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Data Bingo!

Posted on February 04, 2026

As part of UIC’s celebration of International Love Data Week, Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Research (ACER), the Data Science Hangout, and Chicago Women in High Performance Computing are hosting a beginner-friendly, hands-on…

AlphaFold 3 now available on Lakeshore

Posted on January 23, 2026

AlphaFold 3 is transforming the way researchers study biology by enabling high quality predictions of biomolecular 3D structure from sequence, dramatically accelerating the path from hypothesis to insight. By reducing the time and…

ACER Spring 2026 Webinar Schedule

Posted on January 20, 2026

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce ACER’s Spring 2026 webinar schedule. These training sessions will be held via Zoom and typically take place on Thursday afternoons. Topics range from introductory programming in…

Computational Research Symposium 2025: Save the Date & Call for Posters

Posted on March 21, 2025

UIC Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Research (ACER) and Argonne National Laboratory are happy to announce that Computational Research Symposium 2025 will take place on April 21st, as part of UIC Research Week.

New Storage Resource for Researchers Working with Sensitive Data

Posted on November 13, 2024

Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Research (ACER) is happy to announce that the Research Data Lake storage system can now store electronic personal health information (PHI) and other types of high-risk data.…

Secure data infrastructure project expands UIC research computing strengths

Rob Mitchum | Posted on September 05, 2024

Research runs on data, and data are increasingly complex. Running large-scale analyses and using new artificial intelligence tools requires advanced computational technologies and knowledge. Now, a year-long effort to securely relocate and store…

Login access to Extreme and SABER will end on Sept. 15, 2024

Posted on July 18, 2024

Dear Extreme and SABER Users, With the new Lakeshore HPC cluster up and running, the time has come to begin sunsetting the Extreme and SABER clusters after nearly ten years of service to…

Introduction to Computing on the Lakeshore HPC Cluster

Posted on July 15, 2024

Dear Chicago Computes and Lakeshore Condo users, We are excited to offer a specialized workshop to all the users of our new Lakeshore HPC cluster system. This hands-on workshop will introduce you to…

UIC Computational Research Symposium 2024

Ana Marija Sokovic | Posted on May 10, 2024

The 2024 Computational Research Symposium at UIC Student Center East, sponsored by the UIC Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Research (ACER), the Office of Vice Chancellor of Research (OVCR), and the UIC Library,…