Supercomputers are powerful machines with great names—Blue Waters, Bridges, Jetstream, Comet. But a new one will soon be joining that list: Frontera. The $60 million machine will live at the University of Texas at Austin and is scheduled to come online next year.
Researchers have used computer models on the Stampede2 supercomputer to replicate the dispersal of gases from the April 4, 2017 chemical weapons attack in northwest Syria. The simulations were able to capture real world conditions despite a scarcity of information. Recently, the team developed a coarse model that uses seasonal conditions as background information to speed up calculations, reducing forecasting time from days to minutes.
HIV-1 replicates in ninja-like ways. The virus slips through the membrane of vital white blood cells. Inside, HIV-1 copies its genes and scavenges parts to build a protective bubble for its copies. Scientists don’t understand many of the details of how HIV-1 can fool our immune system cells so effectively. The virus infects 1.2 million people in the U.S. and 37 million people worldwide in 2018. Supercomputers helped model a key building block in the HIV-1 protective capsid, which could lead to strategies for potential therapeutic intervention in HIV-1 replication.
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has won the competition for the NSF’s latest leadership-class supercomputer. The machine is scheduled to be installed at the University of Texas at Austin in 2019 and is expected to be in operation for at least five years.
A dump truck's worth of plastic empties into the ocean every minute. Worldwide, humankind produces over 300 million tons of plastic each year, much of which is predicted to last centuries to millennia and pollutes both aquatic and terrestrial environments.
Chemists at the University of California, San Diego describe how they used supercomputing to design a sheet of proteins that toggle between different states of porosity and density.
Much remains unknown about the hazards the space environment will present to future space travelers. Recent simulations conducted by researchers from Texas A&M University, the University of Texas Medical Branch, and NASA at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TAAC) have shed more light on the problem and demonstrated the value of modern HPC in assessing risk from cosmic radiation.
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin is partnering with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) at Columbia University to host one of the largest data collections for Earth sciences of its type in the country.
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin today announced that it has partnered with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to provide researchers with access to advanced computing resources as part of an effort to develop novel computational approaches for complex manufacturing and design problems.
There’s a more than 40 percent chance that you will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in your lifetime, and a one in five chance that it will be terminal.
As Austin traffic continues to grow, the city has a unique tool at its disposal to find solutions to traffic woes: UT Austin’s Stampede 2 supercomputer.
This on-demand, light-triggered drug release method could transform medicine, especially the treatment of cancer. Clinicians are beginning to test plasmonic nanovesicles on head and neck tumors. They can also help efforts to study the nervous system in real-time and provide insights into how the brain works.
It's called Stampede2, a supercomputer put together by the University of Texas Advanced Computing Center with support from Dell EMC, Intel and Seagate, funded by the National Science Foundation.
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin today announced a new partnership with the Dell Medical School’s Women’s Health research team to be spearheaded by Kelly Gaither.
At peak performance, Stampede2, the flagship supercomputer at UT Austin’s Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), will be capable of performing 18 quadrillion operations per second (18 petaflops, in supercomputer lingo).
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin has teamed up with Austin, Texas-based non-profit Children’s Optimal Health (COH) to provide the technical infrastructure needed to help solve issues in children’s health and education throughout Central Texas, including disease, mental health and adverse childhood experiences.
UT-Austin’s Texas Advanced Computing Center is rolling out a system upgrade this month that is expected to place its newest supercomputer among the 10 most powerful computing machines on the planet.
Published on September 28, 2017 by John Holden, The Irish Times
A whole new tongue – the language of computers – will be what separates the educated from the ignorant masses of tomorrow. Understanding how to write code for computers is already becoming one of the most highly prized skill sets anyone can have in the global economy.
