Anvil
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Cancer researchers learn about big data analysis using Anvil
The BigCare 2023 Summer Workshop, an on-site program that utilized the Anvil supercomputer to help train cancer researchers on how to harness the power of big data, has recently concluded, and based on participant feedback, it was a huge success! The...
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This month, RCAC will be hosting a training for the Anvil Community. ACCESS HPC Workshop: GPU Programming Using OpenACC 6/29/2023 11:00 AM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT This in-person workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introductio...
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Purdue’s Anvil Supercomputer Assists with COVID-19 Pandemic Response
A research group from the University of Virginia (UVA) utilized Purdue’s Anvil supercomputing cluster to help provide COVID-19 scenario modeling for local, state, federal, and university officials and departments. The team used computer models to pre...
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Research team using Anvil in hypersonics research
A team of researchers has been using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s powerful Anvil supercomputer to study gaseous jets in hypersonic crossflow, which is useful for understanding the operations of the systems that are used to steer a...
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Purdue's Anvil supercomputer enters second year of production
Anvil, Purdue’s most powerful supercomputer, is hammering out progress as it forges ahead into the second year of operations. Funded by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Anvil began early user operations in November 2021...
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Anvil REU Program helps student achieve NASA internship
The Anvil summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program has once again proven invaluable for the students who participate in the hands-on learning experience. Lucas Snyder is an undergraduate student at Indiana University who studies In...
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Next week, RCAC will be hosting two trainings for the Anvil Community. ACCESS HPC Workshop: Shared Memory Programming Using OpenMP 4/24/2023 11:00 AM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT This in-person workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on...
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The Anvil cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 6:45pm EDT. Access to scratch directories may be slow or hang. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paus...
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Purdue researchers leading the fight against infectious diseases using Anvil
Purdue researchers are using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s powerful Anvil supercomputer to fight infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB). Elsje Pienaar, an associate professor at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, l...
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The Anvil system will be unavailable Tuesday, March 21, 2023 from 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. Any Slurm jobs which request a walltime which would take them past Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 at 8:00am EDT will not start and will remain...
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Anvil helps Yale researchers in the search for batteries of the future
Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer has been helping researchers forge a path in developing the batteries of the future. Dr. Aakash Kumar, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science as well as the Energy Scien...
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Anvil REU Program has major impact on student success
After only one year, the Anvil summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program is already impacting the lives and careers of the students who participated. Nrushad Joshi, an undergraduate student at Indiana University, recently accepted...
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RCAC will be hosting a new Anvil training in March: "Containerized Bioinformatics Applications for HPC". This seminar will take place on March 23rd from 2:00PM - 3:00PM. This bioinformatics workshop will introduce the containerized bioinfor...
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During Anvil scheduled maintenance on March 21, 2023, several changes were made on Anvil. The default Slurm partition has been changed from wholenode to shared. This change seeks to reduce accidental waste of compute resources and SUs. In the old d...
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The Anvil cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch and project file system around 10:00am EST. Access to scratch and project directories may be slow or hang. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working with the vendor to id...
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Adverse drug effects are thought to be vastly underreported, but a team from Purdue’s College of Pharmacy is working with the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) to use artificial intelligence to change that. RCAC senior research data scientis...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST on Thursday, December 22nd, 2022, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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RCAC and NVIDIA Present - Using GPUs with Python (Link correction)
Workshop Announcement: RCAC and NVIDIA Present - Using GPUs with Python Fri, Sep 30, 2022 1:00 PM Python is the leading language for data science today and is being increasingly used in scientific computations. This workshop introduces Python GPU too...
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Anvil accelerates sustainability and photosynthesis research
Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer is helping a Michigan State research team study processes associated with photosynthesis and plant metabolism, and apply those insights to facilitate more efficient energy conversion to meet today’s sustainability challen...
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Anvil used to train cancer researchers in big data analysis
Purdue’s powerful Anvil supercomputer is being used to train a group of cancer researchers – from graduate students to professors and practicing physicians – on big data management, analysis and visualization skills. Min Zhang, professor of statistic...