US NSF invests $457m in a new LCCF at UT Austin, deploying the largest academic supercomputer in 2026.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing $457m in a new Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF) at the University of Texas at Austin. LCCF will be a distributed computational facility for science and engineering applications, deploying the largest academic supercomputer dedicated to open-scientific research in 2026. The Horizon supercomputer will provide a 10x improvement in simulation over the current NSF system and a 100x improvement for AI applications.

July 11, 2024
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