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This April, we're bringing together researchers, educators, and infrastructure builders for two days of honest conversation about AI on research computing infrastructure. We're thrilled to kick things off with a keynote from one of HPC's leading voices.

This month we're highlighting an exciting keynote announcement for our upcoming User Meeting, reproducibility work at FAST 2026, a new webinar recording, and several platform updates including improvements to Trovi, cc-snapshot, CHI@Edge, and python-chi.

Teaching cloud computing without tying students to a single vendor is harder than it sounds. Dr. Michael MacLeod at Austin Community College found a solution in Chameleon, and the results speak for themselves: 14 courses, 420 students, and a curriculum that's still growing. Read more in the blog.

Since KVM@TACC now requires bounded reservations, VM instances and their data are deleted when reservations end. While snapshots can preserve entire instances, persistent volumes offer a more flexible solution for storing experiment scripts and data that persists independently of your VM lifecycle. This guide walks through creating volumes via the GUI, partitioning and mounting storage, and extending volumes as your storage needs grow.