TACC Rebooted

TACC's First System
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TACC receives a 272-processor, liquid-cooled Cray T3E transitioned from the San Diego Supercomputer Center through the NPACI project.

TACC Visualization Lab Opens
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The ACES Visualization Laboratory on UT Austin's main campus is assumed by TACC.

TACC Grows to Multiple Systems
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Longhorn: A Power4 system with a peak performance of 300 gigaflops.
Tejas: TACC's first production Linux/x86 cluster
Santa Rita: An Intel Itanium-based cluster

HiPCAT Established
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The High Performance Computing Across Texas (HiPCAT) consortium is established by researchers at Rice University, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, University of Houston, and The University of Texas at Austin.

Lonestar2 Deployed

TACC joins TeraGrid
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) awards TACC a partnership in the TeraGrid, the world's largest, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research.

TACC User Portal
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Developed and deployed by TACC staff, the portal allows researchers to log into and interact with TACC resources remotely.

GRACE Research in Climate Effects

Maverick1 Deployed
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A unique high-performance, large shared memory Sun system provides remote 3D graphics and data-intensive compute resources for research like global weather prediction and homeland security.

Biomedical Research
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TACC places a staff expert at the UT Southwestern Medical Center to work directly with biomedical researchers, helping them use the computing resources at TACC, including Lonestar and Maverick.

New Building

Lonestar3 Deployed
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In partnership with UT System and available to researchers at all 15 UT institutions, Lonestar3 debuts as the most powerful academic supercomputer in the U.S. and the 12th on the Top 500 list.

Gravitational Waves
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Dr. Richard Matzner, a UT physicist, uses Lonestar3 to simulate binary black hole mergers and aid the search for gravitational waves.

STAR Program
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The Science and Technology Affiliates for Research (STAR) program, instituted by TACC, supports and enhances private sector R&D using advanced computing technologies.

First Billion Years of the Universe
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Using TACC's resources, Volker Bromm and his team model the first billion years of the universe, shedding light on the cosmic past and future. The work is featured in Scientific American.

Ranger Deployed

Computational Biology
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The program is established to provide the life sciences research community with computational tools and expertise.

Stallion Deployed
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The ACES Visualization Lab is upgraded and the world's highest resolution tiled display, with 75 screens and a total of 307 megapixels, is installed.

Corral Deployed
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A Dell/Data Direct Networks high performance storage system is launched for hosting and managing digital data collections and services.

H1N1 Research
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Using Ranger, Dr. Klaus Schulten and colleagues develop the first atomistic model of the H1N1 virus and discover how mutations in viral proteins lead to drug resistance.

iPlant Collaborative
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TACC begins major involvement with the iPlant Collaborative, a $50 million, 5-year project to create the cyberinfrastructure needed to tackle Grand Challenge questions in plant biology.

Texas-Sized Supercomputer Finds Massive Black Hole
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Astronomers use TACC's Lonestar supercomputer to determine that the black hole at the heart of M87, one of the largest nearby galaxies, is two to three times more massive than previously thought.

Longhorn Deployed
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TACC launches Longhorn, the largest hardware-accelerated interactive visualization cluster in the world, as well as the Longhorn Visualization Portal, a remote and collaborative tool for the national science community.

Arts & Humanities
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TACC's initiative to support digital media, arts and humanities offers the power of advanced computing technologies to enable these communities to study and exhibit digital works.

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Cover of Science
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Using Ranger, Omar Ghattas and his associates produce an unprecedented view of plate tectonics and the forces that drive it. The research appears on the cover of Science.

SCEC CyberShake Project
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TACC teams up with the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) to create next-generation seismic hazard predictions that are more comprehensive than anything that had been created before.

NARA Collaboration
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TACC collaborates with the National Archives and Records Association (NARA) to create visualization tools for 21st Century digital archives.

600,000 Hours Donated to Japan
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In the wake of the tsunami and earthquake in Japan, TACC donates 600,000 compute hours to researchers to simulate the potential environmental impact of radiation in the air and water.

