SUNY Poly in Utica Opens a 24-GPU Research Computer to Faculty Projects
Heavy computing work that used to mean renting time elsewhere or waiting days on a laptop can now run on the SUNY Poly campus, which helps the college pitch itself to researchers and AI-minded students in the Mohawk Valley.
SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica now has its own high-performance computing system for faculty research, the Utica Phoenix reported on Nov. 4, 2026. The college's IT department built and set it up; a cost and funding source weren't published.
| Spec | Detail |
|---|---|
| GPUs | 24 NVIDIA cards, including A100 and H100 models |
| Servers | Six computing nodes plus one management server |
| Per server | 128 CPU cores, 1 TB of memory |
| Storage | About one petabyte |
Who can use it: faculty-led research first. Students can work on it only under a professor's supervision.
What it's doing so far: a biology professor used it to assemble genome data from 106 primates to study how DNA changes with age, and the co-director of the college's AI center is training AI models on it. He said a job that ran three days on a laptop now finishes in a few hours.
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