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Anvil

  • Anvil Changes

    During Anvil scheduled maintenance on March 21, 2023, several changes were made on Anvil. The default Slurm partition has been changed from wholenode to shared. This change seeks to reduce accidental waste of compute resources and SUs. In the old d...

  • March 2023 Anvil Training

    RCAC will be hosting a new Anvil training in March: "Containerized Bioinformatics Applications for HPC". This seminar will take place on March 23rd from 2:00PM - 3:00PM. This bioinformatics workshop will introduce the containerized bioinfor...

  • Anvil REU Program has major impact on student success

    After only one year, the Anvil summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program is already impacting the lives and careers of the students who participated. Nrushad Joshi, an undergraduate student at Indiana University, recently accepted...

  • Anvil helps Yale researchers in the search for batteries of the future

    Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer has been helping researchers forge a path in developing the batteries of the future. Dr. Aakash Kumar, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science as well as the Energy Scien...

  • Anvil Maintenance

    The Anvil system will be unavailable Tuesday, March 21, 2023 from 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. Any Slurm jobs which request a walltime which would take them past Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 at 8:00am EDT will not start and will remain...

  • Purdue researchers leading the fight against infectious diseases using Anvil

    Purdue researchers are using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s powerful Anvil supercomputer to fight infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB). Elsje Pienaar, an associate professor at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, l...

  • Unscheduled Anvil outage

    The Anvil cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 6:45pm EDT. Access to scratch directories may be slow or hang. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paus...

  • April 2023 Anvil Training

    Next week, RCAC will be hosting two trainings for the Anvil Community. ACCESS HPC Workshop: Shared Memory Programming Using OpenMP 4/24/2023 11:00 AM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT This in-person workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on...

  • Anvil REU Program helps student achieve NASA internship

    The Anvil summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program has once again proven invaluable for the students who participate in the hands-on learning experience. Lucas Snyder is an undergraduate student at Indiana University who studies In...

  • Purdue's Anvil supercomputer enters second year of production

    Anvil, Purdue’s most powerful supercomputer, is hammering out progress as it forges ahead into the second year of operations. Funded by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Anvil began early user operations in November 2021...

  • Research team using Anvil in hypersonics research

    A team of researchers has been using the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s powerful Anvil supercomputer to study gaseous jets in hypersonic crossflow, which is useful for understanding the operations of the systems that are used to steer a...

  • Purdue’s Anvil Supercomputer Assists with COVID-19 Pandemic Response

    A research group from the University of Virginia (UVA) utilized Purdue’s Anvil supercomputing cluster to help provide COVID-19 scenario modeling for local, state, federal, and university officials and departments. The team used computer models to pre...

  • June 2023 Anvil Training

    This month, RCAC will be hosting a training for the Anvil Community. ACCESS HPC Workshop: GPU Programming Using OpenACC 6/29/2023 11:00 AM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT This in-person workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introductio...

  • Cancer researchers learn about big data analysis using Anvil

    The BigCare 2023 Summer Workshop, an on-site program that utilized the Anvil supercomputer to help train cancer researchers on how to harness the power of big data, has recently concluded, and based on participant feedback, it was a huge success! The...

  • Anvil Changes - June 28, 2023

    During Anvil scheduled maintenance on June 28, 2023, several changes were made on Anvil. Kernel updates. We have updated Kernel version to 4.18.0-425.19.2. CUDA updates. NVIDIA GPU driver has been updated to 530.30.02, and CUDA 12.1 was installed...

  • Anvil Cluster Maintenance

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    The Anvil system will be unavailable Wednesday, June 28th, 2023 from 8:00am - Thursday, June 29th, 2023 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. Any Slurm jobs which request a walltime which would take them past Wednesday, June 28th, 2023 at 8:00am E...

  • Anvil REU Student Lands Cybersecurity Role

    MaKayla McCartan is an undergraduate student at Purdue University, where she majors in cybersecurity and minors in both sociology and organizational leadership. McCartan was a participant in the 2022 Anvil REU program, and has recently accepted an in...

  • Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer helps researchers look at the origins of the universe

    A long time ago, before there were galaxies far, far away, there was an explosion of unimaginable proportions. Everything that ever has and ever will exist in the universe was compressed within a single point, and for reasons unknown, that point expl...

  • Introducing CryoSPARC: Anvil’s powerful new software aimed at bioscience research

    The Anvil supercomputer has recently received a full integration of CryoSPARC, a state-of-the-art HPC software solution designed to enable the complete processing of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data. With this new addition to...

  • Anvil REU Summer 2023 program is a tremendous success

    After 11 weeks of hard work and hands-on education, the Anvil Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer 2023 program has come to a close. This year’s Anvil REU program saw five students from across the nation gather at Purdue’s campus in We...