Morehouse College receives $5M grant from NSF to house supercomputer and build data center

The grant is part of a larger $457 million research project. The supercomputer is dubbed Horizon. The facility will form part of the NSF's Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF). Morehouse will serve as a national epicenter for programmatic support, leading free initiatives such as enrichment and AI programs, and faculty accelerators in Punta Cana and the Dominican Republic. Quote: "The grant will support the college’s participation in a $457m research project, led by the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, to build one of the most powerful academic supercomputers in the southeast of the US." Quote: "The first round of funding will support the construction of a data center at the Morehouse Center for Broadening Participation in Computing, where the supercomputer, dubbed Horizon, will be housed." Quote: "The facility will form part of the NSF's Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF)." Quote: "as a primary partner in the project, it will house the system and serve as a national epicenter for programmatic support, leading free initiatives such as enrichment and AI programs, and faculty accelerators in Punta Cana and the Dominican Republic, focused on research, teaching, and grant proposal writing."