The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) is a vision for a shared national research infrastructure for responsible discovery and innovation in AI.
The NAIRR pilot brings together computational, data, software, model, training and user support resources to demonstrate and investigate all major elements of the NAIRR vision first laid out by the NAIRR Task Force.
Led by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in partnership with 10 other federal agencies and 25 non-governmental partners, the pilot makes available government-funded, industry and other contributed resources in support of the nation’s research and education community.
FABRIC is a distributed network and computing facility with equipment at 35 sites that offers the following capabilities for AI experimenters who are applying for NAIRR Pilot resources:
- Robust in-network processing capabilities, including the availability of FPGAs.
- Ability to simulate edge use cases to conduct inferencing or federated learning and training.
- Distributed computing and storage on which to test out distributed AI paradigms or conduct training and inferencing.
- Flexible Jupyter notebooks.
- Precision timing for packet level time stamping of data.
- Ideal facilities and data sources for performing reinforcement learning for autonomous cyber security analysis, response and defense or adversarial AI experiments.
- Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities between FABRIC sites.
- Large capacity data plane with ability to instrument and collect data for experimenters.
- Connectivity to multiple types of resources: High Performance Computing, Cloud and campuses.
To learn more about NAIRR, check out the NAIRR website and NSF program page.