{"id":53981,"date":"2026-07-24T15:10:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/?p=53981"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:10:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:10:02","slug":"dell-technologies-selected-to-build-secure-ai-platform-for-texas-am-engineering-experiment-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/2026\/07\/24\/dell-technologies-selected-to-build-secure-ai-platform-for-texas-am-engineering-experiment-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell Technologies selected to build secure AI platform for Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station has selected Dell Technologies to build the IGNITE AI and high-performance computing platform, supporting secure, large-scale research across government, industry and academia.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) has selected Dell Technologies to design and build the Innovative Growth in Next Generation AI Technology Ecosystem (IGNITE), a new AI and high-performance computing (HPC) platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funded by the State of Texas, IGNITE will support large-scale, AI-driven research across engineering, national security, scientific discovery and other research disciplines using shared infrastructure built to handle workloads with varying security requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IGNITE is designed to scale alongside growing research demands and is expected to be among the largest AI deployments in higher education powered by AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs, supporting the next generation of HPC- and AI-driven research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As federal research programmes face greater complexity and security requirements, the infrastructure to support them has become as strategic as the research itself. TEES is the official research agency for Texas A&M Engineering and is pivotal in advancing interdisciplinary research across The Texas A&M University System. As part of a land-, sea- and space-grant R1 university, TEES leads federally sponsored programmes spanning energy, healthcare, AI and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IGNITE will expand TEES’ capacity to take on increasingly complex research programmes. This includes several priority research areas that require large-scale scientific computation, such as mission-critical AI model and LLM development, materials discovery, advanced manufacturing, robotics and defense- and aerospace-related research, where requirements for data governance and security vary by programme and sponsor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dell AI Services experts worked with TEES throughout the planning and design process to align the architecture to both research priorities and security requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IGNITE introduces a shared infrastructure model governed by policy-based, zero trust security controls. Researchers, students and external collaborators can access shared compute resources across projects with varying security requirements, without the cost and complexity of separate, siloed environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IGNITE will feature Dell PowerRack systems with liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge XE9785L servers and AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs to accelerate AI training, inference, HPC and other data-intensive workloads across research programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data foundation is anchored by Dell AI Data Platform storage (Dell PowerScale) and will deliver high-performance data access and management for large-scale research environments, while Dell Managed Services will support ongoing operations as research demands grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dell will deploy the integrated systems at an Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Dallas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IGNITE builds on a long-standing relationship between Dell and the Texas A&M University System. Dell solutions already power Texas A&M HPC ecosystems, including systems such as FASTER, Grace, ACES and Launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collaboration also extends into incubation environments, where researchers and students develop practical AI skills, and into the classroom, where Dell tools and AI-powered solutions are preparing the next generation of engineers, scientists and business leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As a research organization with more than a century of experience supporting federal agencies, industry and academia, we are constantly evolving to meet the needs of the programs we serve,” said Dr. Robert H. Bishop, Vice Chancellor & Dean, Texas A&M Engineering. “This platform we\u2019re building with Dell Technologies expands what we can take on – supporting increasingly complex, secure research for years to come. It aligns technology investment to long-term institutional priorities while positioning TEES to support the research programs that matter most to the nation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The future of research depends on providing researchers and students with access to the right technologies, the right expertise and the freedom to innovate. IGNITE advances The Texas A&M University System\u2019s commitment to expanding access to next-generation computing environments that support AI-driven research, high-performance workloads and emerging technologies,” said Dr. Vince Kellen, CIO, The Texas A&M University System. “Through collaboration with industry leaders such as Dell Technologies, AMD and Equinix, we are building a flexible and scalable platform that accelerates discovery, strengthens workforce development and creates new opportunities for partnership across academia, government and industry.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Universities like Texas A&M are at the center of research that shapes national security, economic growth and scientific discovery,” said Fran Bogle, Senior Vice President, Higher Education & Healthcare, Dell Technologies. “IGNITE gives TEES the AI and compute foundation to compete for the next generation of federal and state research programs – with security controls that keep sensitive data protected without limiting access for the researchers and collaborators who need it. That’s the kind of partnership, from architecture and design to managed services, that defines how Dell works with leading research universities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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