Texas Advanced Computing Center
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The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at UT Austin designs and deploys powerful computing technologies to power discoveries that change the world. https://tacc.utexas.edu/
Join NVIDIA’s Ian Buck and a panel of global HPC visionaries to discuss how AI, quantum computing, and next-gen infrastructure are redefining the frontiers of science.
📅 Monday, November 17
🕓 4:00–5:30 pm CT
📍 Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch, Grand Ballroom
👉 Register: lnkd.in/gZevq8Af
📅 Monday, November 17
🕓 4:00–5:30 pm CT
📍 Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch, Grand Ballroom
👉 Register: lnkd.in/gZevq8Af
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Join NVIDIA’s Ian Buck and a panel of global HPC visionaries to discuss how AI, quantum computing, and next-gen infrastructure are redefining the frontiers of science.
📅 Monday, November 17
🕓 4:00–5:30 pm CT
📍 Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch, Grand Ballroom
👉 Register: lnkd.in/gZevq8Af
📅 Monday, November 17
🕓 4:00–5:30 pm CT
📍 Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch, Grand Ballroom
👉 Register: lnkd.in/gZevq8Af
Alana Benavides has joined the EPIC team as a Project Support Specialist, where she’ll help strengthen partnerships between TACC and the broader computer science education community. She’ll coordinate outreach events, provide support, and assist with professional development.
Welcome aboard, Alana!
Welcome aboard, Alana!
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Alana Benavides has joined the EPIC team as a Project Support Specialist, where she’ll help strengthen partnerships between TACC and the broader computer science education community. She’ll coordinate outreach events, provide support, and assist with professional development.
Welcome aboard, Alana!
Welcome aboard, Alana!
🥕🖥️ Data for Hurricane Disaster Recovery 🌩️🌀
An award-winning dataset from the NHERI DesignSafe infrastructure project explores how Hurricane Harvey disrupted food access across the Houston area in 2017.
Learn more: www.designsafe-ci.org/community/ne...
An award-winning dataset from the NHERI DesignSafe infrastructure project explores how Hurricane Harvey disrupted food access across the Houston area in 2017.
Learn more: www.designsafe-ci.org/community/ne...
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
🥕🖥️ Data for Hurricane Disaster Recovery 🌩️🌀
An award-winning dataset from the NHERI DesignSafe infrastructure project explores how Hurricane Harvey disrupted food access across the Houston area in 2017.
Learn more: www.designsafe-ci.org/community/ne...
An award-winning dataset from the NHERI DesignSafe infrastructure project explores how Hurricane Harvey disrupted food access across the Houston area in 2017.
Learn more: www.designsafe-ci.org/community/ne...
Join us in welcoming Jennifer Wilson to TACC! 🌟
Jennifer joins the Center Operations Administrative team as an administrative assistant, where she’ll help keep things running smoothly from greeting visitors to coordinating tours to processing travel requests.
Welcome to the team! 🎉
Jennifer joins the Center Operations Administrative team as an administrative assistant, where she’ll help keep things running smoothly from greeting visitors to coordinating tours to processing travel requests.
Welcome to the team! 🎉
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Join us in welcoming Jennifer Wilson to TACC! 🌟
Jennifer joins the Center Operations Administrative team as an administrative assistant, where she’ll help keep things running smoothly from greeting visitors to coordinating tours to processing travel requests.
Welcome to the team! 🎉
Jennifer joins the Center Operations Administrative team as an administrative assistant, where she’ll help keep things running smoothly from greeting visitors to coordinating tours to processing travel requests.
Welcome to the team! 🎉
TACC’s Francesca Samsel presents “A New Default Colormap for ParaView” this Thursday, November 6, at IEEE VIS in Vienna! 🌈
The new colormap helps scientists see data more clearly than ever.
Learn more about the conference: ieeevis.org/year/2025/we...
The new colormap helps scientists see data more clearly than ever.
Learn more about the conference: ieeevis.org/year/2025/we...
November 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
TACC’s Francesca Samsel presents “A New Default Colormap for ParaView” this Thursday, November 6, at IEEE VIS in Vienna! 🌈
The new colormap helps scientists see data more clearly than ever.
Learn more about the conference: ieeevis.org/year/2025/we...
The new colormap helps scientists see data more clearly than ever.
Learn more about the conference: ieeevis.org/year/2025/we...
