For more than a year, Swarthmore and Lafayette College have been working on an ambitious plan to merge our respective high-performance computing (HPC) environments. After much hard work on the part of extensive teams at both institutions, we are pleased … Continue reading Firebird Rising
For the last few years, generative AI has been all the proverbial rage and is forecast to grow by 10x in the next few years. One dark side to AI is that it is fundamentally antithetical to sustainability: ever-growing training … Continue reading Generative AI with a Side of Nuclear Fusion, Please!
Do you ever wish that you had access to a more powerful computer than your personal system? Perhaps you need additional memory, processors, storage, or even a GPU to tackle a pesky research project. Or maybe you can’t reliably run … Continue reading Need a Personal Research Computer? Consider JetStream2!
You may not know the term “hyperscaler,” but you certainly know who they are: Meta, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft. These companies have stratospheric market caps and spend billions on AI and cloud computing annually. Their combined influence and spending … Continue reading Effects of Hyperscalers on Research Computing
Did you know that NSF supports programs to connect researchers with mentors and graduate students who can provide guidance for a range of computational projects? Research projects, regardless of discipline, require increasingly robust computational approaches and complex data workflows, and … Continue reading MATCH and CAREERS: NSF Programs Offering Personalized Guidance for Computational Research
For many years, users at institutions subscribing to Google’s suite of tools enjoyed effectively unlimited data storage within Google Drive. Seriously, there was a time when the only hard limit was 1 terabyte(!) per file. For researchers needing to store … Continue reading Research Data Storage Options in a Post-Google World
