Anvil
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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 a...
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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...
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Anvil and Negishi cluster maintenance
The Anvil and Negishi clusters will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, March 12th 2024 at 8:00am for a scheduled maintenance. The clusters will return to full production by Tuesday, March 12th at 5pm. During this time, Anvil and Negishi will have rack...
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Unscheduled Anvil outage - Partial
The Anvil cluster began experiencing issues with Slurm Scheduling this past week. Engineers are currently diagnosing the root cause and are working to identify a fix. Scheduling is still enabled at this time. You may experience periodic SLURM outage...
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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,...
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Anvil Scheduled Maintenance Wednesday, February 7th, 2024
The Anvil system will be unavailable Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 from 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. Any Slurm jobs which request a walltime which would take them past Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 at 8:00am EDT will not start and w...
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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 Departm...
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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....
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 8:00am EST on Friday, December 22nd, 2023 , and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Potential Ticket Response Delays
As the holiday season approaches, we want to inform you about potential delays in our ticket response times until the end of this year. Our support team is currently working with reduced staff, impacting our ability to respond promptly. Additionally...
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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 Lafayet...
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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 dynami...
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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, an...
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Anvil is experiencing more issues related to the power outage yesterday in the Purdue Data Center. Users are currently unable to login via any method, SSH, Open On Demand, etc. Engineers have been dispatched to resolve the issue. This post will be up...
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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 We...
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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...
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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 expl...
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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 in...
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During Anvil scheduled maintenance on June 28, 2023, several changes were made on Anvil. Kernel updates. We have updated Kernel version to 4.18.0-425.19.2. CUDA updates. NVIDIA GPU driver has been updated to 530.30.02, and CUDA 12.1 was installed...
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The Anvil system will be unavailable Wednesday, June 28th, 2023 from 8:00am - Thursday, June 29th, 2023 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. Any Slurm jobs which request a walltime which would take them past Wednesday, June 28th, 2023 at 8:00am E...