Cultivating Multidisciplinary AI Workforce Development on iTiger GPU Cluster: Practices and Challenges

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To support rapid AI advances and broaden access to large-scale computing resources for under-resourced institutions at the Mid-South, we established the first regional mid-scale GPU cluster at the University of Memphis (UofM), iTiger.

• We present and analyze efforts of infrastructure management and computational support for educators, students, and researchers across scientific and engineering disciplines, such as precision agriculture, smart transportation, and health informatics.
• We outline our initiatives to broaden cluster adoption on research and education, such as seed grant programs, workshop trainings, course integration, and other outreach activities.
• We also identify challenges and further discuss findings of GPU infrastructure adoptions among college students and multidisciplinary researchers.