UC Digital Futures - Solving Problems that Matter

We are a community of UC experts who partner with government, industry, and the community to deliver reliable, lasting tech solutions to the real problems impacting people’s lives.

Mission

Inclusive, integrated research partnerships co-creating impactful new knowledge and applied solutions to real-world problems.

Vision

Harness creativity, technology, science, and the imagination for measurable change and social impact at scale.

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Impact

We don’t do research for research’s sake – we’re solving problems that matter.

Goals

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Digital Futures Labs are what we consider to be pilot ventures or ‘research adventures. A DF Lab is a DF Lab because the idea behind it is exciting, cool, and really interesting. While the undertaking of a DF Lab involves a certain amount of uncertainty, we define DF Labs as high-risk, high-reward investments which require at least 3-5 years to determine success. A DF Lab may or may not have external funding. The Office of Research seeds, supports, and incubates the DF Lab program* to advance it to the center level..

To become a Digital Futures Center, a Digital Futures Lab or ‘DF-ready team’ receives external, center-level funding* from an external funder/partner and is designated a center by said partner. A DF Center remains a center as long as the funder reviews it positively, continues funding, and renews the center designation. If a DF Center loses funding and its center designation, it likewise ceases to be a DF Center. The Office of Research invests in DF Centers so to help them achieve next level, transformational success.
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Digital Futures Institutes are enterprise-level, interdisciplinary efforts that are funded through major endowments, institute-level federal and private funding, and/or through the university itself. Digital Futures institutes represent emergent research thrust areas in which UC has research strength and is nationally and internationally competitive.

Digital Futures High Performance Computing Center

The Digital Futures (DF) High Performance Computing (HPC) center provides the tools, talent and training necessary to accelerate computational and data-enabled research and knowledge creation.

UC’s HPC and HPDA (High Performance Data Analytics) supercomputer, popular open-source data analysis software packages, high-speed data transfer tools and integrated high-speed storage environment are available to project teams and collaborators. These tools, and others, can be used for proof-of-concept projects, testbeds for new ideas, code benchmarking, interactive analysis and data sharing/reproducibility.

Talented research computing professionals are available to help you scale your workflows from workstation to HPC, optimize your code and take advantage of the massive processing power available in the GPUs for your modeling and simulation, ML and AI projects.

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