UFIT Research Computing has a team of 18 very dedicated people supporting research and education on UF's supercomputer HiPerGator. Now it has 7 open positions to help build the infrastructure and support for the University's AI Initiative in partnership with NVIDIA announced on July 21, see the press release. The arrival of the 3.0 upgrade to HiPerGator and the addition of HiPerGator AI powered by a 140 node NVIDIA DGX A100 SuperPOD puts UF at the top of the academic infrastructure for AI. Here are the technical details. The HiPerGator AI cluster powered by NVIDIA has significant computing power, but also adds complexity to the systems operated by UFIT RC.

You are invited to submit papers for the PEARC20 Conference – Catch the wave that will be held in Portland, July 26–30, 2020. Presentations may address any topic related to advanced research computing, but topics consistent with one or more of the following four technical tracks are of particular interest. Proposals may take several forms as indicated below. Advanced research computing environments – systems and system software: Practice and experience relating to the system (computing hardware, storage hardware, visualization hardware, and network hardware) and system software that drives the "hardware" side of cyberinfrastructure and research computing environments. Examples of relevant topics: GPUs, CPUs, and FPGAs as computational environments; experience with advanced storage systems; hardware and systems for data-centric computing; networking challenges; design and use of visualization environments; funding and operating of advanced research computing facilities (including considerations of cost of locally-sited hardware vs remote hardware such as cloud facilities), systems procurement, systems administration, cybersecurity, practice and experience in facilitating the acquisition, operation, and use of advanced hardware, software, networks and services to securely and sustainably advance research, scholarship, and creativity; performance comparisons and performance aspects of cloud environments.