Georgia Tech is building Nexus, a $20 million supercomputer funded by NSF—here’s what makes it groundbreaking:

Georgia Tech is building Nexus, a $20 million supercomputer funded by NSF—here’s what makes it groundbreaking:

Backed by the U.S. National Science Foundation with a $20 million grant to Georgia Tech and partner institutions, Nexus is designed from the ground up for both AI and high-performance scientific computing. It's set to be one of the most advanced academic supercomputers in the nation.

The system will be capable of over 400 quadrillion operations per second (400+ petaflops)—imagine every person on Earth doing 50 million calculations at the same time. With 330 trillion bytes of memory and 10 quadrillion bytes of flash storage, it's built to handle massive datasets and complex AI models seamlessly.

Construction begins in mid‑2025, with completion expected in spring 2026, and the new system will replace Georgia Tech’s older Hive supercomputer at the CODA data center. Through a high-speed national network, Nexus will be linked to systems at the University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign’s NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) to create a shared AI research infrastructure.

Georgia Tech will reserve 10% of the computing capacity for its researchers, while the majority will be accessible to scientists across the U.S. via NSF’s resource-sharing process—making advanced AI tools more democratized than ever before.