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Visualizations of Nuclear Pasta

The Advanced Visualization Lab worked with IU Department of Physics professor Charles Horowitz to create visualizations of nuclear pasta, an extremely dense substance formed when dying stars explode in supernovae and collapse into neutron stars.

Big Red II Open House and UITS Research Technologies (RT) Fair

Miss the dedication of Big Red II? Take advantage of personal tours and consult with UITS RT staff.

Visualizing globular star cluster formation and dynamic evolution

The Advanced Visualization Lab worked with IU Department of Astronomy professor Enrico Vesperini to create visualizations of globular star cluster formation and dynamical evolution.

IU Experts Play Key Role in NASA's Operation IceBridge

NASA's Operation IceBridge mission wraps up its spring flight season this week, gathering radar data about Earth's polar ice sheets to help scientists better understand global climate change. Experts from Indiana University have once again played a key role in the mission's success.

Big Day for Big Red

Vice President Brad Wheeler talks to Gerry Dick of Inside INdiana Business about the impact that the Big Red II supercomputer will have on the state of Indiana. Wheeler will be featured on the Inside INdiana Business Television Sunday, April 28.

Rockhopper POD Cluster Beats Amazon

Users benefit from the availability of on-demand cycles on a real HPC cluster at a lower price point than less-performant virtualized offerings, such as Amazon's EC2 cloud.

IU’s new supercomputer can do in a second what would take you 31 million years

Craig Stewart, PTI Executive Director, talks about the possibility of IU’s Big Red II supercomputer being among the 50 fastest supercomputers in the world.

Big Red II Pre-Launch Workshop

The launch day for Indiana University's newest and fastest supercomputer, Big Red II, is fast approaching. We are conducting a day-long workshop to showcase the utility and capability of Big Red II on April 9th to users at IU.

Registration Open for 2013 Open Science Grid All Hands Meeting

The OSG Operations Center and Indiana University will be hosting the annual OSG All Hands Meeting on the week of March 11th on the downtown Indianapolis campus of IUPUI.

Indiana University collaborates with SPEC on new HPC benchmark

Indiana University recently partnered with Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) to create an updated benchmark for measuring performance using applications based on the OpenMP 3.1 standard for shared-memory parallel processing. The benchmark, SPEC OMP2012, is released officially by SPEC’s high-performance group (HPG).