Technical Demonstrations

The Research Computing Center uses cutting edge technologies and software. The technical demonstration part of Mind Bytes will give visitors the chance to see some of these in a hand on environment. Experts will be available to talk you through the use of these technologies and answer any questions you have.

3D Simulation of a Smart Hospital Room (powered by NVIDIA Omniverse)

Mark III (NVIDIA Elite Partner) and NVIDIA are excited to partner with the University of Chicago at Mind Bytes 2023 to showcase a live demo of a 3D Simulation of a Labor and Delivery Room inside a Smart Hospital, built and powered by NVIDIA Omniverse. The live demo will offer attendees the ability to experience the room live through a VR headset (Meta Quest 2), which will be integrated through Omniverse Create XR and Omniverse Nucleus (powered by a combination of NVIDIA RTX and A40 GPUs). This 3D Simulation is the first incremental step on the multi-year road to a digital twin of a hospital, of which NVIDIA Omniverse will serve as the open ecosystem “hub” to enable the “crowdsourcing” of 3D assets and designs to accelerate this vision. Come see why Omniverse as an open ecosystem “hub” for 3D simulation, digital twins, and AR/VR/XR can dramatically accelerate any collaborative research initiative that involves visualization or 3D simulation.

Voxon VX1 Volumetric Display

Voxon

The Voxon volumetric display builds a model using millions of points of light. The result is a fully interactive digital “hologram” that can be viewed from any angle, without special glasses or headgear. The technology brings digital content to life and helps empower people to visualize, communicate, learn, and have fun in a collaborative manner.

Image and text courtesy of Voxon.

Skyway: Enabling Cloud Resources at the RCC

If you have been interested in using the cloud for your research but unsure how to get started, visit our Skyway demo. Skyway is an integrated platform developed at the RCC to allow users to burst computing workloads from the on-premise RCC cluster, Midway, to remote commercial cloud resources. With Skyway, users run computing tasks in the cloud in the same manner as they do on Midway without worrying about the specifics of individual cloud providers requesting resources. Since the user does not need to setup or manage cloud resources themselves, the results include improved productivity with a minimum learning curve and enhanced flexibility in cloud access.

Amazon SageMaker and Generative AI

SageMaker

Come visit the AWS table to interact with Amazon SageMaker, a managed service that helps data scientists and developers quickly and easily build and train machine learning models. For our demonstration, the AWS team will use a Stable Diffusion model hosted on Sagemaker to generate arbitrary images from text prompts. You will be able to interact with SageMaker and generate your own images. We will also use Amazon Rekognition to detect objects in those generated images.

LiCO by Lenovo

Interested in Generative AI applications that can answer questions? In this demonstration we show how to customize either ChatGPT or a locally running Large Language Model to your specific research area. We do this inside an AI development software called LiCO (Lenovo Intelligent Computing Orchestration) and running on Lenovo servers.

Still have questions?

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