The grant will be used to create and build a high-performance computer cluster for Numerical Modeling and Simulation.

A researcher named Alex Krizhevsky showed that you don't need a massive computer cluster to benefit from deep learning.

Several tools exist to perform such analyses but most require a computer cluster or large amounts of RAM to be executed.

Elena Norvillo sat at one of several computers clustered in what was once the Mena family parlor.

In other cases, researchers organizations are building their own computer clusters capable of storing and analyzing this data.

Solr has been around since 2004, but underwent a major update last year that added features for using the tool across large computer clusters.