Internet2 is broadening its support for the National Research Platform (NRP) by adding new AI computing capacity, delivered through its ongoing strategic relationship with Cisco. The effort places new AI PODs at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Sacramento State, bringing the shared infrastructure closer to researchers and educators who rely on the platform.
These additions are designed to expand the NRP's available resources, giving more institutions access to AI workloads without each needing to build and maintain their own large-scale systems. The announcement highlights a continued push to make advanced computing more accessible across the research and education community.
By leveraging Cisco's technology and Internet2's national network, the new PODs aim to strengthen the NRP's role as a distributed resource for collaborative research. The specific technical specifications or performance targets of the new systems were not detailed in the announcement.