Draft:Rosen Center for Advanced Computing

The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) at Purdue University, is an advanced research computing center offering high-performance computing (HPC) and research data storage resources to both researchers at the university and the national research community through the ACCESS program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The center is named in honor of Saul Rosen (February 8, 1922 – June 9, 1991), an American computer science pioneer and notable charter faculty member in the Computer Science Department, the first such department in the nation. Prior to the formation of RCAC, there was the Purdue University Computing Center (PUCC), where Professor Rosen remained director until 1968.

List of Top500 Systems
While the center has a history of building new systems every fiscal year, here is a short list including notable Top500 clusters built at Purdue University over the years.


 * Conte – Built in 2013, Conte reached #29 on the Top500 list.
 * Anvil – Built in 2022, Anvil reached #143 on the Top500 list.