Anvil
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Purdue Anvil CPU and AI nodes unavailable On November 16-18, 2026
The Anvil CPU and AI (Nvidia H100 GPUs) nodes will be unavailable during a planned outage on Monday, November 16, at 4:00 a.m. through Wednesday, November 18, at 6:00 a.m. EST, to complete some maintenance that cannot be delayed. The Anvil login and...
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Anvil supported 2026 Nobel Prize in physics for NSF IceCube neutrino discoveries
Francis Halzen, a Gregory Breit Professor and Vilas Research Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for “decisive contributio...
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EMERGENCY POWER SHUTDOWN - ALL RCAC SYSTEMS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
Due to an issue with the new power distribution system, our contractor has had to shut down power to a number of RCAC systems that are connected to the new busway. We are bringing the affected systems down now as a precaution.
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RCAC’s 2026 CI-XP Summer Internship program is a great success
Over the summer, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) hosted its annual 11-week hands-on internship, the CI-XP Summer Internship Program. This program is designed to give undergraduate students real-world work experience in high-performance...
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Heads up: High voltage switching operation Tuesday, Oct. 13, 5-9 a.m.
Purdue Energy and Utilities is working on a high voltage switching operation on Tuesday (Oct. 13) from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. We do not expect any impact; however, any switching operation carries a slight risk of power outage.
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Anvil lowers barrier to entry for big data cancer researchers at BigCARE 2026
Over the summer, Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer supported the 2026 BigCARE Workshop, a two-week course that teaches cancer researchers big data skills. The workshop took place at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Joe C. Wen School o...
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Upcoming Anvil Outage on September 19-21 2026
**Updates (September 21, 2026): ** The scheduled maintenance on Anvil has been successfully completed as of 3:37 pm EDT. All services are now available. The queues have been enabled and jobs have resumed scheduling. If you encounter any issues follow...
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MATH Datacenter - Planned Power Outage: September 19–20, 2026
Planned Power Outage: September 19–20, 2026 As the renovation and capacity improvement project in the MATH datacenter moves into its final stages, a planned maintenance outage is required to continue bringing the newly installed power and cooling inf...
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RCAC makes an impact at PEARC26
Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) participated in the ACM Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) 26 conference. The international conference, hosted in Minneapolis, MN, from July 26-30, brought tog...
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Purdue enables AI- and data- cyberinfrastructure, partners in multiple newly awarded NSF projects
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has recently secured funding as a partner on multiple National Science Foundation (NSF) grants. The grants come from the Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) program, and RCAC is a partner on...
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RCAC hosts three K-12 summer camps focused on STEM
The arrival of summer on Purdue’s campus marks a season of exchange: a mass exodus of college students makes way for an influx of K-12 summer campers. For the past two years, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has been actively involved i...
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CI-XP student gains real-world HPC experience while boosting RCAC systems
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) core mission is to provide researchers access to leading-edge computational and data storage systems as well as expertise in a broad range of high-performance computing (HPC) activities. As a major cen...
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Purdue co-hosts regional NSF AI workshop
Earlier this year, Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) hosted an artificial intelligence (AI) workshop for researchers throughout the Midwest. Titled “AI for All: Practical and Accessible AI for Research and Education,” this workshop...
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Anvil used to advance AI 3D object detection
Researchers from the University of Virginia used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to advance the field of 3D computer vision by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) methods. Their work, which has led to the production of numerous publications and conf...
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New Anvil Object Storage now available to researchers
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce the arrival of Anvil Object Storage, the newest storage service for Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer. Anvil Object Storage is designed to support large-scale, data-intensive research a...
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RCAC makes an impact at student hackathons
Throughout the Spring 2026 semester, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) outreach and engagement team worked hard to promote high-performance computing to campus researchers, reach new audiences outside of Purdue, and directly support th...
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Service Disruption to Bell, Geddes, Gilbreth, Negishi, Anvil, and GenAI Studio
We are currently experiencing an unexpected service outage affecting the following systems: Negishi, Geddes, GenAI Studio, Bell, Anvil, and Gilbreth. Our team is actively working to restore full functionality as quickly as possible. During this time,...
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New Anvil datasets available to accelerate discovery driven by artificial intelligence
Anvil, one of Purdue University’s most powerful supercomputers, is undergoing an upgrade to its data repositories in order to provide researchers with easy access to large artificial intelligence (AI) datasets. These AI datasets are hosted on the sys...
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Kernel Upgrade on Clusters Nodes
We are performing rolling reboots on all login and compute nodes for critical kernel upgrades. Nodes will reboot in stages, so resources remain available.
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All Clusters & Services Restored
At approximately 9:40pm EDT Monday, April 27th, 2026, a campus-wide power outage due to weather impacted all research computing clusters and storage systems. Power has been restored, and engineers are currently bringing systems back online in an orde...