Whoever runs the GPUs should run the AI strategy

Diagram of the role: under the SVP and CIO, the Sr. Director of Research Computing owns compute and advises on AI across research, clinical care, education and administration

Bar chart of the posting’s 36 duties grouped by Deployed: resilience, risk and finance 9; AI strategy and governance 7; researchers, grants and talent 7; compute and cloud 6; data…

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1. UT San Antonio's new Sr. Director of Research Computing is also named the institution's principal advisor on AI, across research, clinical, educational and administrative work.
2. The same role runs HPC, GPU clusters, secure enclaves, four cloud platforms and the link to the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
3. CIO Michael Schnabel has warned that consumption-based AI pricing can create budget problems years after a tool goes live.
4. The case against: clinical AI decisions would sit with a research-infrastructure leader below the C-suite.