Anvil
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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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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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Purdue's Anvil supercomputer now available for use
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 N...
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Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer aids in drug discovery
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 M...
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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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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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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 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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During Anvil scheduled maintenance on June 2, 2022, a couple of changes will be made to the current behavior of Slurm on Anvil. The standard queue will be renamed to wholenode. This change seeks to alleviate some of the confusion regarding the defa...
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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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Anvil accelerates genome sequencing for studying psychiatric disorders
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 Uni...
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MATH data center cooling outage
The Math building data center began experience issues with its cooling system around 1:40pm EDT. To minimize thermal load on the cooling infrastructure, job scheduling has been paused and all idle compute nodes on Anvil, Bell, Geddes, Gilbreth, and...
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Important changes to Anvil login procedures
XSEDE program operations are coming to an end on August 31, 2022, and transitioning to the new ACCESS program. Anvil will continue to be a resource provider (RP) under ACCESS, however there are some significant changes planned across allocation and o...
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RESTORED: Anvil OnDemand Authentication Temporarily Unavailable
Dear Anvil Users: Our engineers are currently working to resolve an issue with transitioning Anvil's OnDemand portal to use the new ACCESS authentication infrastructure, hence users will not be able to use the OnDemand portal. You may continue to use...
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Anvil used to train cancer researchers in big data analysis
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 statistic...
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Anvil accelerates sustainability and photosynthesis research
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 challen...
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RCAC and NVIDIA Present - Using GPUs with Python (Link correction)
Workshop Announcement: RCAC and NVIDIA Present - Using GPUs with Python Fri, Sep 30, 2022 1:00 PM Python is the leading language for data science today and is being increasingly used in scientific computations. This workshop introduces Python GPU too...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST on Thursday, December 22nd, 2022, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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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 scientis...
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The Anvil cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch and project file system around 10:00am EST. Access to scratch and project directories may be slow or hang. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working with the vendor to id...