The partnership will drive innovation in the areas of cybersecurity, sustainability, healthcare and robotics.
Dell Technologies and the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) have teamed up to build an AI platform focused on advanced research.
Paying particular attention to cybersecurity, sustainability, healthcare and robotics, the resource will support several projects undertaken by TUS and funded by the EU’s key research and innovation programme, Horizon Europe.
Projects include ResilMesh, which focuses on the cyber resilience of critical infrastructure and digital services. It aims to develop advanced tools and mechanisms to detect, prevent and respond to increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats.
Another supported project is SoilCrates, a research project dedicated to restoring and preserving soil health through soil literacy, real-time monitoring of soil structure, promotion of biodiversity and the optimisation of crop-growing conditions.
The new platform, which is powered by Dell PowerEdge servers, will enable researchers to gain insight into large datasets, develop advanced AI models and drive research.
TUS will contribute via the Software Research Institute (SRI), which was established with the goal of developing a leading national research lab and driving innovation in cybersecurity, cloud-edge computing, robotic control, smart agriculture and healthcare.
The new platform will enable the university to apply powerful AI capabilities to its data-intensive research, accelerate data analysis, automate repetitive tasks and boost productivity.
Commenting on the news, Dr Yuansong Qiao, senior research fellow at the SRI, 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 datasets.
“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 cybersecurity and other domains.”
Don’t miss out on the knowledge you need to succeed. Sign up for the Daily Brief, Silicon Republic’s digest of need-to-know sci-tech news.
