# Horizon **Domain:** Austin Research / Infrastructure **Doc Type:** Research entity **Source basis:** Supplied research cluster with linked references; see the [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|evidence map]] for verification scope. **Horizon** is [[wiki/Texas Advanced Computing Center|TACC]]’s leadership-class computing system, linking scientific simulation with large AI workloads. The 2026 system documentation describes large CPU and accelerator resources and extensive solid-state storage; the rollout account distinguishes the GPU component entering operation from the completed system design. Performance figures must retain their precision: BF16/FP16 and FP4 AI rates are different quantities from scientific double-precision performance. Installed components, design targets, and benchmark results should likewise remain separate. In the Austin interpretation, this capacity supports repeated inverse solutions, ensembles, [[wiki/Scientific Machine Learning|scientific machine learning]], and persistent model updates. Its importance to succession is material: energy, cooling, storage, networking, and usable computation sustain the active interpreter. ## Connected entries [[wiki/Texas Advanced Computing Center|Texas Advanced Computing Center]] · [[wiki/Oden Institute|Oden Institute]] · [[wiki/Computational Metabolism|Computational Metabolism]] · [[wiki/Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive|Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive]] · [[wiki/Digital Twin|Digital Twin]] · [[wiki/Center for Generative AI|Center for Generative AI]] · [[wiki/Omar Ghattas|Omar Ghattas]] ## Sources and corpus context - [[research/The Austin Executable Loop|The Austin Executable Loop — master document]] - [[research/Oden Institute - The Austin Succession Stack|Oden Institute - The Austin Succession Stack]] - [[research/UT Austin - The University Affiliated Research Center and ACES|UT Austin - The University Affiliated Research Center and ACES]] - [Horizon System Documentation — Texas Advanced Computing Center](https://docs.tacc.utexas.edu/hpc/horizon/system/) - [Opening the Future of Science — Horizon at TACC](https://tacc.utexas.edu/news/latest-news/2026/07/07/opening-the-future-of-science/) **Cluster:** [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|Austin Research Evidence Map]]