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.
As a Dell Technologies HPC & AI Center of Excellence, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) partners with Dell to enable discoveries that advance science and society through the application of advanced computing technologies.
In May 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the antiviral drug remdesivir for emergency treatment of COVID-19. Scientists are investigating ways to improve its effectiveness.
Many patients have difficulty recovering from traumatic brain injuries. Stem cell therapy has shown promise in various studies, however, and now, researchers are using supercomputers to help investigate this novel treatment.
As group lead of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Robotic Surface Mobility Group, Masahiro Ono and his colleagues are preparing for a new, smarter generation of Mars rovers – and they’re using supercomputing to do it.
Published on July 28, 2020 by Austin Technology Incubator
A collaborative group of more than 50 organizations in the academic, public and private sectors has formed the Texas Global Health Security Innovation Consortium (TEXGHS) to coordinate efforts to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and future pandemics by supporting innovators working toward pandemic readiness, response, recovery and resiliency.
Across the world, hundreds of scientists log into the mainframe, creating simulations as grand as a replica of the city of Austin for tracking the coronavirus’ spread, and as microscopic as a model of the virus itself that can help vaccine scientists destroy it.
The collaboration between the three UT System institutions, based in Houston and Austin, will support the developmentof teams that bring together MD Anderson’s oncology expertise and data with novel mechanism-based computational modeling techniques led by researchers at Oden Institute and TACC.
SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind the current Covid-19 pandemic […] has a coating of complex structures composed of interlocking sugar molecules known as glycans. This coating is thought to help the virus to slip past immune systems undetected.
UT epidemiologist Lauren Ancel Meyers spent her career planning for infectious disease outbreaks. She has had to rapidly adapt to the very different challenges posed by the novel coronavirus.
High performance computing systems at TACC are being used in coronavirus-related projects that address everything from the search for treatments and vaccines to understanding the nature of the virus to modeling the spread of the outbreak.
Supercomputers provide scientists who are studying COVID-19 with unique capabilities: they can explore the structure and behavior of the virus at the molecular level while designing drugs and forecasting the spread of the disease much faster than would otherwise be possible.
Published on May 15, 2020 by COVID-19 HPC Consortium
The two virus strains are physically very similar, with the exception of minor variations in the amino acids, including some that bind to the human ACE2 receptor. So when in March the WHO declared the current outbreak a pandemic, some in the scientific community may have assumed we’d be facing a similar threat. They couldn’t have been more mistaken.
