Georgia Tech to Build $20M NSF-Funded National AI Supercomputer “Nexus”
The National Science Foundation has awarded $20 million to Georgia Tech and partners to build Nexus, a cutting-edge AI-driven supercomputer designed to accelerate scientific discovery across the U.S. The system will support groundbreaking work in fields such as medicine, climate, aerospace, and robotics.
Scheduled for completion in spring 2026, Nexus will perform over 400 quadrillion operations per second and feature 330 trillion bytes of memory and 10 quadrillion bytes of storage — all accessible to U.S. researchers through a streamlined NSF application process.
Nexus is being developed with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications, forming a national research infrastructure with high-speed connectivity between the two campuses.
Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera said, “This system will drive a new wave of AI-centered innovation nationwide.” Principal investigator Suresh Marru added that Nexus will "level the playing field", giving more institutions access to powerful AI tools.
“This is more than a supercomputer,” said Chancellor Charles Isbell of UIUC, “it’s a symbol of what’s possible when leading institutions collaborate to advance science.”