The College of Engineering went live with the HPC system in April, piloting it in two undergraduate courses led by Ghassan AlRegib, a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering: a machine learning (ML) class and a Foundations of AI class open to all second-year students. In that class, one assignment is to build an AI application that can tell users their location on campus from a photograph of their surroundings, Bloch says.
“The goal with that class is to make AI accessible — and to some extent, understandable — to students who do not have a specialized computer science background,” he says.
This school year, about 10 courses will make use of the AI Makerspace, including College of Computing classes. The university is also encouraging faculty in Georgia Tech’s other colleges to take advantage of the supercomputer.
Previously, faculty in about 60…