Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

The TACC team, collaborators, and friends celebrated the new U.S. NSF Leadership-Class Computing Facility at SC24 and much more! Dan Stanzione and Thomas Sterling were honored as HPC Legends based on their contributions to the community over the past 35 years. The NSF Advanced Computing for Social Change program offered opportunities for participants to engage in data visualization and data analysis training using TACC’s Frontera supercomputer to explore social challenges. TACC staff led and participated in workshops and panels covering a wide variety of topics. View highlights! https://bit.ly/3VFzLSd

Groundbreaking research supported by TACC's Lonestar6 and #NSFfunded Frontera supercomputers on polarons, quasiparticles found in titanium dioxide with potential to lower the cost of solar fuel cell production. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3OSkytc  National Science Foundation (NSF) Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences College of Natural Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin PNAS

TACC's Frontera supercomputer helps cancer researchers investigate improvement of beam-matched linear accelerators used in radiation therapy through testing the feasibility of a 3D gamma index, which can provide an extra layer of safety for treatment of transferred patients. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3ZJqyKZ

Scientists made strides in mapping the genetic landscape of autism spectrum disorder, using TACC's Stampede2 and Corral systems for storage and analysis of exome data, which codes for proteins in the genome. The work continues on Stampede3. Learn more:  https://lnkd.in/ge7PrXQW. UT Southwestern Medical Center

TACC's Lonestar6 supercomputer helped engineers at The University of Texas at Dallas perform direct numerical simulations of turbulent wave ripples common on the ocean floor, which impact coastal sand and nutrient transport. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3OHpAsg

As you prepare for the holiday break, don’t forget to submit your application to the Frontera Fellowship! Fellows receive a $34,000 stipend and up to $12,000 in tuition allowance throughout the year. Apply by February 7. Interested? Mark your calendars for a December 5 Frontera Fellowship Q&A session hosted from 3-4 p.m. Central Time via Zoom. Ph.D. candidate and current Fellow Ayodeji Omoniyi studies Chemical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. For Omoniyi's research, Frontera offers a great blend of ease of use and speed. Zoom Q&A: https://bit.ly/49p9YDC Learn more about the Fellowship: https://buff.ly/3GSzyBE

2021-2022 Frontera Fellow Gurpreet Singh Hora recently had a paper published in AIP Publishing! In "Physics of Fluids," Singh Hora introduces a physics-informed variational autoencoder model that reconstructs realizable three-dimensional turbulent velocity fields from two-dimensional planar measurements. He thanks TACC's Fellowship for its support! Learn more: https://bit.ly/41bdeQD

Kudos to James Carson, TACC Life Sciences Computing Directorate, on his funding to develop computational models that help identify cancer biomarkers in MRI data. The work joins five other projects recognized by MD Anderson Cancer Center, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, and TACC that will use our systems for cancer research. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4i9obYY.

As part of The University of Texas at Austin's Year of AI initiative, TACC's Carol Fletcher participated in "The Education Revolution," a panel featuring experts discussing ways teachers and students are harnessing AI and the challenges these emergent technologies present. Fletcher stressed that both technological advances and caring, inspiring teachers are needed to prepare Texas students for the jobs of tomorrow. Learn more: https://bit.ly/416vdYK