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RCAC, College of Pharmacy partner on AI tool to identify adverse drug effects from social media posts

• January 6, 2023

Adverse drug effects are thought to be vastly underreported, but a team from Purdue’s College of Pharmacy is working with the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) to use artificial intelligence to change that. RCAC senior research data scientist Sarah Rodenbeck partnered with Kyle Hultgren, th...

Anvil accelerates sustainability and photosynthesis research

• September 9, 2022

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 challenges. Josh Vermaas, an assistant professor at Michi...

Anvil used to train cancer researchers in big data analysis

• September 8, 2022

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 statistics, used Anvil in her 2022 Big Data Training for Ca...

Anvil accelerates genome sequencing for studying psychiatric disorders

• June 30, 2022

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 University, and his collaborators used Anvil to carry...

Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer aids in drug discovery

• February 24, 2022

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 Molecular Biosciences at the University of Kansas,...

Purdue's Anvil supercomputer now available for use

• February 16, 2022

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 NSF’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Env...