Services

Community Clusters

Purchase access to world-class computational clusters at a fraction of the cost by joining in a Community Cluster. Dedicated HPC resources without wasting your researchers' time doing IT, and at lower prices from vendors thanks to the larger negotiating power of the community through Purdue IT. Ask us for a trial node!

Research Storage

Store, transfer, manipulate, and archive research data at all scales. Regardless of where your data is simulated or analyzed, Purdue IT provides a variety of research storage and data transfer resources. Scratch storage spaces for cluster users, and archival or Data Depot working storage are available to all Purdue researchers.

Research Data Networks

The Purdue Research Data Network is a high-speed network infrastructure designed to facilitate transfer of the large quantities of data produced by and analyzed on Purdue's high-performance computing systems.

GitHub & Version Control

Manage development of software, collaborate with your research teams, and track revisions of documents with the secure and self-managed GitHub Enterprise hosted by RCAC.

Partner on Research Proposals

The mission of RCAC staff is to support and advance research discoveries at Purdue through partnerships with faculty and research groups. Our research scientists collaborate with faculty on grant proposals and support them by providing cyberinfrastructure solutions to funded projects.

Software Development

Our staff have experience with many software languages and development environments. Bring in our expertise to help your researchers create or modify software to take advantage of the latest technology in advanced computation, web frameworks, data analysis, visualization, sharing, and management.

Data Management

As science has become more data-intensive, research data management is consuming more of researchers’ time. In the era of "big data", decisions regarding data are complex and fraught with larger consequences. Purdue Libraries data experts can help with managing, organizing, describing, and sharing your data on RCAC systems.

Education and Outreach

RCAC provides a variety of educational and outreach program to its community of researchers. From workshops on the basics of cluster computing to supporting the education of soon-to-be scientists and HPC professionals at Student Cluster Challenges on a national and international stage, RCAC provides the resources to educate future HPC professionals and scientists.

XSEDE

The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is an NSF-funded cyberinfrastructure linking the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated advanced computing resources and digital services to the open science community. Our team is happy to help you access and navigate the array of XSEDE resources and services.

REED+

REED+ is a managed research ecosystem with sufficient storage, high speed computing capability and security to efficiently and cost effectively handle Purdue’s control led research data and processing needs in a manner compliant with the highest level of cybersecurity applicable.

Data Science

RCAC offers physical infrastructure, expert staff, and education in support of the data science work of researchers, students, and the larger Integrative Data Science Initiative.