Dr. Dan Stanzione: Building Supercomputers, Artificial Intelligence, LLMs & Politics of Research

In this episode, I had the absolute honor of speaking with Dr. Dan Stanzione. Dr. Stanzione is the director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and the Vice President for Research at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Stanzione has served as the Primary Investigator (PI) for the development of countless multimillion-dollar supercomputer facilities/systems, such as Frontera, Lonestar 6, and most recently, Horizon & the LCCF. Dr. Stanzione and the supercomputer he helps build directly influence research across not only the University of Texas, but the whole of Academia. This podcast has no affiliation with the University of Texas or the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. However, it is part of my goal to make quality educational content with real experts accessible to the public for no charge whatsoever. Sources & Further Reading: Stanzione, D., West, J., Evans, R. T., Minyard, T., Ghattas, O., & Panda, D. K. (2020). Frontera: The Evolution of Leadership Computing at the National Science Foundation. Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing. https://doi.org/10.1145/3311790.3396656 Guest Lecture at Rice University Recent Guest Lecture Krizhevsky, Alex, et al. “ImageNet classification with deep convolutional Neural Networks.” Communications of the ACM, vol. 60, no. 6, 24 May 2017, pp. 84–90, https://doi.org/10.1145/3065386. Timeline of AI Yifan Yao, Jinhao Duan, Kaidi Xu, Yuanfang Cai, Zhibo Sun, Yue Zhang,A survey on large language model (LLM) security and privacy: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, High-Confidence Computing, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2024, 100211, ISSN 2667-2952, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hcc.2024.100211. Dr. Dan Stanzione Website Google Scholar https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-stanzione-88ba41/ Jason Bott & Podcast Socials: Google Scholar Twitter https://www.instagram.com/heightsofhumanitypodcast/https://www.tiktok.com/@heightsofhumanity https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-bott-a52944270/ RSS: https://rss.com/podcasts/heightsofhumanity/ Website: https://www.heightsofhumanitypodcast.com