Announcements

The Office of Research Cyberinfrastructure is excited to announce the launch of GitHub Enterprise for Research, a no-cost service for UCF researchers. This service is now available to all researchers working on university-approved projects that are classified as using unrestricted data in the UCF data classification matrix. GitHub Enterprise for Research offers version control and…

Users who wish to access the Research Computing and Data module must first self-enroll to the webcourse before accessing the module. For more information, click here.

The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) has opened its Fall 2024 call for proposals, focusing on specific research areas: AI for Information Security, Automated Reasoning, Generative AI, Governance and Responsible AI, ML Compilers, Distributed Training, AWS Cryptography, and Sustainability. Researchers are encouraged to submit proposals that address these topics and demonstrate potential for significant societal impact.…

CloudBank is resuming the DCL 22-087 funding opportunity for active CISE awardees. PIs may request funds in the amount up to $5000 per 6 months for cloud computing resources to use on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Cloud. Please apply on the CloudBank website if you are interested or email…

We’re excited to share that Google Cloud funding is now available for AI-related research projects through the NAIRR pilot, managed by NSF CloudBank. We encourage researchers to apply promptly, as resources are limited and requests will be fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis. For additional questions or support with your proposal, the Research IT Team…

The Networking and Wireless Systems Lab (NWSL) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) is seeking full-time Ph.D. candidates for Fall 2024. If you are a motivated Ph.D. student with an interest in computer communications and networking, consider applying. Visit our Research Job Postings page for more information and application instructions.

Thanks to the Office of Research, UCF is now providing unlimited campus wide access to MATLAB, Simulink, and additional MathWorks products on and off campus, on any device. This suite of products supports all students, educators, and researchers within UCF. This campus-wide license includes analysis, design, modeling, simulation, code generation, and testing products for the…

For Spring 2023, we are pleased to bring to the UCF Research community a series of workshops on scientific computing and research data management. These workshops are being jointly presented by UCF Library, UCF Graduate and Research IT, and UCF Advanced Research Computing Center (ARCC). Spring 2023 workshops run January through April. View upcoming workshops here: link.

“Whereas a typical IT department would set up general-purpose tools and areas that anyone can use, our team supports research,” says Chaudhry. For example, she says, every project must be considered on a granular level, looking at what capabilities the researcher needs – such as the ability to collaborate with other institutions – and how…

With data scientists in increasingly high demand, the paper examines some of the key factors that influence career-related decisions for research computing and data professionals. Full story

A collaboration among UCF, the Arecibo Observatory and others wins Best High-Performance Computing (HPC) Collaboration Recognition for their efforts to preserve 50 years of data at the observatory. Full story by Zenaida Gonzalez Kotala

We are excited to share that two of the 17 teams who were awarded the Jump Start Award from President Cartwright’s strategic investment program are focused on enhancing UCF’s research cyberinfrastructure. Excerpt from UCF News by Zenaida Gonzalez Kotala below; full article available here. Enabling Big Data and Computational Science via High-Throughput Networking Lead: Dr. Shafaq Chaudhry,…

In 2021, we are pleased to bring to the UCF Research community a series of workshops on scientific computing and research data management. These workshops are being jointly presented by UCF Library, UCF Graduate and Research IT, and UCF Advanced Research Computing Center (ARCC). Please check back for new/updated information.

The UCF Advanced Research Computing Center (ARCC) is pleased to announce a new file server to support research workloads where read I/O can be a significant bottleneck, such as GPU-based deep-learning tasks related to computer vision. The NVME-based file server hosts curated datasets for fast, read-only processing. This resource was made possible by contributions from…

If you have a need to share your research data files with external collaborators or wish to transfer large datasets to the computing clusters at UCF Advanced Research Computing Center (ARCC) or national resources like XSEDE, you can use Globus/GridFTP. The site-wide Globus subscription is being sponsored by Office of Research. For more information on…