We have just completed a major expansion to the URI portion of Unity. This was funded via a federal grant that we were fortunate enough to receive. Here are the details of the hardware expansion: With this expansion, we have added 1,600+ CPU cores — this could not have come at a better time since we have […]
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https://www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-nvidia-partnership-enables-ai2-develop-fully-open-ai
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Congratulations to our very own Dr. Hendawi!https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/09/open-ai-chat-gpt5-energy-use If you’re curious about the carbon cost of AI or passionate about sustainable tech, give the published paper a read and share your thoughts!
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New funding opportunity from NSF https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/pcl-test-bed-test-bed-toward-network-programmable-cloud-laboratories/nsf25-541/solicitation
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https://www.nsf.gov/news/statement-nsf-chief-staff-brian-stone-performing-duties-nsf?sf227755246=1
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https://www.uri.edu/news/2025/07/rhode-island-legislators-approve-crucial-appropriation-for-unique-weather-related-tools-at-uri/
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The Center for Computational Research (CCR) is now the Institute for AI & Computational Research (IACR) – uniting CCR, ITS Research Computing, and the URI AI Lab under one banner. The Institute designation better recognizes the Center’s university-wide impact and close external partnerships with regional research universities.
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