Science Highlights
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Anvil enters year four of production
Anvil, one of Purdue’s most powerful supercomputers, continues its pursuit of excellence in HPC as it enters its fourth year of operations. Funded by a $10 million acquisition grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Anvil began early user o...
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Purdue professor in Indianapolis uses RCAC clusters to study materials, predict failures
Shengfeng Yang, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in Indianapolis, uses the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Negishi community cluster supercomputer to help with his research simulating complex materials. To see how failure...
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Women in HPC sponsors student attendance at cybersecurity conference
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently sponsored a graduate student's attendance at the Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS’25), held in Seattle last month. SOUPS brings together an interdisciplina...
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Anvil impact highlighted in National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot webinar
Dr. Haniye Kashgarani, a Senior AI Scientist at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), recently gave a presentation for the NAIRR Pilot Partner Series Webinar. Her presentation focused on how Anvil, one of Purdue University's most powerful s...
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Purdue RCAC partners with faculty on NSF-funded cybertraining platform, workshops
Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) chief scientist Carol Song has continued building on an NSF-funded project with a Purdue faculty team led by Venkatesh Merwade, professor of civil engineering, to create a cybertraining curriculum for climat...
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Anvil Open OnDemand Dashboard version 2 enters production
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has recently released the second version of their Anvil Open OnDemand (OOD) Dashboard. The Anvil OOD dashboard provides researchers who use the Anvil supercomputer with tools for user-friendly job accoun...
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RCAC Student Spotlight: Jacob Verburgt
Name: Jacob Verburgt Year: Grad Student Major: Biological Sciences and Statistics Position: Research Assistant Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Jacob and I’m a Research Assistant! What are some of y...
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Researchers use Anvil to create AI model for medical image diagnosis
Researchers from Arizona State University utilized the Anvil supercomputer to develop and deploy a fully open AI (artificial intelligence) foundation model for diagnosing diseases based on medical imaging. The new model, called Ark+, was recently pub...
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Envision Center collaboration helps students visualize effects of climate change
It’s one thing to hear statistics about how climate change and resulting sea level rise will impact our world, and it’s another thing entirely to step into an immersive virtual reality environment that lets you visualize those effects. That’s the pri...
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RCAC’s HyperShell software decreases time to science for animal infectious disease researcher
One Purdue researcher is using an innovative piece of software developed by Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) staff to dramatically reduce the time he spends on computations. Jonathan Brooks, a postdoctoral research assistant in forestry and...
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Third generation of Data Depot Filesystem Storage Service is now online!
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce that its Data Depot Storage Service has received an upgrade and is available for researchers. This is the third generation of the Data Depot filesystem, which offers research group...
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Anvil supports BigCARE 2025 Summer Workshop
Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer recently supported the 2025 BigCARE Summer Workshop, a two-week course aimed at helping cancer researchers develop big data skills. This year’s workshop took place at the University of California, Irvine (UCI)....
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Purdue and IU joint team to compete in HPC student competition
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has teamed up with Indiana University’s (IU) Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) to support a team of students competing in IndySCC, a world-renowned supercomputing competition. The team—named “INP...