Anvil
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Anvil will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on Thursday, June 2, 2022 from 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT. During this time, Anvil will be unavailable for use as we fine-tune home directories filesystem and deploy updates to the scheduler. Please see detaile...
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Unscheduled campus power outage
Several Research Computing resources became affected by a campus power outage around 7:00pm EDT. Multiple login and compute nodes may have powered down, leading to jobs fail and/or requeue with a NODE_FAIL or similar status. Engineers are currently d...
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Whole System Benchmarking on Anvil
The Anvil team will perform a whole-system benchmark during March 21–29, 2022. During this period, Anvil will remain accessible for login and file access, but users may experience longer than usual job scheduling delays. We appreciate your patience a...
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Unscheduled Math Data Center Cooling Outage
The Math building data center began experience issues with its cooling system around 11:40am EDT. As one of manifestations, users may experience issues while logging in to the Anvil, Bell, Gilbreth, and Halstead clusters. To minimize thermal load on...
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Unscheduled Math data center cooling outage
The Math building data center began experience issues with its cooling system around 11:40am EST. As one of manifestations, users may experience issues while logging in to the Anvil, Bell, Gilbreth, Halstead, Workbench, and Data Depot clusters. To m...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 3rd, 2022. During this time, Research Computing services will conti...
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ITaP Research Computing is pleased to announce the availability of the Anvil supercomputer to the science and engineering community. Researchers may submit allocation requests via XSEDE between June 15th to July 15th. Anvil, funded by the National Sc...
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Anvil used to study dark matter and early universe formation
Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer was used by researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to study the effects of dark matter on galaxy formation in the early universe. This research, part of the Supersonic Project, aims t...
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Purdue research team uses Anvil to secure position as finalist in NASA competition
A research group from Purdue University used the Anvil supercomputer to compete in NASA's Beyond the Algorithm Challenge, a nationwide competition aimed at improving flood analysis with emerging technologies. The team from the SECQUOIA (Systems Engin...
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Advancing AI at Purdue: 2025 in Review
Throughout 2025, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) made a concerted effort to expand the artificial intelligence (AI) resources available to Purdue at large. By enhancing the infrastructure, support, and training for AI and generative AI...
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Bioinformatics researcher uses Anvil AI to advance field and present at NeurIPS 2025
A research group from the University of Missouri recently used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to train a deep learning model to represent three-dimensional protein structures that are effective in downstream bioinformatics tasks. The new model not only...
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RCAC makes an impact at student hackathons
Throughout the Spring 2026 semester, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) outreach and engagement team worked hard to promote high-performance computing to campus researchers, reach new audiences outside of Purdue, and directly support th...
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Anvil used to advance AI 3D object detection
Researchers from the University of Virginia used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to advance the field of 3D computer vision by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) methods. Their work, which has led to the production of numerous publications and conf...
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Purdue co-hosts regional NSF AI workshop
Earlier this year, Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) hosted an artificial intelligence (AI) workshop for researchers throughout the Midwest. Titled “AI for All: Practical and Accessible AI for Research and Education,” this workshop...
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CI-XP student gains real-world HPC experience while boosting RCAC systems
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) core mission is to provide researchers access to leading-edge computational and data storage systems as well as expertise in a broad range of high-performance computing (HPC) activities. As a major cen...
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RCAC hosts three K-12 summer camps focused on STEM
The arrival of summer on Purdue’s campus marks a season of exchange: a mass exodus of college students makes way for an influx of K-12 summer campers. For the past two years, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has been actively involved i...
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Purdue enables AI- and data- cyberinfrastructure, partners in multiple newly awarded NSF projects
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has recently secured funding as a partner on multiple National Science Foundation (NSF) grants. The grants come from the Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) program, and RCAC is a partner on...
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RCAC makes an impact at PEARC26
Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) participated in the ACM Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) 26 conference. The international conference, hosted in Minneapolis, MN, from July 26-30, brought tog...
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RCAC Student Spotlight : Elian Rieza
Name: Elian Rieza Year: Sophomore Major: Electrical Engineering Position: Assistant Computational Researcher Can you introduce yourself and share a little about who you are? Hello! My name is Elian and I’m an Assistant Researcher! What are some of y...
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Scientific workflow management system, Pegasus, available on Anvil
Pegasus, an NSF-funded scientific workflow management system, is now available for use on Purdue's Anvil supercomputer. With the addition of Pegasus, Anvil users can define, manage, and execute complex, multi-step computational tasks with ease throug...