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  • Computational materials scientist relies on Negishi cluster for quantum simulations, training machine learning models

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Oct. 22 RCAC Cyberinfrastructure Symposium to feature ACM distinguished scientist as keynote speaker

    The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to host its third annual Cyberinfrastructure Symposium in Fowler Hall on Oct. 22, which will spotlight the role of high-performance computing (HPC), AI and semiconductors in scientific advance...

  • University collaboration receives $6 million in funding for new CI workforce project

    The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $6 million to Purdue, Indiana, and Mississippi State Universities to fund a collaborative program aimed at fortifying the cyberinfrastructure (CI) workforce within research communities. The new proje...

  • 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...

  • RCAC cluster Negishi powers study of additively manufactured materials

    Researchers at Purdue are studying the behavior of additively manufactured (otherwise known as 3D-printed) materials, thanks to the powerful capabilities offered by the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Negishi cluster. Krzysztof Szymon St...

  • The future of teaching and learning has arrived

    Purdue University’s Envision Center, part of the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, has developed a virtual reality platform that utilizes the Meta Quest 3 headsets to bring the future of teaching and learning to our doorstep. The Envision Center (...

  • Graduate student sponsored by Purdue Women in HPC honored with best poster award at canine genetics conference

    Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group recently sponsored Jeanna Blake, a doctoral student in the College of Veterinary Medicine, so she could attend the 12th International Conference on Canine and Feline Genetics and Genomics (ICC...

  • 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,...

  • Purdue Women in HPC hosts workshop on gender stereotypes, bias

    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) and led by RCAC staff members Katy Gunderson and Amanda Hassenplug, hosted a workshop on Feb...