The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has begun construction on the Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF), a cutting-edge facility led by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) that will revolutionize computational research and development. LCCF is expected to begin operations during 2026 and will deploy the largest academic supercomputer dedicated to open-scientific research in the NSF portfolio.
LCCF is envisioned as a distributed computational facility to enable transformative discoveries for broad classes of curiosity-driven and use-inspired science and engineering applications. The project also includes a wide range of education and public outreach plans to grow the future science and engineering workforce and ensure that the nation benefits from access to the facility.
Dan Stanzione, executive director at TACC is the principal investigator (PI) for the new facility. Co-PI is Omar Ghattas, core faculty at the Oden Intitute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at UT.
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