{"id":63160,"date":"2025-10-06T08:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/63160\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T08:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:24:22","slug":"georgia-tech-to-build-20m-national-ai-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/63160\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Tech to Build $20M National AI Supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Georgia Tech is also a host to the PACE Hive Gateway supercomputer (above). Nexus will use AI to accelerate scientific breakthroughs.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Georgia Tech and its partners $20 million to build a powerful new supercomputer that will use artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate scientific breakthroughs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\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 \u00c1ngel Cabrera, president of Georgia Tech<\/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\u00a0<\/p>\n

Designed from the ground up for AI, Nexus will give researchers across the country access to advanced computing tools through a simple, user-friendly interface. It will support work in many fields, including climate science, health, aerospace, and robotics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nexus system’s 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, National Science Foundation<\/a> director of the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure.\u202f\u201cWe look forward to adding Nexus to NSF’s portfolio of advanced computing capabilities for the research community.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nexus Supercomputer \u2014 In Simple Terms\u00a0<\/p>\n

Built for the future of science: Nexus is designed to power the most demanding AI research \u2014 from curing diseases, to understanding how the brain works, to engineering quantum materials.\u00a0Blazing fast: Nexus can crank out over 400 quadrillion operations per second \u2014 the equivalent of everyone in the world continuously performing 50 million calculations every second.\u00a0Massive brain plus memory: Nexus combines the power of AI and high-performance computing with 330 trillion bytes of memory to handle complex problems and giant datasets.\u00a0Storage: Nexus will feature 10 quadrillion bytes of flash storage, equivalent to about 10 billion reams of paper. Stacked, that\u2019s a column reaching 500,000 km high \u2014 enough to stretch from Earth to the moon and a third of the way back.\u00a0Supercharged connections: Nexus will have lightning-fast connections to move data almost instantaneously, so researchers do not waste time waiting.\u00a0Open to U.S. researchers: Scientists from any U.S. institution can apply to use Nexus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

AI is rapidly changing how science is investigated. Researchers use AI to analyze massive datasets, model complex systems, and test ideas faster than ever before. But these tools require powerful computing resources that \u2014 until now \u2014 have been inaccessible to many institutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is where Nexus comes in. It will make state-of-the-art AI infrastructure available to scientists all across the country, not just those at top tech hubs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis supercomputer will help level the playing field,\u201d said Suresh Marru, principal investigator of the Nexus project and director of Georgia Tech\u2019s new Center for AI in Science and Engineering<\/a> (ARTISAN). \u201cIt\u2019s designed to make powerful AI tools easier to use and available to more researchers in more places.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Srinivas Aluru, Regents\u2019 Professor and senior associate dean in the College of Computing<\/a>, said, \u201cWith Nexus, Georgia Tech joins the league of academic supercomputing centers. This is the culmination of years of planning, including building the state-of-the-art CODA data center and Nexus\u2019 precursor supercomputer project, HIVE.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like Nexus, HIVE was supported by NSF funding. Both Nexus and HIVE are supported by a partnership between Georgia Tech\u2019s research and information technology units.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A National Collaboration\u00a0<\/p>\n

Georgia Tech is building Nexus in partnership with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, which runs several of the country\u2019s top academic supercomputers. The two institutions will link their systems through a new high-speed network, creating a national research infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\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<\/a> and former dean of Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing. \u201cI’m proud that my two academic homes have partnered on this project that will move science, and society, forward.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Georgia Tech will begin building Nexus this year, with its expected completion in spring 2026. Once Nexus is finished, researchers can apply for access through an NSF review process. Georgia Tech will manage the system, provide support, and reserve up to 10% of its capacity for its own campus research.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\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\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georgia Tech is also a host to the PACE Hive Gateway supercomputer (above). Nexus will use AI to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[241,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-63160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}