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Anvil

  • Incorrect Account Email

    Today, RCAC user management systems sent incorrect email messages to many faculty partners and their resource managers. Please ignore any recent email about expirations or removals. You may verify who has access to your resources through our site www...

  • Anvil AI now available to ACCESS researchers

    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...

  • RCAC staff win I-GUIDE Spatial AI Challenge

    Two staff members from the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently took first place in the I-GUIDE Spatial AI (Artificial Intelligence) Challenge 2024–25. Dr. Elham Barezi, the Lead AI Research Scientist, and Dr. Jungha Woo, a Lead Softwa...

  • Problem For New User/Projects On Anvil

    Anvil is experiencing a problem with new user and allocation propagation. Our engineers are working on the fix, and will keep this updated. The problem has been fixed at 5 pm.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Anvil Cluster Open Ondemand Maintenance - Sep 23

    The Open Ondemand service for Anvil will be unavailable from Tuesday, September 23 at 9:00am EDT, 2025 to Tuesday, September 23 at 5:00pm EDT, 2025. During the maintenance, Anvil team will perform a reconfiguration to the Open Ondemand dashboard for...

  • 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...

  • 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)....

  • RCAC hosts successful Anvil REU Summer 2025 program

    Over the summer, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) hosted its annual 11-week hands-on internship, the Anvil Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer program. Eight students from across the nation gathered at Purdue’s campus in...

  • Purdue participates in prestigious international conference, SC25

    Purdue University made an impact at the 2025 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC25). For more than 20 years, Purdue has participated in SC by showcasing the people and computing resources that...

  • Anvil and AI used to solve for best taxation strategies

    A researcher from the University of Nebraska-Omaha used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to develop a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique that can derive optimal taxation strategies for governments. This new method leveraged Anvil’s advanced GPUs...

  • Anvil Maintenance on December 11, 2025

    UPDATE: December 11, 2025 05:51 PM ET As of 5:51pm ET, the maintenance work on Anvil has been completed and job scheduling has been resumed. If you encounter any issues post maintenance, please contact ACCESS Help Desk. Original Post: The Anvil syste...