Upcoming Webinar: Sustaining Collaborative Science with Open-Source Cyberinfrastructure
Friday, 12.5.25 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
Join us to explore Tapis, an open-source API framework enabling collaborative, automated, and reproducible computational research.
Register today: bit.ly/436Rrde
Friday, 12.5.25 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
Join us to explore Tapis, an open-source API framework enabling collaborative, automated, and reproducible computational research.
Register today: bit.ly/436Rrde
Tapis: Sustaining Collaborative Science w/ Open Source Cyberinfrastructure
Join us to learn about the development cycle of the open-source API framework known as Tapis.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Upcoming Webinar: Sustaining Collaborative Science with Open-Source Cyberinfrastructure
Friday, 12.5.25 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
Join us to explore Tapis, an open-source API framework enabling collaborative, automated, and reproducible computational research.
Register today: bit.ly/436Rrde
Friday, 12.5.25 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
Join us to explore Tapis, an open-source API framework enabling collaborative, automated, and reproducible computational research.
Register today: bit.ly/436Rrde
At TACC, our mission is to enable discoveries that advance science and society through the application of advanced computing technologies.
2025 TACC Staff Photo taken in the Advanced Computing Building lobby at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus, UT Austin.
#PoweringDiscoveries
2025 TACC Staff Photo taken in the Advanced Computing Building lobby at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus, UT Austin.
#PoweringDiscoveries
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
At TACC, our mission is to enable discoveries that advance science and society through the application of advanced computing technologies.
2025 TACC Staff Photo taken in the Advanced Computing Building lobby at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus, UT Austin.
#PoweringDiscoveries
2025 TACC Staff Photo taken in the Advanced Computing Building lobby at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus, UT Austin.
#PoweringDiscoveries
A black hole may be the glue holding a distant galaxy together. 🌌
Using TACC’s Lonestar6 supercomputer, researchers simulated the dwarf galaxy Segue 1, about 75,000 light years from Earth, to uncover the mystery.
Discover more: bit.ly/48LkiYd
Using TACC’s Lonestar6 supercomputer, researchers simulated the dwarf galaxy Segue 1, about 75,000 light years from Earth, to uncover the mystery.
Discover more: bit.ly/48LkiYd
October 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A black hole may be the glue holding a distant galaxy together. 🌌
Using TACC’s Lonestar6 supercomputer, researchers simulated the dwarf galaxy Segue 1, about 75,000 light years from Earth, to uncover the mystery.
Discover more: bit.ly/48LkiYd
Using TACC’s Lonestar6 supercomputer, researchers simulated the dwarf galaxy Segue 1, about 75,000 light years from Earth, to uncover the mystery.
Discover more: bit.ly/48LkiYd
Congratulations to the team behind a new dataset documenting Hurricane Ian first-floor elevations in Ft. Myers, FL. The dataset earned a 2025 DesignSafe Dataset Award for its valuable contributions to natural hazards research! 📣🌀🖥️
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@uoregon.bsky.social @universityofri.bsky.social
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@uoregon.bsky.social @universityofri.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Congratulations to the team behind a new dataset documenting Hurricane Ian first-floor elevations in Ft. Myers, FL. The dataset earned a 2025 DesignSafe Dataset Award for its valuable contributions to natural hazards research! 📣🌀🖥️
bit.ly/3L7ogk8
@uoregon.bsky.social @universityofri.bsky.social
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@uoregon.bsky.social @universityofri.bsky.social
Shaping the Future of Computational Science:
A Conversation with Dan Stanzione on HPC, AI, and National Research Infrastructure
Read more: bit.ly/3JooHpD
A Conversation with Dan Stanzione on HPC, AI, and National Research Infrastructure
Read more: bit.ly/3JooHpD
Shaping the Future of Computational Science - Edge, the Nation's Nonprofit Technology Consortium
Shaping the Future of Computational Science: A Conversation with Dan Stanzione on HPC, AI, and National Research Infrastructure In the rapidly evolving landscape of high performance computing, artific...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Shaping the Future of Computational Science:
A Conversation with Dan Stanzione on HPC, AI, and National Research Infrastructure
Read more: bit.ly/3JooHpD
A Conversation with Dan Stanzione on HPC, AI, and National Research Infrastructure
Read more: bit.ly/3JooHpD
Join the NERSC End-to-End AI for Science Bootcamp — December 10–11, 2025!
NERSC, in collaboration with NVIDIA and OpenACC, is hosting a 2-day, fully remote bootcamp designed to help researchers harness the power of AI and HPC for scientific discovery.
