The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) launched the installation of Horizon, the nation’s largest academic supercomputer, at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. Horizon is the centerpiece of NSF’s new Leadership-Class Computing Facility (NSF LCCF), a national resource on a par with iconic scientific initiatives such as the James Webb Space Telescope and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
When it enters production in Spring 2026, Horizon will provide U.S. researchers with unprecedented computing and artificial intelligence capabilities, enabling breakthroughs across physics, climate science, medicine, energy, and beyond.
Developed in collaboration with Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, VAST Data, Spectra Logic, Versity, and Sabey Data Centers, the Horizon supercomputer combines cutting-edge technologies with advanced infrastructure to redefine what is possible in scientific computing.
Horizon is a National Science Foundation-funded system that is part of the the Leadership Class Computing Facility award (Award #2323116).
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Performance Analysis of Scientific Applications on an NVIDIA Grace System, Amit Ruhela, John Cazes, John McCalpin, Carlos del-Castillo-Negrete, Junjie Li, Hang Liu, Hanning Chen, Chun-Yaung Lu, Kent Milfeld, Wenyang Zhang, Ian Wang, Lars Koesterke, John DeSantis, Nic Lewis, Sean Hempel, Dan Stanzione, Published in: SC24-W: Workshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/SCW63240.2024.00078
