Creative AI Sandbox
A New Era of Innovation
The Creative AI Sandbox is an experimental environment designed to foster innovation, critical engagement, and interdisciplinary collaboration with artificial intelligence. Equipped with high-performance computing resources, cutting-edge AI models, and flexible collaborative workspaces, the Sandbox provides a safe and supportive setting for exploring the creative potential of AI.
What You Can Do in the Sandbox
Explore text, image, video, and audio synthesis.
Access state-of-the-art platforms like InvokeAI, ComfyUI, and OpenWebUI in a non-commercial academic setting.
Develop workflows, pipelines, and creative applications.
Work with peers from design, media, computing, and the arts on experimental projects.
Infrastructure and tools
The Sandbox combines enterprise-grade servers with specialized workstations to support a wide range of AI projects.
AI Server (hal-9000)
- 2× Intel Xeon Silver CPUs, 128GB DDR5 RAM
- 2× NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada GPUs (48GB VRAM each)
- 6TB RAID storage for large-scale model hosting
- Pre-installed frameworks for local LLMs, InvokeAI, and Ollama APIs
Workstations (alien1–5)
- NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs, Intel Ultra 9 CPUs, 64GB RAM
- Specialized setups for image generation, video workflows, LLM testing, audio synthesis, and open experimentation
Use Cases
Generative media
High-quality image & video generation with InvokeAI and ComfyUI.
LLM development
Private, self-hosted large language models via OpenWebUI, Oobabooga, and Ollama.
Audio and music AI
Text-to-audio workflows with ACE-Step for music and soundscape creation.
Getting Started & Best Practises
The Sandbox is a shared academic resource.
- All work must comply with TMU academic integrity policies and the Creative AI Hub’s Terms of Use.
- Users must avoid uploading personal or confidential data, and all projects are encouraged to contribute to the Creative AI Hub showcase.
- If you have a project and would like to apply, please fill out the application form.