Learn more & apply here: bit.ly/4qiGyit
NERSC, in collaboration with NVIDIA and OpenACC, is hosting a 2-day, fully remote bootcamp designed to help researchers harness the power of AI and HPC for scientific discovery.
Learn more & apply here: bit.ly/4qiGyit
NERSC End-to-End AI for Science Bootcamp, December 2025
NERSC/NVIDIA is hosting an End-to-End AI for Science bootcamp in Dec 2025.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Join the NERSC End-to-End AI for Science Bootcamp — December 10–11, 2025!
NERSC, in collaboration with NVIDIA and OpenACC, is hosting a 2-day, fully remote bootcamp designed to help researchers harness the power of AI and HPC for scientific discovery.
Learn more & apply here: bit.ly/4qiGyit
NERSC, in collaboration with NVIDIA and OpenACC, is hosting a 2-day, fully remote bootcamp designed to help researchers harness the power of AI and HPC for scientific discovery.
Learn more & apply here: bit.ly/4qiGyit
Welcome, Cohort 4! 🎉
Through the U.S. NSF Leadership-Class Computing Facility Internship, participants dive into world-class computing resources, mentorship, and hands-on training building the skills and connections to jumpstart their careers in tech.
Through the U.S. NSF Leadership-Class Computing Facility Internship, participants dive into world-class computing resources, mentorship, and hands-on training building the skills and connections to jumpstart their careers in tech.
October 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Welcome, Cohort 4! 🎉
Through the U.S. NSF Leadership-Class Computing Facility Internship, participants dive into world-class computing resources, mentorship, and hands-on training building the skills and connections to jumpstart their careers in tech.
Through the U.S. NSF Leadership-Class Computing Facility Internship, participants dive into world-class computing resources, mentorship, and hands-on training building the skills and connections to jumpstart their careers in tech.
Meet Cohort 3 of the U.S. National Science Foundation Leadership-Class Computing Facility Internship! Interns trained on world-class computing systems, strengthened workforce skills, and built lasting professional networks. Hear their stories and insights! #NSFfunded
Learn more: bit.ly/43neyAd
Learn more: bit.ly/43neyAd
October 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Meet Cohort 3 of the U.S. National Science Foundation Leadership-Class Computing Facility Internship! Interns trained on world-class computing systems, strengthened workforce skills, and built lasting professional networks. Hear their stories and insights! #NSFfunded
Learn more: bit.ly/43neyAd
Learn more: bit.ly/43neyAd
Upcoming Workshop: Introduction to EPWpy and MATCSSI
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM CST
Register by Nov. 16! bit.ly/47lu4hs
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM CST
Register by Nov. 16! bit.ly/47lu4hs
October 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Upcoming Workshop: Introduction to EPWpy and MATCSSI
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM CST
Register by Nov. 16! bit.ly/47lu4hs
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM CST
Register by Nov. 16! bit.ly/47lu4hs
Congratulations to the Cascadia team of scientists from @utaustin.bsky.social , @ucsandiego.bsky.social, and LLNL, winners of the 2025 MFEM Workshop Visualization Contest!
🌊💡 Learn more: bit.ly/42EE1F9
🌊💡 Learn more: bit.ly/42EE1F9
October 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Congratulations to the Cascadia team of scientists from @utaustin.bsky.social , @ucsandiego.bsky.social, and LLNL, winners of the 2025 MFEM Workshop Visualization Contest!
🌊💡 Learn more: bit.ly/42EE1F9
🌊💡 Learn more: bit.ly/42EE1F9
Nathaniel Mendoza (L) honors Tommy Minyard (R) with the first star on TACC’s “Walk of Fame” at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus. Minyard, a 20-year TACC veteran, led the deployment of numerous supercomputing systems that shaped the center’s success.
October 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Nathaniel Mendoza (L) honors Tommy Minyard (R) with the first star on TACC’s “Walk of Fame” at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus. Minyard, a 20-year TACC veteran, led the deployment of numerous supercomputing systems that shaped the center’s success.
Congratulations to Alondra Castillo, a Mathematics major at Bryn Mawr College, for presenting her research at the Great Minds in STEM Conference on October 3 in San Diego! Alondra explored how hospital capabilities and regionalization impact maternal health outcomes.
