Received a wonderful note from Dr. Ginis: Pranav Sai received the award for the best abstract at PEARC24 held in Providence last summer. He presented RICHAMP and its implementation on URI nodes at MGHPCC for real-time storm forecasting. 

A state-of-the-art neutral atom quantum computer, facilitating open-access research, hardware innovation, and hands-on training for students.

UNITY HPC/AI resources expanded by 50% with 1,000 new CPU cores and 24 advanced GPUs, enhancing research capabilities at URI.

Matt Paolella, a CCR-supported student, received the Moissan Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the American Chemical Society.

URI receives $795,000 boost for high performance computing and cybersecurity

Join us on October 11th for an interdisciplinary speed networking event to explore research collaborations in AI, quantum, and computational innovation. Register by October 4th to secure your spot!

The Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship Program recognizes and promotes leaders and advocates of high-quality software.

A “Quick Start Guide” for Unity HPC/AI system at MGHPCC.

Workshop series covering topics like Python, R, Statistics Software, Unity HPC and more.

There is funding available for student travel to the major Supercomputing ’24 conference (Atlanta) this November and IPDPS conference (Milan, Italy) in June ’25.

Planning Grants funded through this DCL are expected to cultivate research teams that actively address the expansion or enhancement of an existing test bed to evaluate the impact on and interaction with users of novel AI methods. 

Black holes are mysterious, yet also deceptively simple − a new space mission may help physicists answer hairy questions about these astronomical objects.

The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot has opened calls for projects with a 12 month duration for computational resources.

UNITY HPC shutdown next week (May 20 — 24) to coincide with the annual MGHPCC shutdown.

Recordings of all the workshops we ran including R, SAS, SPSS, Python, Bioinformatics, Unity and others.

GSO Professor Roxanne Beinart awarded international research grant to investigate symbiotic relationships among microorganisms

Two computational research conferences coming up in the next few months: PEARC and IEEE HPEC.

Don’t be left in the dark: URI professor provides lowdown on Monday’s total solar eclipse

Join us for the third AI-Big Data Forum at URI.

We are seeking students to submit posters to be shown to the university community that describe computationally enhanced research and projects that students are working on this semester.

Dr. Alvarez on “Transforming Research and Higher Education with Generative AI and Foundation Models”

Dr. Brown on “How to anticipate risks in AI-enhanced research”

AI Fireside Chat — Accelerating Materials Design and Discovery Using Machine Learning. Thursday February 29 12:30-1:30 – Conference Room A, Library

URI physics professor Gaurav Khanna, Ph.D., an expert in black holes and gravitational waves, co-authored a waveform modeling white paper for the LISA project.

Fireside chat with Chris Hemme on Feb 1st with the title, The Changing Paradigm of Bioinformatics: Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, and Multiomics.

Our Research Computing / AI Lab Spring ’24 semester workshop program can be found now on the URI Events Calendar: https://events.uri.edu/group/ai/calendar/ 

ITS Research Computing & Center for Computational Research have relocated to Library 227 (formerly DataSpark space). This makes our team much more accessible.

List of funding opportunities for AI related research. Agencies include NSF, NIH and DoD.

Please mark your calendars for a major AI event on Feb 22nd led by the Harrington School and partially funded by our Center. A reception and keynote by Dr. Ruha Benjamin from Princeton!

New tutorial on using Unity — our new HPC/AI platform that is a collaborative, multi-institutional high-performance computing cluster located at the MGHPCC.

URI is the anchor institution for CAREERS in Rhode Island and this academic year ’23 — ’24 is leading 12 distinct research projects within this program in a wide variety of disciplines.

Dr. Fang Wang just sent us a copy of his new paper that utilized URI HPC facilities.

The MGHPCC will be showcasing several computational projects from URI at their Booth in the large Supercomputing ’23 Conference in Denver next month.

Live tracking of hurricane Lee using UNITY — our HPC system at MGHPCC.

A fellowships program open to all undergraduate students with an emphasis on computing.

The first lecture of the AI distinguished speaker series, delivered by Prof. Rada Mihalcea.

A major new initiative that invests funds back into the URI computational researchers community.

See some of the research computing workshops you can take this fall.

Fall research computing workshops — more coming soon!

AI and Business Analytics, College of Business & Center for Computational Research/Research Computing/ITS invite you to four informal discussions around AI.

URI invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position with a focus on quantum computing.

A UNITY team get together at the MGHPCC in Holyoke, MA.

Unity facilitator Cecile Cres of the University of Rhode Island will present a workshop on ColabFold.

  Discerning Watershed Response to Hydroclimatic Extremes with a Deep Convolutional Residual Regressive Neural Network by Albert Larson Abdeltawab Hendawi Thomas Boving Soni M. Pradhanang Ali S. Akanda   Hydrology 2023, 10(6), 116; https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology10060116 (registering DOI) https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5338/10/6/116  

HPEC is the largest computing conference in New England and is the premier conference in the world on the convergence of High Performance and Embedded Computing. We are passionate about performance. Our community is interested in computing hardware, software, systems and applications where performance matters. We welcome experts and people who are new to the […]

The ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing (EWL/TC) is an annual award open to any woman who has engaged in technical computing research, education, and/or practice for 5-15 years since receiving her highest degree. See additional eligibility information, and read ‘how to nominate’ at this link. Nominations are due by June 30th.

