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Cyberinfrastructure

AAII helps UTEP faculty, researchers, and students secure and use high-performance computing resources.

The large-format display wall in the Visualization Lab, Interdisciplinary Research Building Room 2.215.

Visualization Wall

A high-resolution, large-format display environment for scientific data exploration, multidisciplinary collaboration, and high-profile presentations.

Requesting access requires a UTEP sign-in.

Server racks for UTEP high-performance computing.

High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Provides high-performance computing capacity for running AI models, scientific simulations, and large-scale data processing workloads.

Tools and Software

AAII offers training and support in the use of the following tools and platforms.

Models and Workflows

Multimodal open-source models

Models that integrate multiple sources of information (e.g., images, text, audio) to more effectively address machine-learning tasks, including the fusion of data from multiple sensors and cross-modal analysis.

Multimodal open-source models and their categories
Model Category
OpenCLIP (opens in a new tab) Vision-Language encoder
BLIP-2 (LAVIS) (opens in a new tab) Vision → Text / Instruction tuning
LLaVA (opens in a new tab) Multimodal LLM (image+text)
Stable Diffusion (opens in a new tab) Text → Image
Whisper (opens in a new tab) Speech → Text
OpenMMLab (opens in a new tab) Computer vision toolbox
Llama (opens in a new tab) Language understanding, reasoning, and text generation

Scientific workflow

Connect data, models, and simulations into reproducible AI-enabled research pipelines.

Screenshot of the SWIM web platform.

SWIM (Scientific Workflow Integration & Management)

A platform that connects scientific models with the data they need, providing cloud hosting and an easy-to-use interface for integration, execution and interpretation of water models.

Active models in SWIM

Middle Rio Grande Water Balance Model

Simulates regional water flows, reservoir operations, and groundwater use across the Middle Rio Grande under historical and projected climate conditions.

Integration type: Data-to-Model

Middle Rio Grande Hydroeconomic Optimization Model

Optimizes reservoir operations and water allocation decisions under economic and institutional constraints.

Integration type: Data-to-Model

Automating Multivariable Workflow Composition for Model-to-Model Integration

Model-to-Model integration automatically connects two scientific models by using the outputs of one as inputs to another. This enables seamless multi-model workflows for more complete and realistic scenario analysis.

Integration type: Model-to-Model