{"id":190220,"date":"2026-02-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/ut-san-antonios-launches-first-open-access-computing-hub\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:30:13","slug":"ut-san-antonios-launches-first-open-access-computing-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/ut-san-antonios-launches-first-open-access-computing-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"UT San Antonio&#8217;s launches first open-access computing hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/ut-san-antonio-first-open-access-computing-hub-ai-utsa\/\">UT San Antonio&#8217;s launches first open-access computing hub<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/ut-san-antonio-first-open-access-computing-hub-ai-utsa\/\">https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/ut-san-antonio-first-open-access-computing-hub-ai-utsa\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-24 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"sanantonioreport.org\">sanantonioreport.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University of Texas at San Antonio launched the THOR initiative, aiming to provide public access to a neuromorphic computing system with lower energy use than traditional data centers.<\/li>\n<li>The system is designed to expand research opportunities in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and physics among researchers and students.<\/li>\n<li>Funded by a $4 million National Science Foundation grant, the initiative was developed through the university\u2019s MATRIX AI Consortium for Human Well-Being.<\/li>\n<li>The project took three years to conceptualize and aims to build a neuromorphic hub for education, research, and innovation.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike traditional data centers, neuromorphic computing mimics the human brain and uses significantly less energy by activating only when processing new information.<\/li>\n<li>Historically, neuromorphic technology has been niche, but the initiative seeks to make it more widely accessible and to foster diverse research.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative is spearheaded by Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Catherine Schuman, Gert Cauwenberghs, and Vijay Janapa Reddi.<\/li>\n<li>The launch event aimed to bring together institutions and community partners to learn more about the system&#8217;s capabilities and potential uses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UT San Antonio&#8217;s launches first open-access computing hub https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/ut-san-antonio-first-open-access-computing-hub-ai-utsa\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-24 11:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sanantonioreport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-3.jpeg?fit=1620%2C1080&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-190220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190222,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190220\/revisions\/190222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}