Learn more: bit.ly/4mSoDvS
Learn more: bit.ly/4mSoDvS
October 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Congratulations to Alondra Castillo, a Mathematics major at Bryn Mawr College, for presenting her research at the Great Minds in STEM Conference on October 3 in San Diego! Alondra explored how hospital capabilities and regionalization impact maternal health outcomes.
Learn more: bit.ly/4mSoDvS
Learn more: bit.ly/4mSoDvS
Shout out to the UT Center for Electromechanics!
Their Hydrogen ProtoHub shows the full hydrogen ecosystem from generation to fueling, and it’s even powering TACC to support AI and data centers.
Plus, the first-ever hydrogen fuel cell caravan just hit Texas roads! 🚗
Learn more: bit.ly/434PEFh
Their Hydrogen ProtoHub shows the full hydrogen ecosystem from generation to fueling, and it’s even powering TACC to support AI and data centers.
Plus, the first-ever hydrogen fuel cell caravan just hit Texas roads! 🚗
Learn more: bit.ly/434PEFh
A Hydrogen-Powered Road Trip: 365 Miles Across Texas
News, stories, and opinions on science, technology, health, education, business, policy, campus life, and more from The University of Texas at Austin.
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October 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Shout out to the UT Center for Electromechanics!
Their Hydrogen ProtoHub shows the full hydrogen ecosystem from generation to fueling, and it’s even powering TACC to support AI and data centers.
Plus, the first-ever hydrogen fuel cell caravan just hit Texas roads! 🚗
Learn more: bit.ly/434PEFh
Their Hydrogen ProtoHub shows the full hydrogen ecosystem from generation to fueling, and it’s even powering TACC to support AI and data centers.
Plus, the first-ever hydrogen fuel cell caravan just hit Texas roads! 🚗
Learn more: bit.ly/434PEFh
Innovating together! 🌟⚡
Researchers from across Texas met at TACCSTER 2025 to unlock new possibilities with supercomputing and AI. Thanks for coming and see you next year!
Learn more: bit.ly/4n3raUo #PoweringDiscoveries
Researchers from across Texas met at TACCSTER 2025 to unlock new possibilities with supercomputing and AI. Thanks for coming and see you next year!
Learn more: bit.ly/4n3raUo #PoweringDiscoveries
A Bright Future in Texas Computational Science
Texas researchers gather at TACCSTER 2025 to explore advances in supercomputing
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October 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Innovating together! 🌟⚡
Researchers from across Texas met at TACCSTER 2025 to unlock new possibilities with supercomputing and AI. Thanks for coming and see you next year!
Learn more: bit.ly/4n3raUo #PoweringDiscoveries
Researchers from across Texas met at TACCSTER 2025 to unlock new possibilities with supercomputing and AI. Thanks for coming and see you next year!
Learn more: bit.ly/4n3raUo #PoweringDiscoveries
⬇️ There's still time to register! ⬇️
Machine Learning - Deep Learning Training | Fall 2025
October 13–16, 2025 | 9:00 AM–12:00 PM | In-person at TACC
Ready to take your machine learning skills to the next level?
Register by Oct. 12: bit.ly/4mq7YQh
Machine Learning - Deep Learning Training | Fall 2025
October 13–16, 2025 | 9:00 AM–12:00 PM | In-person at TACC
Ready to take your machine learning skills to the next level?
Register by Oct. 12: bit.ly/4mq7YQh
October 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
⬇️ There's still time to register! ⬇️
Machine Learning - Deep Learning Training | Fall 2025
October 13–16, 2025 | 9:00 AM–12:00 PM | In-person at TACC
Ready to take your machine learning skills to the next level?
Register by Oct. 12: bit.ly/4mq7YQh
Machine Learning - Deep Learning Training | Fall 2025
October 13–16, 2025 | 9:00 AM–12:00 PM | In-person at TACC
Ready to take your machine learning skills to the next level?
Register by Oct. 12: bit.ly/4mq7YQh
Big news from Saturn’s icy moon!
New supercomputer simulations from TACC reveal how much ice Enceladus is shooting into space — clues that could help us explore what’s hiding beneath its frozen surface. Could it even support life? 👀✨
Learn more: bit.ly/4mDaliE
New supercomputer simulations from TACC reveal how much ice Enceladus is shooting into space — clues that could help us explore what’s hiding beneath its frozen surface. Could it even support life? 👀✨
Learn more: bit.ly/4mDaliE
Out-of-this-World Ice Geysers
Simulations show Saturn’s moon Enceladus shoots less ice into space than previous estimates
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September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Big news from Saturn’s icy moon!
