Purdue University

Overview

Anvil is Purdue University’s most powerful supercomputer, providing researchers from diverse backgrounds with advanced computing capabilities. Built through a $10 million system acquisition grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Anvil supports scientific discovery by providing resources through the NSF’s Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS), a program that serves tens of thousands of researchers across the United States. Purdue has proudly partnered with the NSF to deliver high-performance computing to researchers in need for over a decade. The Anvil supercomputer went into production in February of 2022 and will continue serving the research community through 2027. Additional funding from the NSF supports Anvil's operations and user support.

Over the coming years, the Anvil supercomputer will enable significant discoveries across many areas of science and engineering. Anvil will also serve as an experiential learning laboratory for students to gain real-world experience using computing for their science, and for student interns to work with the Anvil team to innovate and enhance Anvil’s capabilities. Through the continued support of hands-on education, Purdue will be training the future cyberinfrastructure (CI) professionals and CI-savvy workforce. Learn more about Anvil's mission in the Anvil press release.

Anvil is funded under NSF award number 2005632. Carol Song is the principal investigator and project director. Preston Smith, executive director of Research Computing, and Rajesh Kalyanam, research scientist, are all co-PIs on the project. 

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Anvil at A Glance

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All Anvil Team

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