Supercomputing resources at TACC played a role in the processing of data related to the recent headline-worthy release of the first image of a black hole.
James Carson of TACC and his colleagues have been working on the Molecular Atlas of Lung Development Program, known as LungMAP, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Premature babies often have problems with lung development. Mapping gene activity improves understanding and may lead to improved treatments for lung disease.
At SC18, TACC shared an award with UT Austin’s Oden Institute for the “Best Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase” -- Circulation in the Arctic Ocean and its Marginal Seas: From Low Latitudes to the Pole and Back.
Using TACC software and supercomputers, a new study covers 450 million years of evolution to study gene activity in the brain and how it relates to a species being monogamous.
In November 2018, two dozen students from across the U.S. and around the world teamed up to develop solutions to the issue of violence as part of the Computing4Chanage event, which empowers students to create change through advanced computing.
Improving maternal care remains a focus for experts in Texas. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University of Texas at Austin a $1.2 million Smart and Connected Health grant to help with research using smartphones to track the activity and behavior of 1,000 pregnant women in the Austin area.
Women in the U.S. are more likely to die from childbirth or pregnancy-related causes than other women in the developed world. About 700 women die each year in the U.S. as a result of pregnancy or delivery complications.
100 students came from across Texas to learn to code at UT’s J.J. Pickle Research Campus. They attended camps led by some of the best computer scientists and engineers in the world — most at no cost to them.
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.
