{"id":78040,"date":"2025-07-20T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78040\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T13:05:10","slug":"nsf-gives-georgia-tech-20-million-to-build-ai-focused-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78040\/","title":{"rendered":"NSF Gives Georgia Tech $20 Million To Build AI-Focused Supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753016710_160_960x0.jpg\" alt=\"Georgia Tech\" data-height=\"1490\" data-width=\"2081\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"color-body light-text\" role=\"button\">The Georgia Institute of Technology is building a new supercomputer that will advance the nation&#8217;s &#8230; More capacity to use artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>getty<\/p>\n<p>The National Science Foundation has awarded the Georgia Institute of Technology $20 million to lead the construction of a new supercomputer \u2014 named Nexus \u2014 that will use artificial intelligence to advance scientific breakthroughs.<\/p>\n<p>According to the<a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2505662&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2505662&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\" aria-label=\"NSF announcement of the award\"> NSF announcement of the award<\/a>, Nexus will provide \u201ca critical national resource to the science and engineering research community.\u201d It will function \u201cboth as a standalone platform and as a gateway to effectively utilizing other national resources, significantly accelerating AI-driven scientific discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nexus is expected to advance American leadership in artificial intelligence, growing the nation\u2019s capacity in \u201cdiverse areas of science and engineering, enabling breakthrough discoveries, increasing economic competitiveness, and advancing human health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorgia Tech is proud to be one of the nation\u2019s leading sources of the AI talent and technologies that are powering a revolution in our economy,\u201d said Georgia Tech President \u00c1ngel Cabrera, in the<a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/07\/15\/georgia-tech-build-20m-national-ai-supercomputer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/07\/15\/georgia-tech-build-20m-national-ai-supercomputer\" aria-label=\"university\u2019s announcement.\"> university\u2019s announcement.<\/a> \u201cIt\u2019s fitting we\u2019ve been selected to host this new supercomputer, which will support a new wave of AI-centered innovation across the nation. We\u2019re grateful to the NSF, and we are excited to get to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nexus will have enormous computing capacity. According to Georgia Tech, it will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>be able to perform \u201c400 quadrillion operations per second \u2014 the equivalent of everyone in the world continuously performing 50 million calculations every second.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>have 330 trillion bytes of memory, enabling it to solve complex problems and process giant datasets.<\/li>\n<li>contain 10 quadrillion bytes of flash storage, equal to a column of paper \u201creaching<strong> <\/strong>500,000 km high \u2014 enough to stretch from Earth to the moon and a third of the way back.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe Nexus system\u2019s novel approach combining support for persistent scientific services with more traditional high-performance computing will enable new science and AI workflows that will accelerate the time to scientific discovery,\u201d\u202fsaid Katie Antypas, NSF\u2019s director of the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure.\u202f\u201cWe look forward to adding Nexus to NSF&#8217;s portfolio of advanced computing capabilities for the research community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Tech will construct Nexus in partnership with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, home to several of the country\u2019s top academic supercomputers.<\/p>\n<p>The two universities will establish a new high-speed network, creating a national research infrastructure available for use by U.S. researchers, who will be able to apply for NSF support to access the supercomputer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNexus is more than a supercomputer \u2014 it\u2019s a symbol of what\u2019s possible when leading institutions work together to advance science,\u201d said Charles Isbell, chancellor of the University of Illinois and former dean of Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing. \u201cI\u2019m proud that my two academic homes have partnered on this project that will move science, and society, forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plans call for construction to begin this year, with completion expected by spring 2026. Georgia Tech will manage Nexus, provide support, and reserve up to 10% of its capacity for its own campus research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a big step for Georgia Tech and for the scientific community,\u201d said Vivek Sarkar, the John P. Imlay Dean of Computing. \u201cNexus will help researchers make faster progress on today\u2019s toughest problems \u2014 and open the door to discoveries we haven\u2019t even imagined yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Georgia Institute of Technology is building a new supercomputer that will advance the nation&#8217;s &#8230; More capacity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,53935,53936,814,53937,158,67,132,53934,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-78040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-georgia-institute-of-technology","11":"tag-national-science-foundation","12":"tag-scientific-research","13":"tag-supercomputer","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-university-of-illinois","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114885710463491094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}