Georgia Tech received a $12 million award from the National Science Foundation to lead a program to develop a high-performance computing system, college officials announced Wednesday.

The five-year award calls for Georgia Tech's College of Computing to oversee a project to design a system that would support scientists and engineers as they work toward scientific discovery. The goal is to create cutting-edge systems that could be used to tackle research projects in areas such as combustion, computational biology and materials science.

Other groups working on the project include the University of Tennessee, the National Institute for Computational Sciences and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Healthcare at College Park, a nursing home in Fulton County, GA, stands shuttered with its door chained on July 26, 2025, having closed in recent months.  Researchers at Brown University developed a list of U.S. nursing homes they predicted were at risk of closing based on 2023 data, and would be at elevated risk of closing due to the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act's cuts to Medicaid. Healthcare at College Park was on their list.  It survived past its last federal inspection in August of 2024 but has now closed down. The bill's biggest provisions will roll out over years starting Jan. 1. (Ariel Hart/AJC)

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