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Investment of €XXm in the various big AI centres etc
Spotlight on AI
UCD's world-leading experts in AI and intelligence-based technologies deliver creative solutions that impact all society and daily life.
Stacked! UCD's AI compute power
The AURA (Advanced UCD Research in Artificial Intelligence) is UCD's AI supercomputer that has GPU capacity of scale and power specifically for AI compute that is unique among Irish universities.
Capable of very high-end, high impact AI workloads, it can support research in diverse domains such as health (clinical imaging, digital twins and models integrating cancer and/or genomics data), cultural analytics (analysing vast volumes of literary texts), political analytics, business, weather and climate modelling and more - as advanced computer science including training models, LLMs, gen AI and recommender systems.
Besides the AURA, UCD has invested €1.45 million to upgrade its Sonic HPC cluster, to boost AI workload capacity across the whole university, which in addition to CeADAR's Leon cluster and AIMSIR stack, make UCD the most powerful campus for AI and HPC.
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UCD and Northeastern work towards Future of Healthcare
Technology is driving major advances in healthcare and health outcomes for people at all stages of life, across multiple strands including AI, machine learning and data analytics, health informatics, robotics, and Industry 5.0 (human-smart machines collaboration). UCD's Prof Patricia Maguire, Director of UCD AI Healthcare Hub and lead on the revolutionary AI_PREMie project, and Northeastern University's Prof Jared Auclair, Director of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Vice Provost for Research Economic Development, answer questions on the Future of Healthcare. Read the article.
UCD, IBM and Mastercard in Irish quantum computing project
Some of the biggest names in tech and research have joined forces with the aim of bolstering Ireland’s quantum computer efforts. The €11.1m Quantum Computing in Ireland (QCoIr) initiative will work on a software platform integrating multiple quantum bit technologies being developed in Ireland. Partners include Equal1 Labs, IBM, Rockley Photonics, Maynooth University, the Tyndall National Institute, UCD and Mastercard. The project received funding under the State's Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund, a €500m fund established under Project Ireland 2040. (opens in a new window)Read the article in Silicon Republic.