Anvil
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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer aids in drug discovery
Purdue’s powerful new Anvil supercomputer is helping one researcher accelerate his biomolecular simulations and unlock new treatments for heart disease. Yinglong Miao, an assistant professor at the Center for Computational Biology and Department of M...
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Purdue's Anvil supercomputer now available for use
Purdue University's powerful new Anvil supercomputer, funded by the National Science Foundation and built in partnership with Dell and AMD, is now available for use. Anvil will significantly increase the computing capacity available to users of the N...
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Anvil accelerates genome sequencing for studying psychiatric disorders
Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer has helped one research team better understand how DNA changes relate to psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder. Richard Wilton, an associate research scientist at Johns Hopkins Uni...
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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...
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RESTORED: Anvil OnDemand Authentication Temporarily Unavailable
Dear Anvil Users: Our engineers are currently working to resolve an issue with transitioning Anvil's OnDemand portal to use the new ACCESS authentication infrastructure, hence users will not be able to use the OnDemand portal. You may continue to use...
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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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Important changes to Anvil login procedures
XSEDE program operations are coming to an end on August 31, 2022, and transitioning to the new ACCESS program. Anvil will continue to be a resource provider (RP) under ACCESS, however there are some significant changes planned across allocation and o...
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MATH data center cooling outage
The Math building data center began experience issues with its cooling system around 1:40pm EDT. To minimize thermal load on the cooling infrastructure, job scheduling has been paused and all idle compute nodes on Anvil, Bell, Geddes, Gilbreth, and...
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During Anvil scheduled maintenance on June 2, 2022, a couple of changes will be made to the current behavior of Slurm on Anvil. The standard queue will be renamed to wholenode. This change seeks to alleviate some of the confusion regarding the defa...