Performance Monitoring & Optimization
TACC provides job-level activity and system level tools and technologies to make users more efficient and effective.
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Raising the level of abstraction of application-level checkpointing.
An easy-to-use methodology and tool that requires just a single execution of the input application to characterize its predominant communication behavior and determine the MPI configuration that may enhance its performance on the target combination of MPI library and hardware architecture.
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Machine Learning & Analytics
At the edge of statistics, computer science and emerging applications in industry, machine learning and analytics focus on the development of fast and efficient algorithms for real-time processing of data as a main goal to deliver accurate predictions of various kinds.
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Meeting the needs of faculty and researchers for data collection services, and contributing to the potential of data-driven research to make discoveries.
Simplifying data management for administrators and researchers while reducing the overall cost of next-generation storage systems.
O'Donnell Foundation
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Next Generation Portals & Interfaces
The effective use of advanced computing resources is a challenge to researchers. Providing powerful and intuitive interfaces accelerates the rate at which science can be performed by allowing researchers to focus on scientific exploration rather than technological hurdles.
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An open-access online community resource for Arabidopsis model plant research.
Allows researchers to perform drug screening using the Autodock Vina (Scripps) program on the Lonestar4 supercomputer to search more than 700,000 drug-like compounds in only a few hours.
Free
To develop and operate computational resources in support of grand challenges in the life sciences.
A web interface for users to manage their TACC account, projects, and allocations.
Base Funding
A web portal that provides immunology researchers with powerful data analysis infrastructure.
A resource-sharing Web platform that will enable computer models and simulations of natural hazards that can be validated against real-world data, creating an easily accessible resource for natural hazards researchers across the country.
NSF
A sustainable, open and easy-to-use repository that organizes the images and related experimental measurements of diverse porous materials, improves access of porous media analysis results to a wider community of geosciences and engineering researchers not necessarily trained in computer science or data analysis, and enhances productivity, scientific inquiry, and engineering decisions founded on a data-driven basis.
NSF
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Health Informatics & Compliance
Health informatics is the study of resources and methods for the management of health information. TACC is capable of handling research with data sets containing personalized health information through HIPAA and FISMA compliance. This enables deeper connections to clinical studies and research in human health.
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Create a detailed spatial-temporal molecular atlas of the developing lung in preterm infants to young children.
Develop a computational foundation utilizing relational database management system to significantly enhance the comparative analysis of RNA sequences.
Develop the integrated resources available at CyVerse and Animal QTLdb, thereby leveraging the prior national funding in cyberinfrastructure to ultimately address issues of importance to the livestock industry.
Allows researchers to perform drug screening using the Autodock Vina (Scripps) program on the Lonestar4 supercomputer to search more than 700,000 drug-like compounds in only a few hours.
Free
Elucidate early embryonic cardiac adaptations in response to altered blood flow conditions, and the progression of these adaptations at later stages of cardiac development.
Provide a better understanding of how genes are affected by structural and chemical modifications of DNA and the chromosomes in which it is housed.
Identify quantitative image-based biomarkers that are predictive of successful outcomes following reperfusion therapy.
A web portal that provides immunology researchers with powerful data analysis infrastructure.
Improve the quality of clinical care and improve patient safety by creating visualizations that provide clinicians with a systems view of physiologic and pathologic processes as well as the efficacy and confounding interaction of pharmacologic interventions.
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Future Vislab Technologies
Future Visualization Laboratories will play a crucial role in the field by creating and customizing interactive visualization systems that can support the tasks of understanding, analyzing and making decisions based on Big Data, both in a laboratory and out on the field. These systems will combine multiple technologies (e.g., virtual reality, augmented reality, 2D visualizations, gesture-based interactions) in ways that scientists and scholars can easily integrate into their normal workflows.
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An open source virtual reality framework for experiential storytelling.