Lonestar4 Deployed
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The NSF-awarded, 302 teraflop Dell/Intel cluster provides shared memory computing and remote visualization capabilities.

XSEDE
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TACC is selected as one of the leaders of The eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project.

Construction Completed
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TACC completes an 11,000-square-foot machine room, a new utilities plant, thermal energy storage, and a new seminar room.

Hurricane Predictions Improve
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Using Ranger, researchers improve intensity predictions for hurricanes by up to 40% over National Hurricane Center forecasts.

New Stampede Deployed
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At nearly 10 petaflops, Stampede goes into production on January 7. TACC staff designed, built and deployed Stampede, working closely with Dell, Intel and academic partners.

Stockyard Deployed
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A massive, 20 petabyte global file system is connected to all of TACC's computing and visualization systems.

Brain Tumors and Alzheimer's Disease

Maverick Deployed
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TACC adds a new HP/NVIDIA interactive visualization and data analytics system to its comprehensive suite of resources.

Science Gateways Released
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TACC releases the Agave API, a cloud-based platform for gateway development, and Gateway DNA, a collection of open source components enabling the rapid development of science gateways.

Data-Intensive Supercomputer Deployed
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Wrangler, a groundbreaking new system, enables researchers to tackle the most complex, data science challenges.

Chameleon Cloud Computing Testbed Launched
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A new configurable, large-scale environment lets computer scientists develop and experiment with novel cloud architectures and pursue new applications.

Developing DesignSafe-CI
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TACC teams with UT's Cockrell School of Engineering to create the natural hazards engineering portal, DesignSafe, that will help the U.S. design more resilient buildings, levees and other public infrastructure.

Gordon Bell Prize at SC15
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UT geologists use Stampede1 to model mantle convection and win prize for outstanding achievement in high performance computing.

A Texas-sized Resource for State Researchers
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TACC deploys its second petascale system, Lonestar5, to advance science and engineering research across the state of Texas.

Cyberinfrastructure Enters the Cloud
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TACC partners with Indiana University to deploy Jetstream, the first NSF-supported cloud resource for science and engineering research.

LIGO Confirms Gravitational Waves

Hikari: Energy-Efficiency Computing
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TACC debuts Hikari, the first supercomputer in the U.S. that runs on solar power and high voltage direct current, in partnership with Japan.

TACC Expands
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On its 15th anniversary, TACC dedicates the new Advanced Computing Building, which includes space for growing staff and an experimental Visualization Lab.

Stampede2 Debuts

Modeling the Heart
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Stampede helps Johns Hopkins and Ohio State research identify a new metric to predict blood clots in the heart.

TACC Partners with NASA
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TACC signs five-year advanced computing partnership with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to provide cyberinfrastructure and expertise.

Announcing Frontera

TACC Teams with DARPA
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TACC develops a user-friendly, collaborative computing environment to help researchers in science domains where firm, predictive models don't exist, such as synthetic biology.

Preparing for Chemical Attacks
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Researchers from The University of Texas San Antonio use Stampede2 to develop models that predict how chemical weapons disperse in the atmosphere.

Fastest Academic Supercomputer in the World

Tapis Platform Development
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TACC, UT Austin, University of Hawaii create open source API platform for powering research.

Peeling Back the Darkness of M87
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TACC systems play pivotal role in Event Horizon Telescope's first-ever black hole image.

TACC Supercomputers Join COVID-19 Fight
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Frontera, Stampede2 key resources within the White House-led COVID-19 HPC Consortium.

All-Atom Coronavirus Simulations Completed on Frontera 
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Amaro Lab's tests are first step in developing full envelope of 200 million atoms.

TACC visualization on Science cover
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Researchers create a desalination membrane crucial for maximizing reverse-osmosis and water filtration.

20 years of powering discoveries
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TACC celebrates mission of providing researchers with computing resources and expertise to advance science and society.