
CCS RCD Seminar – January 30, 2024
January 30, 20243:00 pm – Refreshments3:30 pm – Presentation Speaker:Jim Griffioen, CCS and Computer Science Department, University of Kentucky Where: Davis Marksbury Building – James F. Hardymon Theatre (Zoom link: https://uky.zoom.us/s/84474671604) Title:The State of Research Computing and Data (RCD) at UK and Beyond Abstract:There has been an explosive growth in the use of, and need for, advanced CyberInfrastructure (CI) required by today’s researchers – growth accelerated, in large part, by the wide-spread use of big data and artificial intelligence (AI). Almost every research domain has been impacted by easy access to powerful computing systems, large data sets and knowledge bases coupled with powerful software tools and models supporting data analytics, simulation/modeling, and AI. Supercomputers focused on High Performance Computing (HPC) are now only part of the CI landscape and have…