New supercomputer simulations from TACC reveal how much ice Enceladus is shooting into space — clues that could help us explore what’s hiding beneath its frozen surface. Could it even support life? 👀✨
Learn more: bit.ly/4mDaliE
New supercomputer simulations from TACC reveal how much ice Enceladus is shooting into space — clues that could help us explore what’s hiding beneath its frozen surface. Could it even support life? 👀✨
Learn more: bit.ly/4mDaliE
Reposted by Texas Advanced Computing Center
Exciting news! Introducing AstroVisBench: A Code Benchmark for Scientific Computing and Visualization in Astronomy!
A new benchmark developed by researchers at the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins is testing how well LLMs implement scientific workflows in astronomy and visualize results.
A new benchmark developed by researchers at the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins is testing how well LLMs implement scientific workflows in astronomy and visualize results.
September 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Exciting news! Introducing AstroVisBench: A Code Benchmark for Scientific Computing and Visualization in Astronomy!
A new benchmark developed by researchers at the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins is testing how well LLMs implement scientific workflows in astronomy and visualize results.
A new benchmark developed by researchers at the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins is testing how well LLMs implement scientific workflows in astronomy and visualize results.
TACCSTER 2025 is a wrap!
Congrats to the Paul A. Navrátil Young Researcher Award winners!
(Left) Zheyu Wen for advancing Alzheimer’s research with imaging, modeling, machine learning, and HPC.
(Right) Eugene Park for developing scalable machine learning workflows for force constant computations.
Congrats to the Paul A. Navrátil Young Researcher Award winners!
(Left) Zheyu Wen for advancing Alzheimer’s research with imaging, modeling, machine learning, and HPC.
(Right) Eugene Park for developing scalable machine learning workflows for force constant computations.
September 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
TACCSTER 2025 is a wrap!
Congrats to the Paul A. Navrátil Young Researcher Award winners!
(Left) Zheyu Wen for advancing Alzheimer’s research with imaging, modeling, machine learning, and HPC.
(Right) Eugene Park for developing scalable machine learning workflows for force constant computations.
Congrats to the Paul A. Navrátil Young Researcher Award winners!
(Left) Zheyu Wen for advancing Alzheimer’s research with imaging, modeling, machine learning, and HPC.
(Right) Eugene Park for developing scalable machine learning workflows for force constant computations.
The application period for the U.S. NSF LCCF Internship closes September 28!
“This internship can be the start of a career change, an introduction to the tech industry, and even a boost to your college career.” — Etienne Cuero, Former Intern
➡️ Learn more & apply today: bit.ly/3UWua9c
“This internship can be the start of a career change, an introduction to the tech industry, and even a boost to your college career.” — Etienne Cuero, Former Intern
➡️ Learn more & apply today: bit.ly/3UWua9c
September 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The application period for the U.S. NSF LCCF Internship closes September 28!
“This internship can be the start of a career change, an introduction to the tech industry, and even a boost to your college career.” — Etienne Cuero, Former Intern
➡️ Learn more & apply today: bit.ly/3UWua9c
“This internship can be the start of a career change, an introduction to the tech industry, and even a boost to your college career.” — Etienne Cuero, Former Intern
➡️ Learn more & apply today: bit.ly/3UWua9c
Machine Learning - Deep Learning Training
Oct. 13–16, 2025 | 9:00AM–12:00PM | In-person at TACC
Ready to take your machine learning skills to the next level? Join us for a 4-day immersive training led by TACC’s Data Intensive Computing group.
Register by Oct. 12! bit.ly/4mq7YQh
Oct. 13–16, 2025 | 9:00AM–12:00PM | In-person at TACC
Ready to take your machine learning skills to the next level? Join us for a 4-day immersive training led by TACC’s Data Intensive Computing group.
Register by Oct. 12! bit.ly/4mq7YQh
September 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Machine Learning - Deep Learning Training
Oct. 13–16, 2025 | 9:00AM–12:00PM | In-person at TACC
Ready to take your machine learning skills to the next level? Join us for a 4-day immersive training led by TACC’s Data Intensive Computing group.
Register by Oct. 12! bit.ly/4mq7YQh
Oct. 13–16, 2025 | 9:00AM–12:00PM | In-person at TACC
Ready to take your machine learning skills to the next level? Join us for a 4-day immersive training led by TACC’s Data Intensive Computing group.
Register by Oct. 12! bit.ly/4mq7YQh