NSF commissions supercomputer to visualize ever-larger data sets

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $7 million, three-tier grant to the Texas Advanced Computing Center, at The University of Texas at Austin, to run a supercomputer system that will carry out large-scale scientific visualization and data analysis for U.S. researchers and educators. When operational, the new system, nicknamed Longhorn, will be capable of 20.7 trillion floating-point operations per second (TFlops), with additional computational muscle to be provided by a set of graphics processing units.

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