{"id":2587,"date":"2022-10-15T05:52:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T05:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/2022\/10\/15\/ai-supercomputer-to-power-200-million-oregon-state-university-innovation-complex\/"},"modified":"2022-10-15T05:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T05:52:28","slug":"ai-supercomputer-to-power-200-million-oregon-state-university-innovation-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/2022\/10\/15\/ai-supercomputer-to-power-200-million-oregon-state-university-innovation-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Supercomputer to Power $200 Million Oregon State University Innovation Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As a civil engineer, Scott Ashford used explosives to make the ground under Japan\u2019s Sendai airport safer in an earthquake. Now, as the dean of the engineering college at Oregon State University, he\u2019s at ground zero of another seismic event.<\/p>\n

In its biggest fundraising celebration in nearly a decade, Oregon State announced plans today for a $200 million center where faculty and students can plug into resources that will include one of the world\u2019s fastest university supercomputers.<\/p>\n

The 150,000-square-foot center, due to open in 2025, will accelerate work at Oregon State\u2019s top-ranked programs in agriculture, computer sciences, climate science, forestry, oceanography, robotics, water resources, materials sciences and more with the help of AI.<\/p>\n

A Beacon in AI, Robotics<\/b><\/h2>\n

In honor of a $50 million gift to the OSU Foundation from NVIDIA\u2019s founder and CEO and his wife \u2014 who earned their engineering degrees at OSU and met in one of its labs \u2014 it will be named the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex (CIC).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CIC and new supercomputer will help Oregon State be recognized as one of the world\u2019s leading universities for AI, robotics and simulation,\u201d said Ashford, whose engineering college includes more than 10,000 of OSU\u2019s 35,000 students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe discovered our love for computer science and engineering at OSU,\u201d said Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang. \u201cWe hope this gift will help inspire future generations of students also to fall in love with technology and its capacity to change the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI is the most transformative technology of our time,\u201d they added. \u201cTo harness this force, engineering students need access to a supercomputer, a time machine, to accelerate their research. This new AI supercomputer will enable OSU students and researchers to make very important advances in climate science, oceanography, materials science, robotics and other fields.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Hub for Students<\/b><\/h2>\n

With an extended-reality theater, robotics and drone playground and a do-it-yourself maker space, the new complex is expected to attract students from across the university. \u201cIt has the potential to transform not only the college of engineering, but the entire university, and have a positive economic and environmental impact on the state and the nation,\u201d Ashford said.<\/p>\n

The three-story facility will include a clean room, as well as labs for materials scientists, environmental researchers and more.<\/p>\n

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Artist\u2019s rendering of the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ashford expects that over the next decade the center will attract top researchers, as well as research projects potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur donors and university leaders are excited about investing in a collaborative, transdisciplinary approach to problem solving and discovery \u2014 it will revitalize our engineering triangle and be an amazing place to study and conduct research,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A Forest of Opportunities<\/b><\/h2>\n

He gave several examples of the center\u2019s potential. Among them:<\/p>\n