Research Technology

The Indiana Initiative for Economic Development (IIED) is an economic development program which makes advanced computing technology and expertise available at no cost to companies whose proposals advance the Indiana economy. The Initiative is a partnership among IBM, Indiana University, Purdue University, and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC).
The mission of the High Performance Applications group is to help promote scholarly research through the use of high performance computing and communication environments. A sampling of HPA activities include: user support for IU faculty, staff and students who want to get started using our supercomputers, longer term 1-on-1 consulting, support for our NSF TeraGrid users, benchmarking new or upgraded systems, and (in the future) developing services that hide the complexity of using high performance applications.
A Web platform that allows scientists to share research modeling tools, presentations and experimental findings is the focus of a new partnership between Purdue and Indiana universities.
Purdue is launching the consortium for joint development of the platform, called HUBzero. Indiana University is the consortium's first new member. The HUBzero consortium is expected to attract universities from across North America in the coming months.
HUBzero provides a way to host simulation tools and other educational and research resources, making them as effortless to access as a Web page. It also gives researchers immediate access to national supercomputing resources via the TeraGrid.