4,000 GB200s arrive in Texas for Horizon TACC, billed as largest academic supercomputer
AlexGDimakis · x · 2026-09-02
UT Austin professor Alex Dimidis reports 4,000 NVIDIA GB200 GPUs have arrived in Texas for the Horizon TACC cluster, reportedly the largest academic supercomputer. The team plans to train open models on it. Photo courtesy of Adam Klivans, director of NSF IFML.
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