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More metrics and more dashboards mean more ways for researchers to identify actionable improvements. Optimizing the performance, stability, and resource utilization of large language model (LLM) deployments is a challenge for both users and cluster administrators. The Mass Open Cloud (MOC) now supports the ability to collect inference performance metrics for LLMs deployed in our […]
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A shared national AI research infrastructure may be coming to a galaxy not so far away. Human time scales are slow—really slow. In the time it takes to type that sentence, one of the H100 GPUs powering a nearby academic datacenter has roughly 10 billion cycles to consider its place in the universe. Of course, […]
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The convergence of high-performance research computing and general-purpose IT is turning conventional wisdom on its head. High-Performance Computing (HPC) and general-purpose IT infrastructure have always been very different. This difference is very visible at top universities, which maintain both types of environments: HPC clusters dedicated to research, often managed by a small team of two […]
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The US is betting on open source to accelerate innovation in AI. Red Hat, the Mass Open Cloud, and IBM Research, as members of the AI Alliance, are supporting promising AI research for the National AI Research Resource Pilot. According to the 2025 AI Index Report1, GitHub contained approximately 4.3 million open source AI projects […]
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Ask Gen AI to design a CIO action figure, and you might get a guy in a dark suit with a briefcase and laptop as accessories. That won’t give you an accurate idea of Boston University CIO Chris Sedore, who’s held the post at Syracuse University, University of Texas at Austin, and Tufts University. You […]
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Red Hat Research, the Mass Open Cloud (MOC), and IBM Research launched a new collaborative effort with eight US university research projects to advance the National Science Foundation’s National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Deep Partnership Program. As members of the AI Alliance, the three groups are already major contributors to projects for building, operating, and […]
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We are excited to announce that the Mass Open Cloud, Red Hat, and IBM Research are collaborating to support the new IBM-AI Alliance NAIRR Pilot Deep Partnership projects. With the backing of the US National Science Foundation, the program will provide computing resources and open source AI assets to NAIRR pilot researchers and educators to advance […]
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In this issue of RHRQ, we have a provocative discussion between Brian Stevens, AI CTO for Red Hat, and Ion Stoica, a professor at the University of California-Berkeley and director of Sky Lab. It’s a great conversation between two people who have had a transformative influence on distributed systems, cloud computing, and, most recently, AI. […]
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On February 24, Red Hat announced the launch of the the Griot and Grits Project, an open source project developed in collaboration with Red Hat, Shaw University, the Mass Open Cloud and other cultural experts, educational leaders, and institutions to use the power of AI and open source to preserve Black history that would otherwise […]
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High-impact AI solutions to global challenges are within reach. Here’s how Massachusetts’ big bet on equity and collaboration helps. By Orran Krieger Opportunities for AI development in open source got a big boost in December when Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed the Mass Leads Act supporting the creation of a Massachusetts AI Hub. The AI […]
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