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New! NDIF announces the NDIF Engineering Fellowship for Summer 2024. Apply by
May 26.


NATIONAL DEEP
INFERENCE FABRIC

The National Deep Inference Fabric is a research computing project that will
enable us to crack open the mysteries inside large-scale Artificial Intelligence
systems.

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OUR MISSION

Powerful large-scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems such as Large Language
Models (LLMs) herald a new era of AI that is poised to reshape society, but
scientists cannot explain their predictions. The National Deep Inference Fabric
(NDIF) is a research computing project that will enable researchers and students
to crack open the mysteries inside these enormous neural networks.

Because large-scale AI systems are trained automatically using massive amounts
of data—instead of being designed line-by-line by a programmer—the internal
workings of the current generation of AI are inscrutable to humans.
Understanding how these systems work is an emerging science. But performing
science on the internals of such large-scale AI systems requires substantial
computational resources that are not practical at institutional scale, because
the infrastructure required to study the detailed computations of AI differs
from the computing systems used for ordinary commercial deployment of AI.

NDIF addresses this critical need by creating a unique nationwide research
computing fabric that enables scientists to perform transparent and reproducible
experiments on the largest-scale open AI systems. NDIF will advance our nation’s
understanding of the capabilities of large-scale AI systems, as well as their
limitations, robustness, safety issues, and impacts on human society.

WHAT IS A DEEP INFERENCE FABRIC?

A deep inference fabric is a high-performance computing fabric designed to
support scientific experiments on running AI systems. The National Deep
Inference Fabric consists of a unique combination of hardware and software that
will provide a remotely-accessible computing resource for scientists and
students to perform detailed and reproducible experiments on large pretrained AI
models such as open large language models.

To learn how to use NDIF, get started here.

NDIF IS SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. ANY OPINIONS,
FINDINGS, AND CONCLUSIONS OR RECOMMENDATIONS EXPRESSED IN THIS MATERIAL ARE
THOSE OF THE LEADERSHIP OF NDIF AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION.

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