RCAC @ Purdue

The Purdue WHPC chapter recently hosted a workshop and panel discussion titled “Women in HPC Presents: Intersectional Voices on Double Standards and Belonging,” that delved into how double standards and bias shape belonging in computing and HPC. ➡️ rcac.purdue.edu/news/7641

Join us for an In-Person StreamCI Spring Workshop, on April 17th at Purdue. Featuring:  • An overview of StreamCI  • A live platform demo  • Faculty research use cases  • Opportunities for collaboration To learn more and register, please visit: cyberfaces.org/learn/course/3…

Join us on March 20th at 11 AM EST for the fourth presentation in our Spring 2026 Midwest Bioinformatics Showcase. Feihong Xu, from Northwestern University, will be giving her presentation, “To what extent do deep neural networks learn the same thing?”. midwestbioinformatics.org

Join us March 24th for the fifth session of our 2026 Bioinformatics workshops, Genomics Exchange: Running bioinformatics programs on RCAC. This workshop is for Researchers and students who want to run bioinformatics software efficiently on RCAC clusters. rcac.purdue.edu/news/7565

The Institute for Physical AI, along with RCAC, is organizing the Purdue AI Research Showcase. Join us on April 14th - 15th for a campus-wide event bringing together AI experts, practitioners, and learners to showcase the groundbreaking work at Purdue. rcac.purdue.edu/showcase

Pegasus, an NSF-funded scientific workflow management system, is now available on Purdue's Anvil supercomputer. With Pegasus, Anvil users can define, manage, and execute complex, multi-step computational tasks with ease through a web-based interface. rcac.purdue.edu/news/7628

Join us 3/13 at 11 for the 3rd presentation in our Spring 2026 Midwest Bioinformatics Showcase to hear Purba Mandal, who will be speaking about Mitochondrial bioenergetic signatures differentiate asymptomatic from symptomatic Alzheimer's disease. midwestbioinformatics.org

RCAC is inspiring future innovators in Computing through Environmental Tech and Cybersecurity Camps. The camps are, Code Explorers: Coding and AI, June 21 - June 26, and CyberSafe Heroes, July 12 - July 17. No prior programming experience is required. purdue.edu/summer-high-sc…

Congrats Chimdia Kabuo, whose abstract for a talk at the 2026 Improving Scientific Software Conference has been accepted for inclusion in the program! His abstract is titled “Documentation as Infrastructure: A Practical Framework for Sustainable Scientific Software.” Great job!

Join us, March 6th at 11 AM EST for the second presentation in our Spring 2026 Midwest Bioinformatics Showcase. Jong Yoon Jeon, a PhD candidate in Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University, will be speaking about short-read pangenomes and their midwestbioinformatics.org

Don’t miss your opportunity to register for the March 6th Women in HPC workshop “Intersectional Voices on Double Standards and Belonging”, exploring how double standards and bias shape belonging in computing and HPC. Please register here purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cZ…

A research group from Purdue University used the Anvil supercomputer to compete in NASA's Beyond the Algorithm Challenge, a nationwide competition aimed at improving flood analysis with emerging technologies. Click here to learn more! rcac.purdue.edu/news/7619

CALLING ALL PURDUE RESEARCHERS! During the Purdue AI Research Showcase, IPAI and RCAC will be hosting a poster session, “AI research and applications across Purdue—new models, systems, and interdisciplinary breakthroughs solving real‑world challenges”. rcac.purdue.edu/news/7618

Paridha Talmale is a Master’s student at Purdue, majoring in Engineering Management. Last October, thanks to assistance from a WHPC scholarship, Talmale attended WE25, an annual international conference hosted by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). rcac.purdue.edu/news/7615

Check out this month’s RCAC Student Spotlight! Meet Nathan Whitacre, a Senior who is majoring in Computer Science. Nathan is a Student Programmer at RCAC. Click here to learn more about Nathan and his work at RCAC! rcac.purdue.edu/news/7614

Join us 2/24 for the 3rd session of our 2026 Bioinformatics workshops Genomics Exchange: R skills for biological data. Designed for Life science researchers and students who want to use R more effectively for data manipulation, analysis, & visualization. rcac.purdue.edu/news/7565

Congratulations to our CollabXR program and Amy Nagle, Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, for being awarded “Best Innovation Award” at the 2026 IMSH nursing conference! Great job to Dr. Nagle and the Collab XR team! To learn more envision.center/collabxr

Have you heard about our RSE Center? We provide end-to-end research software support, from early proposal design and data engineering to development, deployment, visualization, and long-term sustainability. Have a research project or idea. Please visit: rcac.purdue.edu/rse

Join us on February 12th for Structured Outputs & Evaluation Pipelines. This training focuses on building reliable and scalable LLM applications. To learn more and register, please visit: rcac.purdue.edu/news/7565

It was great to have the BA in AI students take a tour of the Data Center and the Envision Center! Seeing the supercomputers up close and experiencing the CollabXR platform is always exciting for those that have never visited our facilities.