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iVMCL was founded in August 2016, when Dr. Tianfu Wu joined NC State. The lab is affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Visual Narrative Initiative, which brings together faculty and students from ECE, computer science, history, and art and design.

Computing

Besides regular workstations, the lab runs the following GPU servers.

System	GPUs per unit	Units	Supported by
Dell DSS 8440 GPU server	10 × NVIDIA A100 (80 GB)	2	DoD DURIP
NVIDIA DGX-1	8 × NVIDIA Tesla V100 (32 GB)	2	DoD DURIP
NVIDIA DGX Station	4 × NVIDIA Tesla V100 (32 GB)	1
Lambda Blade server	4 × NVIDIA Titan RTX	1
Dell server	6 × NVIDIA Tesla T4	1
Microway WhisperStation	4 × NVIDIA GTX Titan X	1

Dell DSS 8440 rack-mounted GPU server — Dell DSS 8440: 10 × A100 (80 GB) per server

NVIDIA DGX-1 rack-mounted server — NVIDIA DGX-1: 8 × V100 (32 GB) per server

NVIDIA DGX Station desk-side workstation — NVIDIA DGX Station: 4 × V100 (32 GB)

Robotics and mobile platforms

Rethink Robotics Sawyer: a collaborative robot arm with 7 degrees of freedom and inherent safety compliance, used in research and teaching.
Mobile GPU workstation: MSI GT73VR with 2 × NVIDIA GTX 1070 (SLI), for demos and field data collection.

Rethink Robotics Sawyer robot arm with a screen face — Rethink Robotics Sawyer

On campus

The lab is in 2056 Koch Hall on NC State’s Centennial Campus (map and directions), close to the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, a LEED Silver building with almost 100 group study rooms, technology-equipped spaces for research and collaboration, and a 3D printing and laser cutting facility for fast prototyping.