Anvil
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Anvil REU Student presents at GOOD 2025
Richie Tan, one of the participants of the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) 2024 Anvil Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer program, recently presented at the Global Open OnDemand 2025 Conference (GOOD 2025). Tan highlighte...
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Power outage impacting multiple clusters
Due to a campus-wide power outage, the Anvil, Negishi, Rowdy, and Scholar clusters experienced an unscheduled reboot at Friday, April 4th, 2025 at 8:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the impacted nodes and bringing services back online. If...
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Marina License Server Maintenance
Purdue IT's Marina license server will be unavailable on Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 from 7:00am EDT to 9:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo an operating system upgrade. Licenses hosted on Marina will be una...
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RCAC sponsors two successful hackathons
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has had a busy start to the new year. From delivering top-notch HPC (high-performance computing) training events, giving presentations at different campuses and national meetings, and hosting demonstrati...
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Anvil AI now available for allocations through NAIRR
Researchers nationwide can now request access to the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) new national artificial intelligence (AI) resource, Anvil AI. Purdue University's powerful national HPC-resource, the Anvil supercomputer, recently rece...
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Researcher uses Anvil to improve wind farm power prediction
A researcher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to help create more accurate Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models for offshore wind farms. Better model predictions can lead to a slew of benefit...
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We have noticed a discrepancy in the allocation usage after the outage, so you may see incorrect usage for your allocation(s) from mybalance. Our engineers are woking on the fix. Job scheduling will NOT be impacted. We will provide an update by 5:00p...
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RCAC to be official sponsor of BoilerMake XII
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce their role as an official sponsor of the upcoming BoilerMake XII. BoilerMake is Purdue University’s premier hackathon, inviting undergraduate students from across the nation to joi...
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Purdue University’s powerful supercomputer, Anvil, recently received a major upgrade, thanks to funding provided by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) NAIRR Pilot Program. The new expansion has been installed and is now ready for use. With this...
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The Anvil cluster began experiencing issues with electrical power around 2:30 PM EST. RCAC engineers are working with Purdue electricians to safely restore power. Anvil is operating at reduced capacity while a handful of nodes were shut down as a pre...
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Researchers from the University of Wisconsin (UW)–Madison used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to study turbulence and turbulent transport in astrophysical plasmas. This research seeks to elucidate the fundamental physics of turbulence, which will have...
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Anvil Cluster Open Ondemand Maintenance - Jan 17
Update: the maintenance has been postponed to Friday Januany 17, 2025 The Open Ondemand service for Anvil will be unavailable from Friday, January 17 at 9:00am EDT, 2025 to Friday, January 17 at 5:00pm EDT, 2025. During the maintenance, Anvil team wi...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 12:00am EST on Monday, December 23rd, 2024, and will resume normal business hours on Thursday, January 2nd, 2025. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Industrial Engineering students present their RCAC Capstone Project
Six students from the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering recently completed their senior capstone project, which focused on helping to predict and reduce downtimes for RCAC’s computing systems. The group worked toward creating a predictive-ma...
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Staff Availability and Coffee-Hour Schedule
Research Computing personnel, including a significant number of the support staff, will be attending the SC24 conference on the week of November 18th. There are no planned reductions in service and staff will continue to monitor the ticketing system...
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RCAC successfully hosts third Anvil REU Summer program
Over the summer, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) hosted its third annual 11-week hands-on internship, the Anvil Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer 2024 program. Eight students from across the nation gathered at Purdue’...
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The Anvil system will be unavailable from Monday, October 21st at 7:00am to Tuesday, October 22nd at 6:00pm EDT, 2024 for scheduled maintenance. During the maintenance, we will perform cooling work for the system to integrate a new NSF funded AI res...
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NAIRR Pilot proves to be successful in delivering resources to AI researchers
Earlier this year, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot to demonstrate the NAIRR concept and advance its primary goals of spurring innovation, increasing diversity of tale...
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Campus power outage affecting multiple clusters
Shortly before 9:00AM eastern time, many RCAC clusters experienced a power interruption which interrupted some work due to a campus power outage. UPDATE: Engineers have arrived on campus and found additional impacts from today's power interruption. S...
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High school student learns HPC with Anvil
Last Spring, under the guidance of PhD student Anastasia Neuman, a high schooler completed her senior capstone project by conducting research utilizing Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer. The pair used Anvil to run simulations elucidating the th...