renowned supercomputing competition. The team—named “INp...
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HUBzero, the web-based software platform for scientific collaboration, has returned to Purdue University. The platform’s infrastructure is hosted on resources at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), and after a brief transition period, HUB...
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Fall 2025 CI Symposium hosted by RCAC
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted its Fall 2025 Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Symposium, the fifth successful CI Symposium put on by the organization. Held at the Hall for Discovery and Learning Research at Purdue’s West Lafay...
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RCAC hosts successful Anvil REU Summer 2025 program
Over the summer, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) hosted its annual 11-week hands-on internship, the Anvil Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer program. Eight students from across the nation gathered at Purdue’s campus in...
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RCAC hosts weekly series of bioinformatics and genomics discussions beginning January 17
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is hosting a new online series of weekly bioinformatics and genomics discussions. The series, Genomics Exchange, offers researchers, graduate students and others interested in genomics and computati...
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Purdue professor uses Bell Cluster to study college course shutouts
It’s a problem familiar to every college student – courses are oversubscribed, and you can’t get into a class you need to stay on track – or even worse, to graduate. Now a Purdue professor is using Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) supercomp...
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CollabXR advances education through successful pilot program
Purdue University’s Envision Center (EC) is ushering in the next generation of teaching and learning by leveraging their cutting-edge virtual reality platform, CollabXR. CollabXR is a shared learning platform that puts advanced visualizations at the...
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RCAC Student Spotlight: Augusto Butkewitsch
Name: Augusto Butkewitsch Year: Sophomore Major: Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics Position in RCAC: Programmer Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Augusto and I’m a programmer! What a...
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RCAC partners with faculty member on autism diagnostic tool
A new collaboration between the Rosen Center and Advanced Computing (RCAC) and a Purdue faculty member aims to make it easier to detect autism earlier and more accurately. Brandon Keehn, associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences a...
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Purdue awarded Western Digital storage to enable big data health research
Purdue University was recently awarded 1.2 Petabytes of hard disk drive (HDD) storage from Western Digital to further enable research that relies on quick access to big data repositories. This award, granted through Western Digital’s Petabyte Innovat...
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Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) uses liquid cooling of the servers in its data center to save 40% of the power compared to traditional cooling methods, increasing the sustainability of the data center and reducing the carbon footp...
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Anvil used to advance research on two-phase flows
Researchers from The George Washington University used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to simulate fluid flows in order to elucidate the physics of turbulent bubble entrainment. Understanding this process will lead to practical applications in a variety...
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Gautschi Support Hour now available for system users
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce special-purpose support and training times for Gautschi system users, the Gautschi Support Hour. Much like our Anvil Support Hour, the Gautschi Support Hour will be a designated, o...
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A nuclear engineering graduate student at Purdue has partnered with RCAC staff to use the Negishi cluster to refine and scale his model. Samuel Wyss, who recently graduated with his master’s degree in nuclear engineering under the supervision of Alle...
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Purdue to host 2025 GlobusWorld Tour Workshop
Purdue University’s Rosen Center of Advanced Computing (RCAC) is pleased to announce, in conjunction with GlobusWorld Tour, an all-day Globus workshop. Taking place on August 8, from 8:30 a.m. until 3:00 PM, the in-person workshop will cover a variet...
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Purdue receives $4 million NSF grant for StreamCI data streaming platform
Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is leading a major National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded to create an artificial intelligence (AI)-ready streaming data platform for researchers across domains. This new platfor...
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RCAC student improves Anvil supercomputer while obtaining Master’s degree
Vivek Karunai Kiri Ragavan, a Graduate Research Assistant at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), recently obtained his Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Information and Technology. His MS thesis was related to the work he conducte...