An HPC Bootcamp for students is being hosted at National Energy Research Scientific Computer Center (NERSC) during August 7-11. The deadline for applications is May 22nd. Selected participants are eligible to receive housing, travel, per diem, and a $500 stipend.   

Is Time Travel Possible? The laws of physics allow time travel. So why haven’t people become chronological hoppers? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-time-travel-possible/

Yang Shen’s GSO research group student, Xiaozhuo Wei, defended his PhD thesis this week and published 4 papers in high-end Seismology journals: 1. X. Wei, Y. Shen, and J. K. Morgan, Shallow volcano-tectonic structures on the Island of Hawai‘i imaged by multimode Rayleigh wave ambient noise tomography, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, accepted. 2. X. […]

The first publication that officially acknowledges support from the URI Center for Computational Research (CCR) has been published in the journal, Biomolecules. Congratulations to PhD student Cecile Cres (who also works on our ITRCS team!) and Dr. Ying Zhang of CELS!!! The paper is titled “DL-TODA: A Deep Learning Tool for Omics Data Analysis” and […]

Could you transform your research with vast amounts of computing? Learn how this summer at the lovely University of Wisconsin–Madison During the School, August 7–11, you will learn to use high-throughput computing (HTC) systems — at your own campus or using the national-scale Open Science Pool — to run large-scale computing applications that are at the […]

Invitation to a Data Science and AI Speed Dating Event University of Rhode Island March 10, 2023, 9:30-noon Hardge Forum Room, Multicultural Center 74 Lower College Road, Kingston, RI 02881 Center for Computational Research, ITS URI Big Data Initiative, URI Library College of Business, Business Analytics and AI URI Division of Research and Economic Development […]

Dr. Kei Inomura publishes in Nature and the paper officially acknowledges support from our own Kevin Bryan. Full paper can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01066-2 Read a URI press release on the paper here: URI researcher-led study opens oceans of possibilities

URI Center for Computational Research formed on Kingston Campus

The Physics Department in the College of Arts and Science launched a Quantum Initiative in 2021 with several new graduate degree programs on quantum computing.  There has been tremendous progress in quantum information sciences (QIS) in recent years, including recent advancement in application areas including fluid simulations, signal processing, machine learning etc. URI plans to […]

URI research computing is closing out 2022 on a high note! We have a major update to announce today. 🙂 Our $1M new hardware is now fully operational and available for use in UNITY. A huge thanks to Kevin for working extremely hard to get this accomplished alongside our MGHPCC partners, especially UMass Amherst. As a reminder, this […]

Dr. Fang Wang used URI HPC to publish a research paper in the “Bioconjugate Chemistry” journal of the American Chemical Society (ACM). The full citation of the paper appears below: B. M. Lipka, V. M. Betti, D. S. Honeycutt, D. L. Zelmanovich, M. Adamczyk, R. Wu, H. S. Blume, C. A. Mendina, J. M. Goldberg, […]

  The New Frontiers Initiative is calling for applications for its New Frontiers Graduate Fellowships that will occur between August 2023 and July 2024. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the fellowships provide doctoral students with a year of full-time research support, including a $38,000 stipend, up to $12,000 in tuition allowance and an allocation of 50,000 hours on […]

2023 FUTURE COMPUTING SUMMER INTERNSHIP (FCSI) AT THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA) June 12, 2023 – August 4, 2023 in Catonsville, MD Application Window: October 31st, 2022 – 11:59pm ET on January 31st 2023 For the 2nd consecutive year, the Advanced Computing Systems Research Program (ACS) in the NSA Research Directorate is joining with their counterparts […]

The Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is a collaboration of the five major research universities in Massachusetts including Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern and UMass. The collaboration built a dedicated data center in 2012 located in Holyoke, MA that hosts the research computing infrastructure of these universities. In addition, the MGHPCC also leads other activities that enhance research computing in the region […]

URI received a warm welcome at the MGHPCC HPC Day (9/9/22) at UMass Lowell as first-time attendees thanks to being new members of the MGHPCC.  The speaker from URI was Dr. Isaac Ginis from GSO who spoke about his long-running major research effort RI-CHAMP. The title of Dr. Ginis’ talk was “Coastal Hazards, Analysis, Modeling, […]

URI Ph.D. student Marwan Abdelatti just published a paper in the 2022 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference to be held in Waltham, MA.  Marwan’s advisor is Dr. Manbir Sodhi in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering in the URI College of Engineering. Marwan’s paper is titled “A Multi-GPU Parallel Genetic Algorithm For Large-Scale Vehicle […]

This 1-day free event this year will be held in-person at UMass Lowell on Sept. 9th: https://www.uml.edu/conferences/hpc-2022. Please do register soon for networking with other computational researchers in the region and sharing your work! 🙂 

Elizabeth on our team is offering beginner classes on R and SAS this month. Here are the details    R Beginner Class: Dates: Monday, August 15th from 9am-10am and Friday, August 26 from 3:00PM-4:00PM. Description: This one-time Beginner’s Course will help build a foundation for understanding R and R-Studio. This course will cover the basics […]