Giving to TACC

The University of Texas at Austin is one of the nation's leading universities, an academic institution of enormous breadth and depth, with 50,000 students and 3,000 faculty. It's an economic powerhouse that pumps more than $8.2 billion into the Texas economy each year. It ranks fifth in the world for academic citations and is the recipient of more than 400 patents. Seven of its doctoral programs rank among the top 10 in the nation.

The University of Texas' intellectual firepower extends far beyond its classrooms and labs. In addition to ongoing research in 18 colleges and schools, the university sponsors 100 separate research units and 10 organized research units, such as the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).

TACC plays a pivotal role in the new culture of computational science at The University of Texas at Austin and is central to UT's success as a major public research university. TACC boasts world-class resources and expertise that enable scientists and researchers to find solutions to the biggest problems facing science and society. From climate change to medical research to energy resources, traditional and renewable, advanced computing provides the tools that are critical to discovery in science and across disciplines.

In the past five years, faculty at UT who depend on TACC resources to conduct their research have brought in more than $400 million in external research funding. In early 2008, the center deployed Ranger — the most powerful supercomputer at any university in the world. Already, researchers at UT, across the country, and around the world are using Ranger to carry out groundbreaking science on an unprecedented scale.

Discovering solutions to the most pressing issues of our time requires the most advanced technological resources. In order to remain competitive, philanthropy is key to our success.