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Rowan University<\/a> is expanding its long-running partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise<\/a> and SHI International Corp.<\/a> The collaboration aims to build a more powerful high-performance computing and AI-enabled research environment designed to accelerate discovery and strengthen student workforce readiness.\n<\/p>\n The initiative includes expanded technical and deployment support from Somerset-based SHI<\/a> to help modernize Rowan\u2019s data center environment. It features a new colocation facility, upgraded storage and compute systems, and enhanced campus networking.\n<\/p>\n The facets are designed to improve resilience, scalability, and access to AI-driven research tools across the university.<\/p>\n \u201cRowan University<\/a> is deeply grateful to HPE and SHI for this extraordinary partnership. This initiative will accelerate innovation across disciplines and expand hands-on learning opportunities that help prepare our students to lead in an AI-driven world,\u201d said Rowan University President Ali Houshmand.\n<\/p>\n The initiative upgrades research and teaching infrastructure with expanded supercomputing<\/a> capacity, AI tools and improved campus networking. It is designed to help faculty process large datasets, run advanced simulations, and accelerate modeling and analytics work across engineering, biomedical sciences, healthcare and advanced manufacturing.\n<\/p>\n Accelerating the move from ideas to results<\/p>\n Students will also gain hands-on experience. Learning will use enterprise-grade computing systems and AI platforms that mirror real-world industry environments. The interaction seeks to strengthen workforce readiness and applied research skills.<\/p>\n \u201cThis deployment helps Rowan move faster from ideas to results, giving researchers and students the dependable performance they need for data-intensive work. By bringing together the right mix of infrastructure capabilities, Rowan can support more teams, more projects, and more experiential learning at scale,\u201d said Patrick Osborne, senior vice president of technology acceleration for hybrid cloud at HPE.\n<\/p>\n Plan for growth<\/p>\n Find out here<\/a> how Rowan University\u2019s $690 million vision for an integrated \u201cwellness village\u201d and manufacturing hub could reshape South Jersey.\n<\/p>\n Denise Collison is senior vice president of public sector at SHI. She said, \u201cWe have built an environment that works as one system, not a collection of separate upgrades. Rowan\u2019s researchers and students now have a technology foundation that supports current and future needs.\u201d\n<\/p>\n The partnership underscores a broader push to embed AI-ready infrastructure into higher education<\/a>. It positions Rowan to scale research capacity while also giving students direct exposure to the tools shaping modern industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Rowan University is expanding its long-running partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and SHI International…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,2765,25,39,33171,517,28687,33172,33173,2435],"class_list":["post-57032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-ai-research","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-data-centers","tag-hewlett-packard-enterprise","tag-higher-education","tag-rowan-university","tag-shi-international","tag-supercomputing","tag-workforce-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Rowan](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Rowan-University-Ali-Houshmand-120x150.jpg\"\/)
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