A recently awarded $20 million NSF Nexus Supercomputer grant to Georgia Tech and partner institutes promises to bring incredible computing power to the CODA building. But what makes this supercomputer different and how will it impact research in labs on campus, across disciplinary units, and across institutions?
Purpose Built for AI Discovery
Nexus is Georgia Tech’s next-generation supercomputer, replacing the HIVE. Most operational high-performance computing systems utilized for research were designed before the explosion in Machine Learning and AI. This revolution has already shown successes for scientific research and data analysis in many domains, but the compute power, complex connectivity, and data storage needs for these systems have limited their access to the academic research community. The Nexus supercomputer design process retained a robust HPC system as a base while integrating artificial intelligence, machine learning and large-scale data science analysis from the ground up.
Expert Support for Faculty and Researchers
The Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) and the College of Computing house the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Science and Engineering (ARTISAN) group. This team has collective experience in working with national computational, cloud, commercial and institutional resources for computational activities, and decades of experience in scientific tools that aid in assisting both teaching and research faculty. Nexus is the next logical step, bringing together everything they’ve learned to build a national resource optimized for the future of AI-driven science.
Principal Research Scientist for the ARTISAN team, Suresh Marru, highlighted the need for this new resource, “AI is a core part of the Nexus vision. Today, researchers often spend more time setting up experiments, managing data, or figuring out how to run jobs on remote clusters than doing science. With Nexus, we’re flipping that script. By embedding AI into the platform, we help automate routine tasks, suggest optimal ways to run simulations, and even assist in generating input or analyzing results. This means researchers can move faster from question to insight. Instead of wrestling with infrastructure, they can focus on discovery.”
An Accessible AI Resource for GT & US Scientific Research
90% of Nexus capacity will be made available to the national research community through the NSF Advanced Computing Systems & Services (ACSS) program. Researchers from across the country, at universities, labs, and institutions of all sizes, will have access to this next-generation AI-ready supercomputer. For Georgia Tech research faculty and staff, the new system has multiple benefits:
- 10% of the time on the machine will be available for use by Georgia Tech researchers
- Nexus will allow GT researchers a chance to try out the latest hardware for AI computing
- Thanks to cyberinfrastructure tools from the ARTISAN group, Nexus will be easier to access than previous NSF supercomputers
Interim Executive Director of IDEaS and Regents' Professor David Sherrill notes, "Nexus brings Georgia Tech's leadership in research computing to a whole new level. It will be the first NSF Category I Supercomputer hosted on Georgia Tech's campus. The Nexus hardware and software will boost research in the foundations of AI, and applications of AI in science and engineering."
Come join the Spatial Ecology and Paleontology Lab every Friday for Fossil Fridays!
Become a fossil hunter and help discover how vertebrate communities have changed through time. Experience firsthand what it is like to be a paleontologist, finding and identifying new specimens!
You will be picking and sorting 3,000 to 30,000-year-old fossil specimens from rock matrix that has been brought back from Natural Trap Cave, WY. These specimens are part of many research projects examining how the community of species living around Natural Trap Cave has changed since the extinction of the cheetahs, lions, dire wolves, mammoths, camels, horses, and other megafauna that used to live in North America.
You are welcome to participate anytime that is convenient, with no commitment necessary. In fact, you can drop in or leave anytime within the two-hour timeframe. All are welcome, so bring your friends!
If you are accompanying a minor (under 18), please be sure that a guardian/chaperone is with them at all times and that there is no less than one adult for every two minors.
For more information join the mailing list and/or contact Katie Slenker (kslenker3@gatech.edu) or Jenny McGuire (jmcguire@gatech.edu).
* No T. rex actually helped with the excavations of Natural Trap Cave as their arms would be much too small.
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Come join the Spatial Ecology and Paleontology Lab every Friday for Fossil Fridays!
Become a fossil hunter and help discover how vertebrate communities have changed through time. Experience firsthand what it is like to be a paleontologist, finding and identifying new specimens!
You will be picking and sorting 3,000 to 30,000-year-old fossil specimens from rock matrix that has been brought back from Natural Trap Cave, WY. These specimens are part of many research projects examining how the community of species living around Natural Trap Cave has changed since the extinction of the cheetahs, lions, dire wolves, mammoths, camels, horses, and other megafauna that used to live in North America.
You are welcome to participate anytime that is convenient, with no commitment necessary. In fact, you can drop in or leave anytime within the two-hour timeframe. All are welcome, so bring your friends!
If you are accompanying a minor (under 18), please be sure that a guardian/chaperone is with them at all times and that there is no less than one adult for every two minors.
For more information join the mailing list and/or contact Katie Slenker (kslenker3@gatech.edu) or Jenny McGuire (jmcguire@gatech.edu).
* No T. rex actually helped with the excavations of Natural Trap Cave as their arms would be much too small.
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Come join the Spatial Ecology and Paleontology Lab every Friday for Fossil Fridays!
Become a fossil hunter and help discover how vertebrate communities have changed through time. Experience firsthand what it is like to be a paleontologist, finding and identifying new specimens!
You will be picking and sorting 3,000 to 30,000-year-old fossil specimens from rock matrix that has been brought back from Natural Trap Cave, WY. These specimens are part of many research projects examining how the community of species living around Natural Trap Cave has changed since the extinction of the cheetahs, lions, dire wolves, mammoths, camels, horses, and other megafauna that used to live in North America.
