Anvil
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Anvil Cluster Maintenance - Partial
The Anvil system will have reduced capacity Monday, May 13 from 8:00am - Tuesday, May 14 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. Some compute nodes will be powered off during the maintenance for some power work. How does this maintenance impact you?...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...