Science Highlights
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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 tale...
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The Gautschi supercomputer unveiled in dedication ceremony
Last week, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) held a dedication ceremony for its newest community cluster, Gautschi. The Gautschi supercomputer is eponymously named in honor of Walter Gautschi, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and P...
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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 th...
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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 researcher...
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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 ava...
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New Protected Data Filesystem is available at RCAC
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) announces new capabilities to enable scientific computing with protected, life science data within the community cluster program. Interim CIO Christian Theumer stated that Purdue IT invested in life scie...
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Purdue co-hosts “Building and Maintaining Supportive Communities for Women in HPC” event
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group, which is part of a broader engagement initiative by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), co-hosted a workshop on Sept. 3 organized by the Virginia WHPC chapter about current challe...
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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...
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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...
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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 skill...
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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 Resear...
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The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Negishi supercomputer, RCAC’s newest community cluster, is playing a key role in the research of Purdue assistant professor of materials engineering Arun Mannodi Kanakkithodi and his lab. Mannodi, who...
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Mathematical Sciences Building Data Center receives approval for renovations
On Friday, August 2, the Purdue Board of Trustees gave approval to finance, construct, and award construction contracts for a $16M renovation to the Mathematical Sciences Building Data Center. This long-awaited renovation will result in a 32% increas...
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New data storage options for cloud workflows now available with RCAC
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has recently upgraded the data storage options available to researchers. Thanks to a grant awarded through the National Science Foundation’s Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) program, RCAC now offers stor...
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Long time community cluster partner wins prestigious Purdue research award
Matthew Huber, the David E. Ross Director of the Purdue Institute for a Sustainable Future and a professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences, was recently awarded the Herbert Newby McCoy Award for outstanding work in the natural sciences....
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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-s...
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RCAC staff to present at national research computing conference
Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) staff will present papers, lead workshops and participate in panels at the upcoming Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference, themed “HPC: Human Powered Computing,” which wil...
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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 co...
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RCAC hosts successful summer camps related to cybersecurity, coding
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted two summer camps aimed at high schoolers, with the hopes of giving them an introduction into the college experience by providing them the ability to earn college credit, explore potential...
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Purdue awarded two NSF grants to enhance networking for research
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure has recently awarded Purdue University two new Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) grants. The two awards, totaling nearly $1.5 million, will directly address and enhance the...