Dell Technologies, Technological University of the Shannon collaborate on advanced AI platform
The Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) and Dell Technologies are collaborating on an AI platform that will advance research in cyber security, sustainability, healthcare and robotics.
TUS established the Software Research Institute (SRI) with the goal of developing a leading national research lab.
Additionally, the university is one of 17 research and development (R&D) centres in Ireland that runs research projects for the COMAND Technology Gateway in collaboration with Enterprise Ireland Innovation.
Based at SRI’s TUS Athlone campus, COMAND focuses on research and innovation in areas such as Augmenting User Interactions, end-to-end applications and intelligent infrastructure. Under the COMAND programme, the Dell-powered AI platform will be used to develop large language model-based chatbots to support projects around elderly care, automation of automotive assembly lines and robotics using imitation learning.
More broadly, the new platform will provide the university with powerful AI compute capabilities to support data-intensive research, helping to accelerate data analysis and automate repetitive tasks – boosting research productivity by up to 50%, according to studies.
The high-performance Dell PowerEdge servers are purpose-built for demanding AI workloads, delivering exceptional computing power. The servers feature a resilient architecture that offers multi-layered security to safeguard systems, detect threats, and ensure end-to-end data protection. This provides researchers with an IT environment that can simulate complex attacks, identify weaknesses in IT systems more efficiently and provide more accurate analysis on emerging cyber threats for organisations.
Dr Yuansong Qiao, senior research fellow, Software Research Institute, TUS, said: “Harnessing the power of AI has become increasingly important to advancing research in critical areas such as cybersecurity and robotics, which require analysis of increasingly large data sets. That’s why it’s crucial that TUS has the right infrastructure to manage the intensive workloads of advanced AI-powered research.
“Our collaboration with Dell Technologies delivers these capabilities and ensures that our researchers can now build highly complex AI models to examine and test more effective defense systems in cyber security and other domains.”
As part of its long-standing relationship with TUS, Dell has provided a range of cloud computing, data centre and infrastructure solutions to the university, as well as laptops and endpoint devices.
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