Article #986: New version of ITaP's Scholar cluster powers meteorology classes
Learning scientific computing for the first time can be challenging enough, without the additional hurdles of installing and configuring the necessary...
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Article #979: Envision Center lets moon walker Buzz Aldrin explore Mars without even leaving Earth
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, has now explored Mars too – using a virtual reality simulation developed by ITaP’s Envision Center in...
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Article #978: Retired Carter cluster was nation’s fastest campus supercomputer
Purdue’s recently retired Carter community cluster will be remembered as a powerful supercomputer that could handle computationally-intensive applicat...
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Article #970: Virtual reality video game developed by chemistry professor, Envision Center and students opens up drug discovery to non-scientists
Thanks to Purdue professor Gaurav Chopra, the next major breakthrough in the fight against cancer or Alzheimer’s may come from a teenager playing a vi...
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Article #966: Purdue’s community cluster supercomputers propel Hyperloop team’s success
Hurtling through a depressurized tube at a speed of 750 miles per hour may sound like science fiction, but – thanks to an idea by billionaire SpaceX f...
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Article #960: Supercomputer, Purdue assistance puts Colombia on fast track to designing new HIV drugs, science and engineering discovery
Colombian researchers are helping design new drugs for treating HIV using a supercomputer built in a partnership between the Universidad EAFIT in Mede...
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Article #953: Halstead cluster is aeronautics professor’s 21st century wind tunnel
Jonathan Poggie's high-speed fluid mechanics research aims to make supersonic flight more efficient, but he doesn't need a physical wind tunnel to tes...
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Article #952: Professor succeeds in protein modeling competitions using Purdue’s community clusters
The basketball court isn’t the only place that Purdue has been winning lately. Using the Carter and Rice community cluster supercomputers operated by...
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Article #950: Envision Center projects showcased for President Daniels
Purdue President Mitch Daniels’ job certainly offers diverse experiences, like stepping inside the human body and docking drug molecules to proteins....
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Article #945: Professor teaches big data analysis using new, interactive version of ITaP’s Scholar cluster
You might not expect a 7:30 a.m. class to be lively and well-attended, but Mark Daniel Ward packed students into his classroom at that hour last semes...
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Article #939: Purdue students gain hands-on experience with virtual reality at Envision Center
Purdue student employees at ITaP’s Envision Center are working with cutting-edge technology to build virtual reality simulations and data visualizatio...
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Article #936: Coffee Break Consultations help Purdue faculty, students use research computing resources
As part of her research at Purdue’s Intelligent Infrastructure Systems Laboratory, Alana Wilbee creates fragility curves that indicate how likely a bu...
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Article #932: Botanical Society, HUBzero partner on PlantingScience.org, an online community for high school student researchers
An online mentoring community that connects plant scientists with secondary school students to work on student-designed research projects found the to...
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Article #927: New Halstead research supercomputer enables groundbreaking Indiana climate study
Researchers from the Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC) are using ITaP’s new Halstead research supercomputer to develop high-resolution mod...
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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...