By Aida T. Miró-Herrans, Natya Hans and Borui Zhang
Free access to HiPerGator — the most powerful supercomputer owned and operated by a U.S. university — is giving UF students a major leg up among their peers when it comes to conducting groundbreaking research.
Due to a collaboration called the Library HiPerGator Sponsorship Program — between UF’s George A. Smathers Libraries and UFIT Research Computing — select undergraduate and graduate students can conduct high-performance computing and data-intensive research, with fully individualized librarian support and without any funding costs.
This effort is part of a longstanding collaboration between UF and NVIDIA, the technology giant co-founded by UF alum Chris Malachowsky, to integrate AI into the curriculum. With the help of resources like HiPerGator, more than 100 new AI faculty members and hundreds of students are currently engaged in AI education across UF’s 16 colleges.
