“We designed Anvil to fit a broad cross-section of research work,” said Preston Smith, executive director of research computing and a co-PI on the project. Bone biomechanics: Research combining structural geometry and material science. The research will study enhanced bone hydration as novel pathway to reduce bone fragility.
Archaeological reconstruction: A novel procedural (or generative) approach to creating detailed 3D models of existing or previously existing urban spaces for use in various exploratory, what-if design scenarios.Deep learning theory: Combining traditional graph algorithms and neural network methods to learn latent vertex representation in a graph. Applications include recommender systems, object relationship reasoning robotic, drug design, and logical rule extraction.Hypersonics: Addressing the scientific challenges of predicting and controlling the extreme aerothermal loads that occur in flight at high Mach numbers.We call it science as a service."Īt Purdue, early users are working on projects in key areas of research such as:
"We expect tens of thousands of researchers around the nation to access it and enable their transformative research. We see Anvil as a system forging the future of computing," said Carol Song, principal investigator and project director for Anvil, and a senior research scientist for Purdue Research Computing. In addition to serving researchers at Purdue, Anvil will significantly increase the capacity available to the NSF's Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), in which Purdue has been a partner for the past 10 years.
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Anvil, which is funded by a $22.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, is being tested by more than 30 research teams and is expected to enter full production later this year. Purdue University's powerful new Anvil supercomputer will enable new discoveries in fields ranging from hypersonics and deep learning to archeological reconstruction and bone biomechanics.