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 National Science Foundation’s (NSF) NAIRR Pilot Program. This hardware upgrade added a total of 84 Nvidia H100 SXM GPUs to the system. Along with the GPUs, Anvil AI also features 1 petabyte of object storage, which can host datasets needed by AI researchers. After being deployed and utilized to great success through the NAIRR Pilot, RCAC is excited to announce that “Anvil AI” is available for allocation requests through ACCESS. To learn more about the Anvil supercomputer’s architecture, please read our Anvil AI Hardware Announcement.

Researchers may request access to Anvil and Anvil AI via the ACCESS allocations process. More information about Anvil is available on Purdue’s Anvil website. When requesting allocations through ACCESS, researchers should choose “Purdue Anvil AI” over “Purdue Anvil GPU.” This ensures that the users will have access to the new H100 GPUs instead of A100 GPUs.

If you have any questions regarding using Anvil AI, please submit a ticket at ACCESS Help Desk, by selecting the appropriate Anvil resource to have it routed to us.