Hi Unity Users! This week’s digest brings a mix of reminders, new features, and learning opportunities.
⚠️ Reminder for PIs: Review your group membership
New semester, new beginnings! Take a moment to review your group membership and tidy things up by removing any students who may have moved on from your PI group.
✨ NEW on the Unity Portal: Cluster Status Page
If you haven’t noticed already, the Unity portal now includes a Status page, which provides a real-time overview of the health and availability of different systems and services on Unity (public services like login nodes and OnDemand, file systems, and infrastructure). Check it out now!
📩 The University of Rhode Island’s AI Lab: Fall 2025 Workshops
The University of Rhode Island’s Artificial Intelligence (URI AI) Lab invites the Unity community to attend their Fall 2025 workshops. The URI AI Lab is dedicated to interdisciplinary research and learning in the context of use-inspired AI. The Lab runs workshops on common AI tools and offers consultancy for research and educational projects. Visit our News page to see the full schedule and click the Zoom links to register in advance.
🗓️ Introduction to Bioinformatics on Unity: URI AI Lab Workshop Series
As part of the URI AI Lab’s Fall 2025 Workshops, Unity facilitator Cecile Cres will host an Introduction to Bioinformatics on Unity Workshop series from Sep 22 through Nov 10, 2025, at 12:30 - 1:30 PM. See details and register in advance on the Event page.
🚀 Don’t miss the NEW Workshop presented by the URI AI Lab: MPI in Rust
Rust has earned a reputation for high performance, productivity, and correctness, making it one of the most loved programming languages. In this interactive session hosted by URI’s Associate Professor Noah Daniels, you’ll get:
- A brief introduction to Rust basics
- Parallel computing with the Rayon library
- Multi-node distributed computing via an OpenMPI-compatible library
All code written in the workshop will be shared afterward. Read the abstract and register in advance on the Event page.
UPDATE: The date of this workshop has been rescheduled from September 16th to September 30th! Also note that this event is hybrid, hosted on Zoom or in-person at Tyler Hall 108, URI Kingston campus.
📌 Reminders:
- 🎂 Unity 5-Year Anniversary Series – Share your work: Fill out the form
- 🎨 Unity Logo Contest – Submit your design by Sept. 28: Submission form
- 🤖 Try a Unity Prototype Bot: Fill out the interest form