Anvil
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Anvil is experiencing more issues related to the power outage yesterday in the Purdue Data Center. Users are currently unable to login via any method, SSH, Open On Demand, etc. Engineers have been dispatched to resolve the issue. This post will be up...
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Exploratory Series: Archaeology and HPC
Running from boulders, jumping across chasms, defeating villains while simultaneously finding ancient and mysterious artifacts—this is archaeology. Except, that’s not quite true. These are common misconceptions people tend to have about the field, an...
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Researchers use Anvil supercomputer to study instabilities in polymers
Scientists from the Material Research and Innovation Laboratory (MRAIL) at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville used the Anvil supercomputer to obtain a deeper understanding of the Flow-induced structural instabilities of polymers and polymer dynami...
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Competitors on the court, colleagues in computing
High-performance computing (HPC) is booming in the state of Indiana. Two of the nation’s top National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded supercomputers reside on campuses within the state: Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer, located in West Lafayet...
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Potential Ticket Response Delays
As the holiday season approaches, we want to inform you about potential delays in our ticket response times until the end of this year. Our support team is currently working with reduced staff, impacting our ability to respond promptly. Additionally...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 8:00am EST on Friday, December 22nd, 2023 , and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Anvil helps researchers study land-atmosphere interaction processes
A research group from Columbia University has utilized Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to run computational fluid dynamics simulations in order to learn more about atmospheric turbulence and the interactions between land surfaces and the atmosphere. Dr....
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Anvil helps develop new SARS-CoV-2 therapy
A research team from Delaware State University used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to computationally design a new pan-coronavirus therapy that is resistant to mutational changes. Dr. Mohammad Shahidul Islam, a former assistant professor in the Departm...
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Anvil Scheduled Maintenance Wednesday, February 7th, 2024
The Anvil system will be unavailable Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 from 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. Any Slurm jobs which request a walltime which would take them past Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 at 8:00am EDT will not start and w...
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Anvil helps undergraduates gain real-world HPC experience
Five students from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I) took part in a semester-long research experience program to gain practical knowledge on data analytics and statistical research using common computing HPC resources. Daniel Ries,...
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Unscheduled Anvil outage - Partial
The Anvil cluster began experiencing issues with Slurm Scheduling this past week. Engineers are currently diagnosing the root cause and are working to identify a fix. Scheduling is still enabled at this time. You may experience periodic SLURM outage...
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Anvil and Negishi cluster maintenance
The Anvil and Negishi clusters will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, March 12th 2024 at 8:00am for a scheduled maintenance. The clusters will return to full production by Tuesday, March 12th at 5pm. During this time, Anvil and Negishi will have rack...
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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...
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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 a...
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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 Gra...
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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 nationa...
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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...
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Anvil Cluster Maintenance - Partial
The Anvil system will have reduced capacity Monday, May 13 from 8:00am - Tuesday, May 14 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. Some compute nodes will be powered off during the maintenance for some power work. How does this maintenance impact you?...
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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...
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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...