Science Highlights
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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...
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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 for an even more intriguing destination — his future. Kroeger is part of the six-member combined Purdu...
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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 research that could contribute to development of quantum computers exponentially more capable than today’s...
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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 nanotechnology website which seemed to have everything he and his colleagues wanted. It could do things...
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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 and other Internet bad guys. To do it, Cleveland, Purdue’s Shanti S. Gupta Professor of Statistics,...
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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 logistical challenge and a bit dicey from a safety perspective. But Robert Connor, associate professor of ci...
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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, in part because ITaP is now filling a portion of the lab’s server and data storage needs. The one-h...
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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 stages of the disease and how to treat it. Aggregated internationally, however, there are enough cases...
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Pat Zollner and his students have golden eagles, butterflies, bats, herons, flying squirrels, chipmunks, martens and raccoons wandering around at Purdue but you needn’t worry about the University being overrun. The insects, birds and mammals are safe...
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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 much we don’t know about the batteries' inner workings, especially at the molecular or atomic scales...
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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 administration, not so much under President Obama — state and even international policymakers. The progra...
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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 combustion, a chemical process by which fuel ignites to provide the oomph to move the vehicle forward....
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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 people charged with ensuring the weapons' reliability, in storage as well as in use. Electrical and c...
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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 surge and neighborhoods with a lot of elderly residents to leave first, followed by advisories to les...
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Research uses clusters to explore how biomimetic composite materials meet and greet
To the computer savvy, "interface" might bring to mind the way a computer operating system like Windows presents the world inside the machine to its users. Business types might hear interface and think of meeting to explore mutual interests...
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Airline cabin environment research could make the air up there better
"Contagion" is just a thriller of a movie but its premise - a deadly disease spread around the world by airline passengers - is no fiction, as experience with SARS and the H1N1 flu virus illustrate. That’s one reason Purdue mechanical engin...
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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 Earth. But scientists believe it was the soup of the day over the entire universe for a few microseconds...
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Silicon wire 4 atoms wide and 1 atom tall may be small, but it can carry a load
Like that little old ant with the rubber tree plant in the song, silicon wires just four atoms wide and an atom tall may be small, but they can carry a load. Purdue Professor Gerhard Klimeck's lab helped a team from the University of New South Wales...