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...
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Article #110: 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 machin...
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Article #109: 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,...
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Article #107: 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...
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Article #106: Computational simulation opens a window on planet formation with a new view
Our Solar System formed about 4.5 billion years ago so it is a little late to watch Earth, Mars and their fellow planets coalescing out of the cloud o...
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Article #489: Shared licensing brings powerful data visualization tool to Purdue researchers
When entomology Professor Jeffrey Holland’s class wanted to find out how changing the size and increasing the isolation of a landscape affects its abi...
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Article #461: Virtual ICU created by faculty, ITaP partnership supports research and training
When a physician is treating a patient in an intensive care unit, nurses are more than partners. They’re also human safety checklists. Are the right m...
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Article #447: ITaP, faculty partnership looks at Lake Michigan in depth -- without anybody getting wet
ITaP data visualization specialists are helping provide some illuminating 3-D animations of environmental fluid mechanics processes affecting the Grea...
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Article #435: ITaP supercomputer is remote guest of honor at Iowa high-performance computing school
Moffett, ITaP’s SiCortex supercomputer, was the center of attention recently for students in the annual Iowa High Performance Computing (IHPC) Summer...
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Article #431: NASA, Purdue study offers recipe for global warming-free industrial materials
Let a bunch of fluorine atoms get together in the molecules of a chemical compound and they’re like a heavy metal band at a chamber music festival. Th...
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Article #430: Global warming could eventually make half the Earth's population centers too hot to handle
A study looking at global warming in terms of heat stress on humans, which also has application to other mammals, like pets and livestock, says half t...