Jose Rizo-Rey is a professor of biophysics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is using the fastest academic supercomputer in the U.S. to study an important process that helps the brain think, in hopes of finding targets for therapies to treat diseases like Alzheimer's and schizophrenia.
Equivalent to 11,415 years of compute, this image of a supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy owes its existence to human ingenuity and a five-year partnership between the Event Horizon Telescope array, the Frontera supercomputer at TACC, and NSF’s Open Science Grid.
With HPC and AI workloads only getting larger and demanding more compute power and bandwidth capabilities, system architects are trying to map out the best ways to feed the beast as they ponder future systems.
Pohani and Dan Stanzione (picture, right), executive director of TACC, spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, for a digital CUBE Conversation. They discussed the Dell/TACC partnership, the new technologies the partnership created, and how these innovations are solving tangible public and private sector problems.
A mountain-sized mass of igneous rock lurking 3–12 miles beneath the coast of southern Japan could be acting like a 'magnet' for megaquakes, a study has warned. The rock, known as the Kumano Pluton, lies within the Nankai subduction zone, a region where the Philippine Sea Plate descends underneath the Japanese edge of the Eurasian plate.
The University of Texas at Austin is ranked No. 1 among U.S. universities in research financed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in fiscal year 2020, according to the annual Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey. The university had NSF research expenditures totaling more than $144 million.
CRISPR-Cas systems which naturally occur in bacteria are limited because they can make only small tweaks to genes. In recent years, scientists discovered a different system in bacteria that might lead to even more powerful methods for gene editing, given its unique ability to insert genes or whole sections of DNA in a genome.
The real workhorses of the 3,000 or so HPC centers on Earth are generally much smaller machines, doing smaller scale but no less real – and some would say more important – scientific research, like the new “Lonestar” supercomputer being installed at TACC.
On Sept. 30, TACC and its longest partners — the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Dell Technologies — celebrated the milestone with remarks on the growing importance of advanced computing and TACC’s role powering discoveries across science and engineering.
Research scientist Gabor Toth at the University of Michigan wants to be able to predict large solar storms. He and his team want to use these predictions to protect Earth from a potentially disastrous space weather event.
The U.S. National Science Foundation announced the establishment of 11 new NSF National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes, building on the first round of seven institutes funded in 2020. The combined investment of $220 million expands the reach of these institutes to include a total of 37 states.
The Biden administration has created a new task force to work on a roadmap meant to expand access to research tools to advance innovation in the field of artificial intelligence.
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin’s Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have merged various quantitative imaging measurements with computational simulations to create an accurate model for calculating the progression of high-grade glioma.
The Arecibo Observatory telescope, which collapsed in December last year following years of hurricane damage, is in the process of being dismantled, for safety reasons. There’s a plan to make sure its decades of valuable science data is preserved and backed up.
The leadership-class system, Frontera, lets researchers add resolution to models of the SARS-CoV-2 virus; increase the accuracy of space weather forecasts; or provide theoretical predictions for particle physics experiments that can’t yet be performed on Earth.
Frontera — the 9th fastest supercomputer in the world, deployed at The University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) — has expanded thanks to a supplemental award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which funded the system, and a substantial contribution from Dell Technologies and Intel.
An innovative partnership at The University of Texas at Austin takes aim at medicine down to the individual level by applying state-of-the-art computation to medical care.
TRENDS FROM THE TRENCHES—Dan Stanzione has been working at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin for three quarters of its 19-year tenure. Now the executive director and associate vice president of research, Stanzione runs TACC as both the research computing arm of the University of Texas as well as an independent National Science Foundation-funded supercomputing center.
