Rosen Center for Advanced Computing

Anvil

Purdue University is the home of Anvil, a powerful new supercomputer that provides advanced computing capabilities to support a wide range of computational and data-intensive research, from traditional high-performance computing to modern artificial intelligence applications. The name "Anvil" reflects the Purdue Boilermakers' strength and dedicated focus on producing results.

 

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Scientific Highlights

  • Anvil to support upcoming BigCARE 2024 Summer Workshop

    The 2024 BigCARE Summer Workshop is soon to commence at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). This year will be UCI’s first time hosting the summer workshop, with the university opening its doors from July 14-26 for all cancer researchers to come and learn. The two-week intensive workshop aims...

  • RCAC participates in the Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium annual meeting

    Suzanna Gardner, Senior Research Operations Administrator of Outreach and Engagement for the Anvil supercomputer at RCAC, and Laura Theademan, Director of Center Operations and Visualization at RCAC, recently presented at the 2024 Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) Annual Meet...

  • Anvil enters year three of production

    Anvil, Purdue’s most powerful supercomputer, continues its pursuit of excellence in HPC as it enters its third year of operations. Funded by a $10 million acquisition grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Anvil began early user operations in November 2021 and entered production operation...

  • Anvil helps researchers simulate and predict gravitational waves

    Scientists from the collaborative Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) research group are using Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to explore the physics of cataclysmic space-time events and help shed light on the nature of one of the Universe’s fundamental forces: gravity. Vijay Varma, Assistant Professor...

  • RCAC student employee successfully defends Master’s Thesis

    Yiqing Qu, a Graduate Research Assistant at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), recently obtained her Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Information and Technology. Her MS thesis was related to the work she conducted at RCAC, which ensured that there is a way to measure and improv...

  • RCAC hosts outreach event for local high schoolers

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted an outreach activity for the Southport High School Engineering, Computer Science, and Robotics students and the school’s Girls Who Code group. During the event, the high schoolers learned about the Anvil supercomputer as well as RCAC’s E...

  • Anvil supercomputer slated to assist with national pilot project aimed at advancing AI

    Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer is now an official resource provider for the newly launched National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot. The NAIRR is a National Science Foundation (NSF) project aimed at creating a national infrastructure that connects U.S. researchers to...

  • Anvil assists in AI research to help boost pedestrian infrastructure

    Researchers from Purdue University used the Anvil supercomputer in their quest to automate sidewalk identification from Google Street View images and develop sidewalk maps for neighborhoods using computer vision techniques. Omar Faruqe Hamim is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Lyles School of Ci...

  • Anvil supercomputer used to advance knowledge of nanotechnology

    A researcher from Duke University is using Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to study and explore the underlying physics of a nanotechnology known as DNA Origami. Pranav Sharma is an Associate Researcher in the Biological and Soft Materials Modeling Lab at Duke University. He is using Anvil to develop an...

  • RCAC and Purdue’s Women in HPC assist with inaugural InnovateHer Hackathon

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) and Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently participated in the inaugural InnovateHer Hackathon, a weekend-long event at Purdue University aimed at fostering inclusivity in the field of technology. InnovateHer was a 36-hour lo...

  • Anvil helps undergraduates gain real-world HPC experience

    Five students from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I) took part in a semester-long research experience program to gain practical knowledge on data analytics and statistical research using common computing HPC resources. Daniel Ries, a Principal Data Scientist at Sandia National Lab...

  • Anvil helps develop new SARS-CoV-2 therapy

    A research team from Delaware State University used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to computationally design a new pan-coronavirus therapy that is resistant to mutational changes. Dr. Mohammad Shahidul Islam, a former assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Chi...

  • Anvil helps researchers study land-atmosphere interaction processes

    A research group from Columbia University has utilized Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to run computational fluid dynamics simulations in order to learn more about atmospheric turbulence and the interactions between land surfaces and the atmosphere. Dr. Marco Giometto is an Assistant Professor in the C...

  • Competitors on the court, colleagues in computing

    High-performance computing (HPC) is booming in the state of Indiana. Two of the nation’s top National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded supercomputers reside on campuses within the state: Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer, located in West Lafayette, and Indiana University’s (IU) Jetstream2 syste...

  • Researchers use Anvil supercomputer to study instabilities in polymers

    Scientists from the Material Research and Innovation Laboratory (MRAIL) at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville used the Anvil supercomputer to obtain a deeper understanding of the Flow-induced structural instabilities of polymers and polymer dynamics. Dr. Mahdi Boudaghi, Dr. Brian Edwards, and Dr....

  • Exploratory Series: Archaeology and HPC

    Running from boulders, jumping across chasms, defeating villains while simultaneously finding ancient and mysterious artifacts—this is archaeology. Except, that’s not quite true. These are common misconceptions people tend to have about the field, and they can drive any hard-working archaeologist in...

  • Anvil REU Summer 2023 program is a tremendous success

    After 11 weeks of hard work and hands-on education, the Anvil Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer 2023 program has come to a close. This year’s Anvil REU program saw five students from across the nation gather at Purdue’s campus in West Lafayette, Indiana, to learn about high-perform...

  • Introducing CryoSPARC: Anvil’s powerful new software aimed at bioscience research

    The Anvil supercomputer has recently received a full integration of CryoSPARC, a state-of-the-art HPC software solution designed to enable the complete processing of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data. With this new addition to an already extensive software catalog, Anvil is no...

  • Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer helps researchers look at the origins of the universe

    A long time ago, before there were galaxies far, far away, there was an explosion of unimaginable proportions. Everything that ever has and ever will exist in the universe was compressed within a single point, and for reasons unknown, that point exploded—an event called the Big Bang—creating matter...

  • Anvil REU Student Lands Cybersecurity Role

    MaKayla McCartan is an undergraduate student at Purdue University, where she majors in cybersecurity and minors in both sociology and organizational leadership. McCartan was a participant in the 2022 Anvil REU program, and has recently accepted an internship at Grant Thornton, a globally known tax,...

Anvil is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2005632.