Introducing Frontera (VIDEO)

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

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The National Science Foundation has awarded $60 million to the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin for the acquisition and deployment of a new supercomputer that will be the fastest at any US university and among the most powerful in the world.

The new system, known as Frontera (Spanish for "frontier"), will begin operations in 2019. It will allow the nation's academic researchers to make important discoveries in all fields of science, from astrophysics to zoology, and further establishes The University of Texas at Austin's leadership in advanced computing.

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Sean Cunningham, TACC

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