All Things AI – October 2025

Posted on By Daphne McCanse

Welcome to All Things AI, your quick-hit listing of opportunities, upcoming events, and training related to the NAIRR Pilot and other AI Initiatives. See the complete list of NAIRR Pilot Events and Training and subscribe now to the NAIRR Pilot Newsletter.

  • AI Researchers, Educators, and those that support them are invited to attend one of two webinars with updated guidance on “Requesting Resources via the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot”, taking place Tuesday, September 29, 4-5pm ET / 1-2pm PT and Thursday, October 9, 2-3pm ET / 11am-12pm PT. Registration is required to attend: September 29  or October 9
  • NAIRR Pilot Partner Series – MLCommons’ Croissant Thursday, October 2, 1-2pm ET. This session will highlight a powerful resource available through the NAIRR Pilot to accelerate your AI research. An introduction to Croissant, an open metadata vocabulary designed to make AI/ML datasets more discoverable, understandable, and reusable. Croissant provides a flexible framework that describes crucial information about data provenance, structure, licensing, and intended use.
  • Closing Knowledge Gaps with Vocareum AI Compass Thursday, October 2 Discover how Vocareum AI Compass brings personalized AI tutoring, instant feedback, and mastery learning to every student—while giving instructors powerful analytics and seamless LMS integration.
  • ACES: AlphaFold Protein Structure Prediction Tuesday, October 7 This short course (2.5 hours) will allow users to work through a hands-on tutorial covering how to run AlphaFold utilizing NVIDIA GPUs on the ACES cluster, a composable accelerator testbed at Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing.
  • COMPLECS: Interactive Computing Thursday, October 9 Topics covered will include mechanisms for accessing interactive resources, commonalities and differences between batch and interactive computing, understanding the differences between web-based services and X11/GUI applications, monitoring jobs running on interactive nodes, and an overview of Open OnDemand portals.
  • Voyager 101: Running AI Models on Voyager Tuesday, October 14 This tutorial will cover how to run an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, based on the Pytorch framework, on the Voyager supercomputer. Voyager comprises an innovative architecture to optimize AI applications thanks to its Intel Habana Gaudi accelerators.
  • NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute: Building AI Agents with Multimodal Models Thursday, October 16 Learn how to build neural network agents that reason across multiple data types using advanced fusion techniques, OCR, and NVIDIA AI Blueprints for real-world applications like robotics and healthcare.
  • COMPLECS: Linux Shell Scripting Thursday, October 23 Topics covered include an introduction to shells, shell scripting syntax, constructs and operators, and tips for effective Bash shell scripting.
  • ACES: Containers for Scientific Workflows (Singularity/Apptainer) Friday, October 31 This course introduces the use of containers for scientific workflows using the Singularity container engine. Exercises will be performed using the ACES cluster, a composable accelerator testbed at Texas A&M University
  • NSF Expanding National AI Infrastructure with New Data Systems and Resources
  • New NAIRR Pilot Resources Available: Voltage Park: Access to high-performance compute clusters powered by Nvidia HGX H100 GPUs.  Lexset: Custom visual synthetic datasets for computer vision model training and evaluation. Chameleon: Chameleon is an NSF-funded edge to cloud platform for computer science research, education, and emergent applications. Sage Edge Computing Platform: Sage is a distributed national testbed that enables AI research at the intersection of edge computing, real-time sensor data, and high-performance computing, with 60 nodes currently deployed throughout the US.
  • NSF CloudBank 2: Accelerating Science and Engineering Research in the Commercial Cloud.Expands the portfolio of NSF OAC-supported resources by providing access to a broad range of commercial cloud computing resources. NSF CloudBank 2 introduces new capabilities, including advanced accelerators and quantum computing platforms and will be accessible to researchers through the NSF Advanced CyberInfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services and Support program. 
  • There is now Updated Research Data Alliance (RDA) Guidance on AI Tools Usage. The updated guidance extends beyond Artificial Intelligence (AI) meeting assistants to cover different types of AI tools used in RDA meetings, events, and content creation, providing comprehensive guidelines for responsible and ethical AI use across Research Data Alliance activities.
  • New RDA Blog: Shaping Responsible AI, Four New Recommendations from the AIDV Working Group. 
  • Notre Dame AI Forum November 17-19. This intimate gathering of higher education IT leaders will focus on how organizations are approaching the opportunities and challenges posed by AI, grounded in an understanding of how the technology affects teaching and learning, research, and administration on college campuses. 

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation through  Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) NSF award #2436057. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.