SC2025 High Performance Computing Research and Innovation Showcase
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Gautschi Community Cluster
In late 2024, RCAC unveiled its newest and most powerful supercomputer to date, Gautschi. The Gautschi cluster was designed to provide Purdue researchers with a world-class computing resource capable of driving the university toward its next giant leap.
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ChipsHub
Chipshub, the online platform for everything semiconductors, has finally arrived.
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RSE Project | Biobattery
Biobattery is designed to enhance autism diagnosis through real-time eye tracking technology.
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RSE Project | ACID-R
ACID-R (Automated Commercial Industry Data – Repository) is designed to help the Air Force identify promising new technologies with more efficiency by harnessing the power of AI, but with no risk of hallucination (AI-fabricated false information).
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HyperShell
RCAC staff members developed HyperShell, the ultimate workflow automation tool.
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Anvil enters fourth year
Anvil, one of Purdue’s most powerful supercomputers, continues its pursuit of excellence in HPC as it enters its fourth year of operations.
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ALCF Lighthouse Initiative
RCAC joins the ALFC Lighthouse Initiative, a newly launched initiative from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory.
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Negishi helps nuclear engineering
Samuel Wyss, who recently graduated with his master’s degree in nuclear engineering under the supervision of Allen Garner, studies a phenomenon known as electroporation, where cell membranes open up in response to a high intensity electromagnetic field.
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Gautschi-AI
Gautschi-AI is comprised of 20 Dell PowerEdge XE9680 compute nodes, each with Dual 56-Core Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+ CPUs, 8 Nvidia H100 SXM GPUs with 80 GB of RAM, and 8x non-blocking 400 Gbps NDR links.
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Purdue GenAI Studio
An on-premises LLM service that makes open-source LLM models like LLaMA accessible to anyone at Purdue.
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StreamCI
RCAC is leading a major NSF grant awarded to create an artificial intelligence (AI)-ready streaming data platform for researchers across domains.
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RCAC student improves Anvil with MS thesis
Vivek Karunai Kiri Ragavan's MS thesis focused on enhancing cloud-native clusters through custom scheduling.
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RCAC Summer Camps | 2025
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted two summer camps for high schoolers with the goal of introducing and developing cybersecurity and coding skills.
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Anvil used to advance research on two-phase flows
Researchers from The George Washington University used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to simulate fluid flows in order to elucidate the physics of turbulent bubble entrainment.
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Bell powers notable studies of seismology - volcano dynamics
Xiaotao Yang, an assistant professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences and a seismologist is using Bell for seismic imaging and to better understand the lithosphere, the outermost layer of the Earth, and how earthquakes and volcanoes occur.
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Negishi helps with quantum simulations
Negishi is playing a key role in the research of Purdue assistant professor of materials engineering Arun Mannodi Kanakkithodi and his lab.
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Anvil used for big scale turbulence research
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin (UW)–Madison used Purdue's Anvil supercomputer to study turbulence and turbulent transport in astrophysical plasmas.
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Anvil REU | Summer 2025 program
Eight students from across the nation gathered at Purdue’s campus in West Lafayette, Indiana, for this year’s Anvil REU program.
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AnvilGPT
AnvilGPT is an on-premises large language model (LLM) service that makes open-source LLM models like LLaMA accessible worldwide to ACCESS researchers.