Scientific Highlights
-
CI-XP Student Presentations at the Envision Center
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently hosted its annual CI-XP Student Program Lightning Talks, giving RCAC students a chance to showcase their projects and accomplishments to peers and staff within the organization. The CI-XP (Cyber Infrastructure-eXPerience) Student Program provid...
-
Anvil supercomputer supports Cryo-EM workshop
The Southeastern Center for Microscopy of Macromolecular Machines (SECM4) utilized Purdue University’s Anvil supercomputer to host the 2024 SECM4 data processing workshop. The workshop focused on teaching researchers how to process data for single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy (SPA-cryo-EM)...
-
Anvil REU Student presents at GOOD 2025
Richie Tan, one of the participants of the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) 2024 Anvil Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer program, recently presented at the Global Open OnDemand 2025 Conference (GOOD 2025). Tan highlighted the web dashboard that he and another REU studen...
-
RCAC sponsors two successful hackathons
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has had a busy start to the new year. From delivering top-notch HPC (high-performance computing) training events, giving presentations at different campuses and national meetings, and hosting demonstrations of our newest technologies, the staff at RCAC...
-
Anvil AI now available for allocations through NAIRR
Researchers nationwide can now request access to the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) new national artificial intelligence (AI) resource, Anvil AI. Purdue University's powerful national HPC-resource, the Anvil supercomputer, recently received an upgrade, thanks to support from the Nation...
-
Researcher uses Anvil to improve wind farm power prediction
A researcher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to help create more accurate Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models for offshore wind farms. Better model predictions can lead to a slew of benefits, such as determining ideal site selection and op...
-
RCAC to be official sponsor of BoilerMake XII
The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) is excited to announce their role as an official sponsor of the upcoming BoilerMake XII. BoilerMake is Purdue University’s premier hackathon, inviting undergraduate students from across the nation to join together for a weekend of computational and tech...
-
Purdue University’s powerful supercomputer, Anvil, recently received a major upgrade, thanks to funding provided by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) NAIRR Pilot Program. The new expansion has been installed and is now ready for use. With this Anvil upgrade, Purdue now offers a national superc...
-
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin (UW)–Madison used Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to study turbulence and turbulent transport in astrophysical plasmas. This research seeks to elucidate the fundamental physics of turbulence, which will have applications across the fields of fluid and plasma...
-
Industrial Engineering students present their RCAC Capstone Project
Six students from the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering recently completed their senior capstone project, which focused on helping to predict and reduce downtimes for RCAC’s computing systems. The group worked toward creating a predictive-maintenance Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool for mo...
Anvil is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2005632.