Anvil AI

Anvil AI provides access to NVIDIA H100 GPUs for advanced AI workloads. It is designed for deep learning, large model training, and other compute-intensive AI applications.

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Jobs

For information on running jobs and example job scripts see - https://docs.rcac.purdue.edu/userguides/anvil/jobs/#running-jobs

 

Queue specifications

Metrics updated 2026-06-16

Name Purpose Nodes CPU cores / node GPUs / node Node RAM Jobs
30 days
 Wait Time
30-day trend
 Wall Time
30-day trend
ai Running artificial intelligence tasks 21 Intel Xeon Platinum 8468 (96 cores) 4 Nvidia H100 (80 GB vRAM) 1 TB 14,821
ai wait time: average 4.6 hours, range 0.1 to 21.3 hours over 30 days
ai wall time: average 1.2 hours, range 0.1 to 3.6 hours over 30 days, wall-time limit 48h

Software

No software usage data is currently reported for Anvil AI in XDMoD.

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Datasets

Name Description
AI

https://datasetdocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ai/index.html
Covariates

https://datasetdocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Covariates/index.html
Geospatial

https://datasetdocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/geospatial/index.html
Hydrological

https://datasetdocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hydrological/index.html
Genomes

https://datasetdocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/igenomes/index.html
Meteorological

https://datasetdocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/meteorological/index.html
GeoAI

https://datasetdocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/geoai/index.html

Storage

File System

Directory Path Quota Purge Backup Notes
Anvil ZFS /home Not Purged Home directories: area for storing personal software, scripts, compiling, editing, etc.
Anvil ZFS /apps Not purged Applications
Anvil GPFS /anvil
Anvil GPFS /anvil/scratch Files older than 30-day (access time) will be purged User scratch: area for job I/O activity, temporary storage
Anvil GPFS /anvil/projects Removed 90 days after allocation expiration Per allocation: area for shared data in a project, common datasets and software installation
Anvil GPFS /anvil/datasets Common data sets (not allocated to users)

External Storage

Files in scratch directories are not recoverable. Files in scratch directories are not backed up. If you accidentally delete a file, a disk crashes, or old files are purged, they cannot be restored.

$PROJECTspace. The project space will be created for each allocation. $PROJECT and $WORK variables refer to the same location and can be used interchangeably.

ANVIL CEPH

Anvil Ceph is intended to provide scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-throughput storage for large or persistent research data. It supports both object and block storage, making it suitable for hosting shared datasets, storing long-term research outputs, and enabling data access for containerized or cloud-integrated workflows. Ceph complements the Lustre-based storage tiers by offering durable and easily expandable storage for diverse data management needs.

Inspecting file system quotas

To check the quota of different file systems, type myquota at the command line.

For more information see the anvil user guide

https://docs.rcac.purdue.edu/userguides/anvil/file_management/

File Transfer

For more detailed information on transferring files, see the Anvil user guide https://docs.rcac.purdue.edu/userguides/anvil/file_management/#transferring-files

Supported Methods Data Transfer Node URL
SCP anvil.rcac.purdue.edu
RSYNC anvil.rcac.purdue.edu
GLOBUS anvil.rcac.purdue.edu
SFTP anvil.rcac.purdue.edu