ACCESS Resource Providers (RPs) continue to add to the portfolios of High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources they provide through the program. The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) at Purdue University recently announced another new application researchers can utilize for their work, AnvilGPT.

As you might expect, AnvilGPT is RCAC’s open-source large language model (LLM) service that is hosted entirely on-premises (on-prem). With an on-prem resource, researchers can do their work without having to share their data with third parties. This will allow researchers with grant-funded work that requires tight control of their data to use an LLM in their research. 

“AnvilGPT is great in that it is all hosted on our servers and utilizes the new GPUs being added through recent supplemental funding from the NSF,” says Sarah Rodenbeck, a lead research data scientist at RCAC and product lead of AnvilGPT. “Nothing is going to be used for further training of models or shared between groups, so researchers can be more comfortable uploading documents that may contain proprietary content or have restrictions on use.”

As with all the resources provided through the ACCESS program, getting an allocation to use AnvilGPT is free for the researcher. If you’re interested in an ACCESS allocation for your work, you can get started today on the ACCESS allocations page.

Read more about this story here: Introducing AnvilGPT: Anvil’s powerful new LLM service for researchers