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Anvil is Purdue University’s most powerful supercomputer, providing researchers from diverse backgrounds with advanced computing capabilities. Over the coming years, the Anvil supercomputer will enable significant discoveries across many areas of science and engineering.

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  • RCAC successfully hosts third Anvil REU Summer program

    Over the summer, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) hosted its third annual 11-week hands-on internship, the Anvil Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer 2024 program. Eight students from across the nation gathered at Purdue’s campus in West Lafayette, Indiana, for this year...

  • NAIRR Pilot proves to be successful in delivering resources to AI researchers

    Earlier this year, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot to demonstrate the NAIRR concept and advance its primary goals of spurring innovation, increasing diversity of talent, improving capacity, and advancing safe, secure...

  • High school student learns HPC with Anvil

    Last Spring, under the guidance of PhD student Anastasia Neuman, a high schooler completed her senior capstone project by conducting research utilizing Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer. The pair used Anvil to run simulations elucidating the thermodynamics of nanocomposites. Sarah Will recentl...

  • RCAC receives NASA grant to elucidate the effects of wildfires on water systems

    Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is part of a major NASA grant awarded to develop a new Cyberinfrastructure (CI) tool for post-fire water management and decision-making. This tool, named HydroFlame, will allow researchers to predict the amount of damage wildfires will c...

  • Researchers use Anvil supercomputer to help detect manipulation in media

    In our world of 24-hour news cycles and social media reporting, the amount of information we receive daily has reached astounding levels. Never before has information exchange flowed so freely, nor so quickly, with news from anywhere in the world available instantly at our fingertips. We are dominat...

  • Introducing AnvilGPT: Anvil’s powerful new LLM service for researchers

    Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer now offers a powerful new feature in its artificial intelligence software services—AnvilGPT. AnvilGPT is a large language model (LLM) service that makes open-source LLM models like LLaMA accessible worldwide to ACCESS researchers. Unlike other LLM services, An...

  • Chipshub and Anvil union is a proven success for semiconductor workforce development

    Chipshub, the online platform for everything semiconductors, has finally arrived. After a massive development effort from the nanoHUB team, and with help from the staff at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), the online platform delivered advanced simulation software to the Purdue Summer...

  • Anvil supports BigCARE 2024 Summer Workshop

    Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer recently supported the 2024 BigCARE Summer Workshop, which took place at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The workshop was a two-week intensive class aimed at helping cancer researchers develop skills for managing, visualizing, analyzing, and integr...

  • Purdue University receives $4.9 million NSF award to enhance Anvil to support AI research

    The National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently awarded a $4.9 million supplement for Anvil, Purdue University’s most powerful supercomputer. This funding has been given in part to support the newly launched National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot. This NSF supplement wil...

  • Anvil helps researchers study particle dynamics for hypersonic vehicles

    Hypersonic flight—that is, flying faster than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound—has been around longer than you may think. The first object of human origin to achieve hypersonic flight dates back to 1949 when the U.S. Army test-fired a multi-stage rocket. Fast-forward to today, and we now hav...

  • Anvil to support upcoming BigCARE 2024 Summer Workshop

    The 2024 BigCARE Summer Workshop is soon to commence at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). This year will be UCI’s first time hosting the summer workshop, with the university opening its doors from July 14-26 for all cancer researchers to come and learn. The two-week intensive workshop aims...

  • RCAC participates in the Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium annual meeting

    Suzanna Gardner, Senior Research Operations Administrator of Outreach and Engagement for the Anvil supercomputer at RCAC, and Laura Theademan, Director of Center Operations and Visualization at RCAC, recently presented at the 2024 Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) Annual Meet...

  • Anvil enters year three of production

    Anvil, Purdue’s most powerful supercomputer, continues its pursuit of excellence in HPC as it enters its third year of operations. Funded by a $10 million acquisition grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Anvil began early user operations in November 2021 and entered production operation...

  • Anvil helps researchers simulate and predict gravitational waves

    Scientists from the collaborative Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) research group are using Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to explore the physics of cataclysmic space-time events and help shed light on the nature of one of the Universe’s fundamental forces: gravity. Vijay Varma, Assistant Professor...

  • RCAC student employee successfully defends Master’s Thesis

    Yiqing Qu, a Graduate Research Assistant at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), recently obtained her Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Information and Technology. Her MS thesis was related to the work she conducted at RCAC, which ensured that there is a way to measure and improv...

  • RCAC hosts outreach event for local high schoolers

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted an outreach activity for the Southport High School Engineering, Computer Science, and Robotics students and the school’s Girls Who Code group. During the event, the high schoolers learned about the Anvil supercomputer as well as RCAC’s E...

  • Anvil supercomputer slated to assist with national pilot project aimed at advancing AI

    Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer is now an official resource provider for the newly launched National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot. The NAIRR is a National Science Foundation (NSF) project aimed at creating a national infrastructure that connects U.S. researchers to...

  • Anvil assists in AI research to help boost pedestrian infrastructure

    Researchers from Purdue University used the Anvil supercomputer in their quest to automate sidewalk identification from Google Street View images and develop sidewalk maps for neighborhoods using computer vision techniques. Omar Faruqe Hamim is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Lyles School of Ci...

  • Anvil supercomputer used to advance knowledge of nanotechnology

    A researcher from Duke University is using Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to study and explore the underlying physics of a nanotechnology known as DNA Origami. Pranav Sharma is an Associate Researcher in the Biological and Soft Materials Modeling Lab at Duke University. He is using Anvil to develop an...

  • RCAC and Purdue’s Women in HPC assist with inaugural InnovateHer Hackathon

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) and Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently participated in the inaugural InnovateHer Hackathon, a weekend-long event at Purdue University aimed at fostering inclusivity in the field of technology. InnovateHer was a 36-hour lo...

Anvil is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2005632.