Welcome to the Center for Computational Research (CCR) at the University of Rhode Island — a collaboratively funded effort by central IT Services (ITS), the Vice President for Research (VPR) and faculty contributions through research grants.

The Center’s mission is to support, promote and grow high-level interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary computational research — high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), data science (Data) and quantum computing (Quantum) — across URI campuses and in the region. The computational work of over 150 faculty researchers is supported by this Center.

ITS Research Computing

Research computing infrastructure, support and team.

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Faculty

Faculty researchers that are affiliated with the Center.

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AI Lab, BigData Groups

AI Lab, BigData events, seminars, workshops & more.

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The Center has an internal advisory group of key URI faculty members: Drs. Steve D’Hondt (Oceanography); Ying Zhang (Life Sciences), Thomas Stubblefield (Associate Dean, College of A&S) and Drew Zhang (Alfred J. Verrecchia Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics). The Center also collaborates closely with the Massachusetts High-Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC).

Email us at itrcs-group@uri.edu with questions, comments, suggestions — anything!

News

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  Summer ’25 AI Lab Student Projects
  We are happy to share the wide variety of completed student projects in the AI Lab over Summer ’25: https://web.uri.edu/iacr/ai-lab-projects-summer-25/
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  Fall ’25 Workshops
  The details of our Fall ’25 semester workshops appear below. These are open to faculty, staff, and students and are totally free. https://docs.unity.uri.edu/news/2025/08/uri-fall-25-workshops/ They also appear on the URI events calendar (and subscribe): https://events.uri.edu/group/ai We have some relatively new workshop offerings on AI Tools and Bioinformatics. We also have a new workshop on MPI parallel… Read more: Fall ’25 Workshops
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  Unity Cluster Expansion Boosts Performance and Efficiency for URI Researchers
  New Intel and Nvidia nodes expand the Unity Cluster, boosting performance and energy efficiency for URI researchers.
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  ITS Research Computing Supports Critical State Weather Services
  State-funded weather tools like CHAMP and StormTools rely on ITS Research Computing to deliver critical modeling and flood risk data for Rhode Island.
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  CCR is now an Institute!
  The Center for Computational Research (CCR) is now the Institute for AI & Computational Research (IACR).