# NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant

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We were awarded $25,000 in GPUs through NVIDIA’s Academic Hardware Grant. I used them to build and run an isolated, encrypted mini-cluster for the NHGRI archive. Our lab named clusters after their owners’ hometowns, so I called mine Seoul.

## August 2021 · Work · Research

- [Work · Research](/work/research)
- [Résumé / CV · PDF](/documents/spencer-hong-cv.pdf)
- [Related research · Nature Communications](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71700-9)

## Images

- [Seoul, the mini-cluster I built for the NHGRI archive.](/images/moments/seoul-workstation.webp)
- [Logging in to Seoul.](/images/moments/seoul-login.webp)

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