DF Facilities and Services | UC Digital Futures

Facilities / Services

Digital Futures #1 (DF1) is a 180,000 square foot interdisciplinary research facility, located in the Cincinnati Innovation District. DF1 is strategically located so that faculty and students can work in close partnership with government, industry, and community partners on impactful R&D and UC’s 1819 Innovation Hub, also located in Cincinnati’s Innovation District, to accelerate and commercialize ideas as well as start-up and spin-off new businesses.

Location Strategy

A unique and thriving ecosystem, The Cincinnati Innovation District® is powered by the University of Cincinnati, a Carnegie Level 1 research institution, and Cincinnati Children’s hospital, a nationally ranked pediatric and research institution

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The Building

The Building: 6 Floors – 180,000 SqFt

> 2 entire floors (60k sq ft!) of workspace available for lease
by corporate partners

> 15+ Advanced-tech labs (Cybersecurity, AI, AR/VR, sensors,
robotics, UAV/CAV, Design, Hypersonics, Recording Studio,
IoT and more)

> 5+ Major core facilities/service centers
Viz lab, AR/VR, E/Circuits lab, High-bay, HPC, x-lab

> 20+ Suite, meeting, classroom & huddle spaces

> 5,500 sq.ft of event/performance space

> The Digital Futures Zone (The DFZ) expands the reach of DF research through creative, innovative techniques and digital platforms. The 2,000+ sq. ft. lobby of Digital Futures is open to all looking to learn more about the significance of our research.

Technologies / Services

> The UC Advanced Research Computing Center

> The UC Center for Simulation & Virtual Environments

> Research & Development

> Circuits & Electronics Lab

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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