Research Facilities of the AI Institute

Recent advances in machine learning strongly depend upon sophisticated computational resources, primarily GPU clusters and advanced parallel computing facilities. The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Stony Brook University, a research university, with a major research instrumentation (MRI) grant in order to build a heterogeneous computing infrastructure to support machine learning research. The AI Cluster serves as a primary resource for researchers across AI related disciplines at Stony Brook University, in order to develop their research with efficacy and efficiency.

Since its inception, the AI heterogeneous GPU cluster includes: 1. An eight GPU DGX A100, 2. Large memory (1.5 TB RAM compute server), 3. A four node cluster with an additional 32 GPUs. The accessibility of this cluster has enriched research efforts across an array of disciplines such as: Artificial Intelligence (Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning), scientific disciplines (Biomedical Informatics, Chemistry, Ecology, and Linguistics), and Computer Science. Access to the cluster is available for all students and faculty affiliated with the AI Institute. 

Research activities are primarily conducted in the New Computer Science Building, which opened in July 2015. The new facility comprises a total of 70,000 square feet and consists of 20,000 square feet dedicated to 18 research labs, including the Data Science Laboratory, NLP Lab, and Center for Dynamic Data Analytics.

Research Labs

CEWIT:

The AI Institute maintains a substantial lab space in CEWIT, a $250M government/industry/academic partnership awarded to Stony Brook University by the State of New York in 2001. CEWIT offers 100,000 square feet of lab and incubator space and has 15,000 square feet of active R&D lab space on the main campus. Research labs at CEWIT are focused on big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data mining, is also home to the CS Department’s Immersive Cabin and Reality Deck.  The Reality Deck is a large room-sized (40’x30’x11’) giga-pixel immersive environment capable of approaching the visual acuity of the human eye by providing over 1.5 billion pixels.  The Reality Deck consists of: 416 27” monitors using WQHD (2560x1440) resolution; 20 node visualization cluster with each node including 4 high-end GPUs and dual hexa-core processors; and a 56Gbs InfiniBand FDR application network.

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