Feature Stories

• Identifying Opportunities [ PDF version]
  Rob Farber pulls peak performance from Ranger for facial recognition
  
• Recipes for Replication [ PDF version]
  Novel supercomputing methods on Ranger help researcher understand DNA
  
• Extracting Insights [ PDF version]
  TACC visualization specialist, Chris Burns, creates a powerful volume-rendering tool for multi-disciplinary research
  
• Burning Questions [ PDF version]
  Dr. Venkat Raman rethinks the physics of fire
  
• TACC supercomputer performs laser cancer surgery on canine [ PDF version]
  Remarkable collaboration with M.D. Anderson Cancer Center enables Lonestar to carry out real-time, data-driven treatment
  
• The Big Give [ PDF version]
  NSF’s Resource Allocation Committee allots 170 million hours on TeraGrid for Q2 2008
  
• Supercomputing a Cure [ PDF version]
  Ranger's parallel computing power enables researchers to model the largest biomolecular apparatus to date
  
• Michael Norman [ PDF version]
  Michael Norman’s record-setting simulations on Ranger reconstruct the Reionization Era
  
• Data-driven Office Dynamics [ PDF version]
  Emerging field of Information Visualization helps archivists make sense of organizational records
  
• Testing the Limits of the Standard Model [ PDF version]
  Quantum chromodynamicists use Ranger to explore sub-atomic physics
  
• Milestones in Molecular Simulation [ PDF version]
  Novel technique extends times of molecular dynamics simulations to lifelike lengths
  
• STAR Rising [ PDF version]
  TACC Industrial Affiliates program helps companies test high-tech ideas
  
• Connecting the Virtual Human [ PDF version]
  Ranger helps scientists model 3-D blood flow through the arterial tree
  
• The Computational Microscope [ PDF version]
  Ranger's parallel computing power enables researchers to model the largest biomolecular apparatus to date
  
• Turbulent Times [ PDF version]
  TACC helps researchers explore the physics of flow
  
• Powering Discoveries [ PDF version]
  Texas Advanced Computing Center’s latest supercomputer fuels a new era of scientific breakthroughs
  
• Nanoelectronics on a pencil tip [ PDF version]
  TACC-supported research explores novel graphene transistors
  
• New TACC User Portal and Accounting System Improve HPC Experience [ PDF version]
  Users will feel the difference
  
• Treating the Patient, Not the Illness [ PDF version]
  TACC collaborates with Peter Coveney of University College London on cutting-edge HIV simulations
  
• Matching Simulation to Reality in the Life of the Universe [ PDF version]
  TACC's systems stimulate cosmological discovery
  
• Remodeling the Mind [ PDF version]
  Cognitive Psychologist David Gilden uses Lonestar to explore vision, cognition and attention
  
• Designing the Nanofuture [ PDF version]
  TACC supercomputers help Alex Demkov devise tomorrow?s semiconductors
  
• Sailing the Uncharted Seas of Materials Discovery [ PDF version]
  Dr. Stefano Curtarolo teams with TACC to explore new materials
  
• Shedding Light on the Dark Ages of the Cosmos [ PDF version]
  TACC helps cosmologists model the first billion years of the universe
  
• TACC Showcases the future at SC’07 [ PDF version]
  
  
• From Data to Discovery [ PDF version]
  TACC-developed EnVision software simplifies remote visualization
  
• TACC Partners with IBM's World Community Grid to Speed Scientific Research [ PDF version]
  Between keystrokes and without blinking an eye, you can help solve the world's most important problems.
  
• The Flu and the Mystery of Proton Transport [ PDF version]
  TACC's Lonestar and other TeraGrid HPC resources enable new insight into proton movement and anti-flu drugs
  
• From Katrina Forward: Producing Better Storm Surge Forecasts [ PDF version]
  ADCIRC: The Next Generation Storm Surge Model
  
• Educating our Future Scientists [ PDF version]
  TACC teaches advanced computing knowledge and skills to students of all ages
  
• The Science of Small Takes a Big Computer [ PDF version]
  The Computational Physics of Nanostructures
  
• Ripples in Spacetime - Solved! [ PDF version]
  Lonestar supercomputer instrumental in solving binary black-hole simulations.
  
• An Attractive 'Spin' on a Dark Subject [ PDF version]
  Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Center for Relativity (CfR) are using computers from the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) to provide a better understanding of the interactions between spinning black holes.
  
• First Warning [ PDF version]
  With advanced computing models and new technologies, university helps Gulf Coast predict and prepare for major hurricanes.
  
• Grid Computing on the Rise in Latin America [ PDF version]
  
• TACC and Sun Microsystems Develop New Remote Visualization Software [ PDF version]
  Researchers can now create compelling visualizations of massive datasets from the convenience of a local desktop or laptop
• The Human Code [ PDF version]
  Researcher's handcrafted work makes world's fastest computers run even faster
• GridPort 4 [ PDF version]
  TACC’s GridPort software empowers users in the rapid development of highly functional grid portals
• Here There Be Dragons [ PDF version]
  Scientists need sophisticated visualization tools to interpret simulations and observational data, and these depend upon the technologies of computer graphics.
• Dreams of the Final Library [ PDF version]
  Professor Robert van de Geijn of the Computer Sciences department at The University of Texas at Austin wants to revolutionize dense linear algebra with a new system that is "not your father's static library."
• Microscopic but Mighty: Mechanical Marvels [ PDF version]
  Dr. Dmitri Makarov of Chemistry/Biochemistry looks at load-bearing proteins and their cousins.
• TACC: A Powerhouse in the TeraGrid [PDF version]
  TACC makes major contributions to the nation's largest experiment in building a capable grid as part of the scientific infrastructure.
• State of GRACE [ PDF version]
  Professor Byron Tapley of the UT Center for Space Research and his colleagues are using TACC resources to refine satellite measurements of the Earth's gravity field. In the process, they're learning more about the Earth's water budget, climate, and other important processes.
• Grids and Collaboration at TACC [ PDF version]
  To update the UT research community on recent developments in collaborative grids
  locally and nationwide, TACC and the UT Physics Department cosponsored a seminar
  by the University of Florida's Paul Avery, Director of the Open Science Grid.
• CAREER Award Helps TACC Researcher to Study Nanostructures [ PDF version]
  Gyeong S. Hwang's multiscale computational methods help characterize the behavior of tiny structures of silicon/germanium.
• The TeraGrid Flood Modeling Science Gateway [ PDF version]
  Imagine that a major hurricane will make landfall within the next 24 hours over a heavily populated coastal city like Houston, Texas.
• The Unbearable Uncertainties of Climate Change [ PDF version]
  While computational models of global climate show remarkable qualitative agreement, they also differ widely in their sensitivity to projected increases in greenhouse gases.
• A Boost for Bioinformatics in the Context of Evolution [ PDF version]
  Biology is a data-rich science--and Professor Daniel Miranker at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) has a revolutionary new methodology for making the most of it.
• Secrets of Shear Thinning [PDF version]
  Research profile of a TACC scientist who studies a special fluid domain
• Meet Maverick [ PDF version]
  TACC's New Machine to Excel at Terascale Visualization
• Understanding Impacts: One Researcher's Story [ PDF version]
  Eric Fahrenthold's Hybrid Code Gives Insight on Loss of Columbia
• Robert Wyatt's New Approach to Fundamental Problems in Quantum Chemistry [ PDF version]
  Quantum Trajectory Method is Promising
• The World of Thomas Hughes [ PDF version]
  Computational Mechanics for Engineering Design
• What Hit Odessa? [ PDF version]
  UT Researcher Computes the Origin of the Odessa Crater