Published on September 14, 2017 by Rob Mitchum, University of Chicago
$10M NSF award to TACC, University of Chicago, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and Northwestern University will add hardware and expand system access
Published on September 11, 2017 by Faith Singer-Villalobos
TACC announces a $300,000 award for INCLUDES “Supporting Pacific Indigenous Computing Excellence (SPICE) funded by the NSF to enhance U.S. leadership in STEM discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion, and broadening participation
Published on August 2, 2017 by Faith Singer-Villalobos
The National Science Foundation has awarded The University of Texas at Austin, the Texas Advanced Computing Center, and the Salk Institute a $9 million NeuroNex grant to explore the brain in microscopic detail and understand the cell biology of the nervous system.
New supercomputer at The University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center, largest at any U.S. university, will support nation's scientists and engineers
Published on May 15, 2017 by Faith Singer-Villalobos
The Texas Digital Library, along with TACC, has joined the Chronopolis digital preservation network, becoming the first new node since the network's inception in 2008
Researchers from TACC, UT Health Science Center and Philips Healthcare develop a pipeline to power fast, accurate image processing for precision medicine
Published on November 23, 2016 by Faith Singer-Villalobos
Aided by TACC, a team of researchers at Northeastern University recently completed what appears to be the largest known instance of transparent checkpointing.
Published on November 11, 2016 by Faith Singer-Villalobos
Co-located at SC16, the inaugural Advanced Computing for Social Change program will capture the imagination of millennial and post-millennial students by engaging them in a computing challenge that uses computation, data analysis and visualization to take a data centric view of the police violence and rhetoric surrounding the BlackLivesMatter movement.
Published on November 7, 2016 by Faith Singer-Villalobos
TACC at The University of Texas at Austin announced the availability of Corral 3, a high-performance parallel file system created to store, share, and publish digital data for researchers across The University of Texas System and around the world. Corral enables researchers to undertake both mathematical and visual analyses of the ever growing digital data collections which are enabling the multitude of Big Data driven discoveries today.
Published on November 4, 2016 by Faith Singer-Villalobos
The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) annual conference, most recently held as XSEDE16 in Miami last July, is transforming into an independent entity designed to unite the high-performance computing and advanced digital research community.
Published on October 27, 2016 by Faith Singer-Villalobos
Computational biophysicist Rommie Amaro is using the Stampede supercomputer at TACC to model the largest atomic level system of the tumor suppression protein p53 to date — over 1.5 million atoms. The simulations identify new "pockets" to reactivate p53 which would be a tremendous boost for future anti-cancer drug discovery.
Published on September 6, 2016 by Faith Singer-Villalobos
Using a unique computational approach to rapidly sample, in millisecond time intervals, proteins in their natural state of gyrating, bobbing, and weaving, a research team has identified promising drug leads that may selectively combat heart disease, from arrhythmias to cardiac failure.
Published on July 29, 2016 by Faith Singer-Villalobos
As the lead partner for the Scientific Software Collaborative, TACC will oversee a component-based, open-source, extensible framework for gateway design, integration, and services.
Published on July 19, 2016 by Faith Singer-Villalobos
Good news for US researchers working with big data: Starting September 1, they'll have access to Jetstream, the first National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported cloud resource for science and engineering research.
Published on June 2, 2016 by Faith Singer-Villalobos
NSF award to UT Austin builds on success of Stampede supercomputer system and provides additional advanced computational capacity to thousands of researchers
TACC announces that the Lonestar 5 supercomputer is in full production and is ready to contribute to advancing science across the state of Texas. Managed by TACC, the center’s second petaflop system is primed to be a leading computing resource for the engineering and science research community.