You are welcome to participate anytime that is convenient, with no commitment necessary. In fact, you can drop in or leave anytime within the two-hour timeframe. All are welcome, so bring your friends!
If you are accompanying a minor (under 18), please be sure that a guardian/chaperone is with them at all times and that there is no less than one adult for every two minors.
For more information join the mailing list and/or contact Katie Slenker (kslenker3@gatech.edu) or Jenny McGuire (jmcguire@gatech.edu).
* No T. rex actually helped with the excavations of Natural Trap Cave as their arms would be much too small.
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Stargazers are invited to the Georgia Tech Observatory’s Public Nights for a close-up glimpse of the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and other night-sky wonders. Public Nights, which are held on select Thursday evenings, are free and open to everyone.
On the grounds between the Howey and Mason Buildings, several telescopes are typically set up for viewing, and visitors are also welcome to bring their own telescopes.
Public Nights are contingent on clear weather.
For updated schedules, potential closures, driving and parking directions, and other information, please consult the official website: astronomy.gatech.edu
Fall 2025 Semester
- September 4 - 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. - Moon, Albireo
- October 2 - 8:00 to 10:30 p.m. - Moon, Saturn
- October 30 - 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. - Moon, Saturn
- December 4 - 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. - Full Moon, Saturn
Spring 2026 Semester
- January 22 - 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. - Moon, Jupiter
- February 26 - 7 to 9 p.m. - Moon, Jupiter
- April 2 - 8 to 10 p.m. - Jupiter, Orion Nebula
- April 23 - 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. - Moon, Jupiter
Event Details
Stargazers are invited to the Georgia Tech Observatory’s Public Nights for a close-up glimpse of the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and other night-sky wonders. Public Nights, which are held on select Thursday evenings, are free and open to everyone.
On the grounds between the Howey and Mason Buildings, several telescopes are typically set up for viewing, and visitors are also welcome to bring their own telescopes.
Public Nights are contingent on clear weather.
For updated schedules, potential closures, driving and parking directions, and other information, please consult the official website: astronomy.gatech.edu
Fall 2025 Semester
- September 4 - 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. - Moon, Albireo
- October 2 - 8:00 to 10:30 p.m. - Moon, Saturn
- October 30 - 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. - Moon, Saturn
- December 4 - 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. - Full Moon, Saturn
Spring 2026 Semester
- January 22 - 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. - Moon, Jupiter
- February 26 - 7 to 9 p.m. - Moon, Jupiter
- April 2 - 8 to 10 p.m. - Jupiter, Orion Nebula
- April 23 - 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. - Moon, Jupiter
Event Details
Stargazers are invited to the Georgia Tech Observatory’s Public Nights for a close-up glimpse of the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and other night-sky wonders. Public Nights, which are held on select Thursday evenings, are free and open to everyone.
On the grounds between the Howey and Mason Buildings, several telescopes are typically set up for viewing, and visitors are also welcome to bring their own telescopes.
Public Nights are contingent on clear weather.
For updated schedules, potential closures, driving and parking directions, and other information, please consult the official website: astronomy.gatech.edu
Fall 2025 Semester
- September 4 - 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. - Moon, Albireo
- October 2 - 8:00 to 10:30 p.m. - Moon, Saturn
- October 30 - 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. - Moon, Saturn
- December 4 - 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. - Full Moon, Saturn
Spring 2026 Semester
- January 22 - 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. - Moon, Jupiter
- February 26 - 7 to 9 p.m. - Moon, Jupiter
- April 2 - 8 to 10 p.m. - Jupiter, Orion Nebula
- April 23 - 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. - Moon, Jupiter
Event Details
Stargazers are invited to the Georgia Tech Observatory’s Public Nights for a close-up glimpse of the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and other night-sky wonders. Public Nights, which are held on select Thursday evenings, are free and open to everyone.
On the grounds between the Howey and Mason Buildings, several telescopes are typically set up for viewing, and visitors are also welcome to bring their own telescopes.
Public Nights are contingent on clear weather.
For updated schedules, potential closures, driving and parking directions, and other information, please consult the official website: astronomy.gatech.edu
Fall 2025 Semester
- September 4 - 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. - Moon, Albireo
- October 2 - 8:00 to 10:30 p.m. - Moon, Saturn
- October 30 - 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. - Moon, Saturn
- December 4 - 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. - Full Moon, Saturn
Spring 2026 Semester
- January 22 - 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. - Moon, Jupiter
- February 26 - 7 to 9 p.m. - Moon, Jupiter
- April 2 - 8 to 10 p.m. - Jupiter, Orion Nebula
- April 23 - 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. - Moon, Jupiter
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Joshua Dudman
Janelia Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Faculty host: Jeff Markowitz
Join virtually here: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/92420195718
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Abstract: Symbionts can have myriad impacts on their hosts, with the net outcome (parasitism, commensalism, or mutualism) impacted by ecological context, timescale, and level of biological organization. In this talk, I will present the results of a series of studies taking advantage of a tractable and ecologically important system: the freshwater zooplankton Daphnia and their microbial symbionts. I will first present the results of a field study indicating shifts of a common microsporidian symbiont from parasitism towards mutualism. Then, I will present results of two different experiments aimed at understanding the factors driving the impacts of symbionts on host individuals and populations.
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