Article #908: New Halstead research supercomputing cluster ready for use by Purdue faculty
ITaP has built Purdue’s ninth research supercomputing system in as many years through the Community Cluster program, which gives Purdue researchers th...
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Article #909: SafeRx database enables large-scale study of prescription medication safety
When you walk away from your doctor’s office with a prescription in hand, you may think your problem has been solved – but a new set of health issues...
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Article #905: DataCenterHub addresses challenges with preserving, sharing research data
All too familiar with the phrase “publish or perish,” researchers aren’t shy about sharing their results with colleagues, but they often don’t effecti...
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Article #895: Purdue Libraries, ITaP collaborate on guide to data storage options at Purdue
Faculty and staff from the Purdue University Libraries and ITaP have compiled a user guide highlighting the different data storage options available t...
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Article #879: Purdue part of program to expand XSEDE, the NSF’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment
Purdue is one of 19 partner institutions awarded a $110 million, five-year National Science Foundation grant to build on and expand the Extreme Scienc...
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Article #856: Student supercomputing team from Purdue, Colorado competes in Germany
When the time came to write and compile a computer program for his first-year engineering class, Austyn Cousins didn’t, unlike a lot of freshman, stru...
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Article #842: Partnership between Purdue physicists and ITaP will help make science of the data deluge from a more powerful Large Hadron Collider
Dark matter is worse than Big Foot. It’s big, in theory making up about a quarter of the universe versus just 5 percent for “normal” matter. But unlik...
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Article #839: Revealing the secrets of Zika virus only the latest breakthrough enabled by Purdue’s community clusters
When the Zika virus became a global health crisis in early 2016, Purdue researchers were well prepared to make a breakthrough discovery in efforts to...
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Article #832: Snyder cluster a key tool in research looking at why eyesight weakens with aging
Vikki Weake’s lab has its eyes on genes involved in sight — and sight’s deterioration with aging — research that might lead to new ways of prolonging...
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Article #829: Rice cluster an essential tool for professor’s drug discovery research
Chemical compounds that bind to a protein in treating one disease are likely to bind to similar proteins — and potentially to be useful for treating o...
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Article #824: Simulations on Rice cluster show tiny marine organisms can influence mixing where they concentrate in large numbers
Complex systems like oceans are driven by myriad factors and interactions that need to be understood in order to better understand the whole. In the c...
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Article #814: Life science use of community clusters experiencing significant growth
Vikki Weake’s lab has its eyes on genes involved in sight — and sight’s deterioration with aging — research that might lead to new ways of prolonging...
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Article #805: New imaging technology developed using Rice cluster could make images from CT scans better, faster
Sharper images to aid diagnoses from medical scans that also can be generated faster, making them less expensive and exposing patients to lower doses...
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Article #779: New Rice community cluster research supercomputer ready for faculty
Carlo Scalo’s research relies on large-scale computer simulations to support modeling and fundamental investigations of complex fluid dynamic systems...
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Article #775: Purdue supercomputer usage and failure data research could make supercomputers even more super
Purdue’s Community Cluster Program supercomputers are used by campus researchers to look at everything from the molecular machinery of viruses to the...
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Article #770: Purdue again leads the nation in supercomputing systems for campus research
Severe thunderstorms and the potential for tornadoes are a fact of life in Indiana, at Purdue no less than the rest of the state. Dan Dawson wants to...
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Article #766: Student supercomputing team from Purdue, Colombia aims for super performance in Germany
Purdue computer science major Emma Wynne has spent a lot of time writing programs for her classes, but not so much on the hardware where those program...
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Article #757: Rice, Purdue's eighth research supercomputing cluster in as many years, gets off to a running start
If Kim Hoogewind is an indication, Purdue’s latest research supercomputer is going to be busy. The doctoral student was simulating future severe weath...
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Article #756: Fast and furious: Purdue building its newest research supercomputer in less than a day
More than 100 staff members and volunteers will build Purdue’s’s latest high-performance computing cluster in a fast and furious race with the clock F...
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Article #754: DiaGrid helps advance biomedical imaging for understanding and treating cancer and other diseases
Purdue’s DiaGrid hub is helping advance a biomedical imaging technique capable of precisely capturing mechanical properties of bodily tissue, which co...