The Keeneland Project is a five-year Track 2D cooperative agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2009 for the deployment of an innovative high performance computing system in order to bring emerging architectures to the open science community. The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and its partners - Oak Ridge National Lab, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and the National Institute for Computational Sciences - manage the facility, perform education and outreach activities for advanced architectures, develop and deploy software tools for this class of architecture to ensure productivity, and team with early adopters to map their applications to Keeneland architectures.

In 2010, the Keeneland project procured and deployed its initial delivery system (KIDS): a 201 Teraflop, 120-node HP SL390 system with 240 Intel Xeon CPUs and 360 NVIDIA Fermi graphics processors, with the nodes connected by an InfiniBand QDR network. KIDS is being used to develop programming tools and libraries in order to ensure that the project can productively accelerate important scientific and engineering applications. The system is also available to a select group of users to port and tune their codes to a scalable GPU-accelerated system.

In 2012, the Keeneland project will procure and deploy its full scale system.