Cyberinfrastructure Day — a series of informational sessions covering research-computing services and cyberinfrastructure available to Purdue researchers in all fields — will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, in the Stewart Center.

The event, which includes lunch, is aimed at faculty, research scientists and graduate students, with hands-on sessions and case studies designed to assist current and potential users in accessing Purdue’s research computing resources and cyberinfrastructure. The keynote speaker is Mark Lundstrom, founding director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology and the Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Also during the morning, a faculty panel will discuss its use of cyberinfrastructure at Purdue and how ITaP supports research projects.

The afternoon will feature six breakout sessions covering such topics as:

·         ITaP’s community cluster, storage and cooperative hardware purchasing programs, which are designed to save researchers money and maximize the availability and use of high-performance computing resources.

·         Purdue’s Condor distributed computing pool and the DiaGrid network, which make tens of thousands of processors on and off campus available for high-throughput research computation.

·         Purdue’s partnership through ITaP in the National Science Foundation’s extensive TeraGrid cyberinfrastructure for research and education.

·         ITaP services for providing data visualization assistance, including animations and virtual reality.

·         Purdue-developed HUBzero, a web-based platform that makes it easy for researchers to connect with colleagues throughout the world and share ideas, tools, computational resources and data storage while satisfying funding agency grant requirements.

The event is sponsored by ITaP and ITaP’s research and discovery arm, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing. The Rosen Center’s staff of computing professionals and computer scientists specializes in supporting research and discovery through high-performance computing. The center provides access to leading-edge computational and data storage systems, as well as expertise in a broad range of high-end computing and data management activities.

Writer: Greg Kline, science and technology writer, ITaP, (765) 494-8167, gkline@purdue.edu

Last updated: Sept. 29, 2009

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