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Next Generation Computing Systems
What will TACC build next? TACC leadership and staff are constantly monitoring, evaluating and developing new and innovative technologies in the marketplace to consider what next generation of computer systems will be most effective for science and engineering. Projects in this category are early and experimental technology evaluations, usually in collaboration with industry partners, that look at the efficacy of future system designs. TACC maintains its own expertise in this area creating new frontiers and new challenges for next generation computing.
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The ACELab develops and packages open source benchmarks appropriate for the HPC environment.
Base Funded
Simplifying data management for administrators and researchers while reducing the overall cost of next-generation storage systems.
O'Donnell Foundation
Developing new materials to teach the scientific community how to adapt their codes for the Intel MIC Architecture.
Stampede Supercomputer
Promotes efficiency among scientists using advanced computing technology, and provides new educational and research opportunities for UT Austin students and faculty in emerging energy systems.
NEDO
NTT
An Interactive Parallelization Tool (IPT) for assisting domain-experts and students in efficiently parallelizing their existing C/C++/Fortran applications is being developed in this project.
NSF
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An open research system to investigate the use of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) as data center accelerators to improve performance, reduce power consumption, and open new research avenues of investigation.
Discovery is a testbed for benchmarking and testing hardware. TACC uses it to experiment and evaluate new technologies.
Fabric is an experimental system combining IBM's latest Power 8 processors with NVIDIA GPUs, and FPGAs from Altera and Xilinx, for researchers exploring alternate computer architectures.
A system dedicated to supporting workflows using Hadoop MapReduce and other Hadoop Distributed File System based tools.
O'Donnell Foundation
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Bio Informatics
Bioinformatics is the computer-assisted data management discipline that helps researchers gather, analyze, and represent information to understand life's processes in the healthy and disease states, and find new or better drugs. TACC's Life Sciences Group is committed to providing the research community with the bioinformatics computational tools and expertise needed to address modern biological research questions. The TACC team is focused on ensuring that TACC maintains the hardware, software and domain expertise to support a wide variety of bioscience research.
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An open-access online community resource for Arabidopsis model plant research.
Studies the prevalence, heritability and potential consequences of epigenetic variation on specific maize inbred lines that capture much of species' natural diversity.
Develop a computational foundation utilizing relational database management system to significantly enhance the comparative analysis of RNA sequences.
Develop the integrated resources available at CyVerse and Animal QTLdb, thereby leveraging the prior national funding in cyberinfrastructure to ultimately address issues of importance to the livestock industry.
Elucidate early embryonic cardiac adaptations in response to altered blood flow conditions, and the progression of these adaptations at later stages of cardiac development.
Provide a better understanding of how genes are affected by structural and chemical modifications of DNA and the chromosomes in which it is housed.
To develop and operate computational resources in support of grand challenges in the life sciences.
Identify quantitative image-based biomarkers that are predictive of successful outcomes following reperfusion therapy.
A web portal that provides immunology researchers with powerful data analysis infrastructure.
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Software Defined Visualization
Software-defined visualization libraries provide performant rendering on general-purpose processors, including both traditional rasterization methods and ray tracing methods that can provide improved visual fidelity and expanded opportunities for simulation integration. By removing the dependence on particular hardware for performant rendering, these libraries enable visualization capabilities for both in situ and post-process analysis across the various hardware architectures found in high performance computing.
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This project develops a dynamic ray scheduling algorithm that effectively manages both ray state and data accesses.
Longhorn Supercomputer
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TACC's software programs provides algorithms and standard libraries that perform calculation, data processing, and automated reasoning. TACC's programmers also create custom libraries. Most modern software systems provide libraries that implement the majority of system services. Such libraries have commoditized the services which a modern application requires. As such, most code used by modern applications is provided in these system libraries.
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Derives Krylov methods in the FLAME framework to show how FLAME can simplify the process of deriving iterative methods, and make a case that a Flame-based environment for deriving new iterative methods is a distinct, and attractive, possibility.
NSF 0904907
A novel strategy for sparse direct factorizations that is geared towards the matrices that arise from hp adaptive Finite Element Methods.
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