Supernova. Courtesy the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

Cosmos in a Box

The power of the newest generation of supercomputers is harnessed to tell us about the nature of the oldest stars.

How can a computer understand language as well as a child?

Words to the Wise

How can a computer understand language as well as a child?

Mind Bytes 2014: Robin Weiss and Simon Jacobs.

Big Data, Sleeping Worms, and an Electronic Chef

Mind Bytes 2014 was a great success! If you missed it, here's what happened.

The Dark Energy Survey's instruments will be located at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, but their data will be analyzed around the world using a program developed with RCC resources. Photograph by Reidar Hahn.

The Modular Universe

The Research Computing Center is helping the Dark Energy Survey make sense of the cosmos.

Enabling Research

Our department has helped enable the advancement of critical inquiry from the physical sciences to the social sciences to the humanities.
Data Visualization

RCC maintains data visualization resources including high-end graphics processing hardware, visualization software, and custom remote visualization tools.
Training & Education

The Research Computing Center offers training and workshops on a variety of topics relevant to research computing.
High Performance Computing

Midway, a professionally-managed high performance computing cluster, forms the core of RCC’s advanced computational infrastructure.

News

Planetarium show. Courtesy Mark SubbaRao.

March 2, 2015

Not Just for Starlight Anymore

An image recorded with the birefringence OpenPolScope displaying the retardance (brightness) and slow axis orientation (hue) of a 300 nm thick layer of calcite crystals. Courtesy Rudolf Oldenbourg.

February 18, 2015

Getting Light to Give Up its Secrets

Alyssa Goodman. Photo by Benjamin Recchie, RCC.

December 19, 2014

Paper and Glue, Pixels and Ink