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25 years of Powering Discoveries. Home to the U.S. National Science Foundation Leadership-Class Computing Facility. Learn more: tacc.utexas.edu

09/02/2026

TACC is excited to partner with the San Diego Supercomputer Center on the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) NAIRR-OC to build the operational foundation for a sustained national AI research infrastructure. 🎉

“Together with our long-time collaborators at SDSC, we’re excited to help expand access to AI resources for researchers and users across the country and create a coordinated national service that connects the research community and the public with NSF resources. This project builds on and complements TACC’s role in leading the U.S. NSF Leadership-Class Computing Facility, providing the computing and data infrastructure that NAIRR users will need to pursue discovery at scale.” — Dan Stanzione, TACC Executive Director

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4yh8aHY

08/27/2026

The data is out!

Researchers used the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Frontera supercomputer at TACC to run the largest cosmological hydrodynamic simulation yet: ASTRID.

ASTRID traces the evolution of the universe from its earliest moments to today, modeling complex physics, including gravity and hydrodynamics, to explore how black holes and galaxies evolve.

A massive simulation for some of the universe’s biggest questions.

“This is a very demanding process, and only large compute clusters like Frontera can do this,” said PhD student Yihao Zhou of Carnegie Mellon University.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4iwnuvx

08/25/2026

Congratulations to Ellen Rathje on being honored with an International Leader Fellowship from Royal Society Te Apārangi! 🇳🇿 🥳

Through this fellowship, Ellen will collaborate with researchers in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, advancing international research and collaboration in natural hazards.

As principal investigator for the development of DesignSafe, funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure, Ellen has helped build a powerful cyberinfrastructure that has supported more than 10,000 scientists, engineers, students, and researchers over the past decade.

DesignSafe provides computational resources, software, and expertise through TACC that enable researchers to manage, analyze, and share critical data on earthquakes, hurricanes, inland flooding, tornadoes, landslides, and wildfires.

“TACC is a partner that puts the researcher first, and they realize that it’s important to build a bridge to the natural hazards research community. We have an amazing partnership. I credit TACC and its leadership for helping DesignSafe have a successful first decade.” — Ellen Rathje

Learn more about Rathje's award: https://lnkd.in/gm5MVw5V

Learn more about U.S. NSF NHERI DesignSafe: https://lnkd.in/grks3jte

08/20/2026

What an incredible week of computing, AI, and collaboration! The Advanced Computing Student Collaborative (Pacific) was a tremendous success. 🥳

This workforce development initiative brought together 26 undergraduate students from diverse disciplines to develop computational and data analytics skills and apply advanced computing to real-world challenges. The initiative was hosted by Chaminade University of Honolulu, HI and sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) TACC Frontera supercomputer award.

Participants represented colleges and universities across the Pacific and the U.S., representing Guam, Micronesia, American Samoa, Marshall Islands, Hawaiʻi, Alaska, Louisiana , Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, and Texas.

Congratulations to all the participants! We’re already looking forward to doing it again at SC26 in Chicago!

08/13/2026

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the San Diego Supercomputer Center and five partners, including TACC, a major collaboration to build the National Data Platform, a nationwide effort to transform how researchers and educators discover, access, and analyze data.

The goal? Faster, more accessible, and more innovative science across the U.S.

“TACC is proud to partner with SDSC and the broader team, bringing our expertise in Tapis, the Trust Management System, AI and Evaluation Services to the National Data Platform. By combining these capabilities, we are creating a secure, scalable and interoperable foundation that will enable researchers to tackle the next generation of data-intensive, AI-driven science.”

-- Maytal Dahan, Co-P and Director of Advanced Computing Interfaces, TACC

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4bQMauK

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08/11/2026

Yifeng Cui and team are helping prepare the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Leadership-Class Computing Facility Horizon supercomputer to tackle some of the most demanding earthquake simulations ever attempted.

Using Statewide California Earthquake Center - SCEC CyberShake, the team aims to push simulations to 2-hertz and beyond, potentially enabling house-to-house earthquake risk assessments with implications for building codes, insurance, and community resilience.

They’re also planning 5-hertz ShakeOut 2.0 simulations, dynamic rupture modeling, and aftershock simulations for potential magnitude 7 earthquakes in the Los Angeles Basin.

“Breaking this frequency barrier with Horizon will be a game changer.” — Yifeng Cui, San Diego Supercomputer Center High Performance GeoComputing Laboratory and Principal Investigator, Statewide California Earthquake Center - SCEC

Learn more: https://bit.ly/45VCITg

08/10/2026

How can researchers seamlessly access computing, data, and scientific applications across multiple national supercomputing centers?

That’s the vision behind the Interactive Discovery Laboratory (iDLab), a new initiative led by UCLA and supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) award.

TACC is providing and building the software foundation that makes this vision possible:

🔹 Tapis enables workflow automation and orchestration across distributed computing resources.
🔹 Trust Management System (TMS) securely manages identity, access, and trust across institutions making it easier for researchers to work across multiple HPC centers while institutions maintain control of their systems.

Together, Tapis and TMS will help connect resources at TACC, San Diego Supercomputer Center; National Center for Supercomputing Applications - NCSA; Purdue RCAC; and PSC (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center)

“TAPIS provides workflow automation and orchestration, and our new Trust Management System enables the identity and access management essential for multi-site collaboration. Together, these technologies will make it much easier for researchers to focus on their science instead of the complexity of moving between computing environments." -- Joe Stubbs, Co-Principal Investigator and Research Scientist, Advanced Computing Interfaces, TACC

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3SqiTQT

08/07/2026

Approximately 700 teachers, advocates, administrators, professional development providers, university instructors, and policy makers gathered in San Antonio for the 10th annual WeTeach_CS Summit, making it the largest state K-12 computing conference in the country.

Read: https://bit.ly/4z0bFDP

07/30/2026

A record-breaking marine heatwave. One of the worst coral bleaching events ever recorded. Now, researchers are working to understand which corals can survive, and why.

Earlier this year, TACC Research Associate Kelsey Beavers joined scientists from the Minderoo Foundation to capture the Australian reef's brief annual coral spawning event, conduct breeding and heat stress experiments, and collect samples for genomic analyses and cryopreservation.

Using DNA and RNA sequencing, the team is investigating why some corals are more resilient to heat stress than others — insights that could help inform future coral conservation and restoration efforts.

Soon, Beavers will bring TACC's HPC resources into the project, helping analyze complex genomic data at scale. This collaboration will highlight how interdisciplinary science and advanced computing are helping researchers tackle one of the world's most pressing environmental challenges.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4z6Y65F

07/24/2026

TACC is excited to connect with the research computing community at PEARC26 and SEHET26 next week in Minneapolis!

Our team will be contributing throughout the week with:

➡️ Leadership across conference program committees, technical tracks, and paper reviews.
➡️ An accepted SEHET26 paper on building faculty capacity in computational and data science education.
➡️ A full-day tutorial on AI/ML workflows featuring the U.S. NSF ACCESS cyberinfrastructure ecosystem.
➡️ A research poster showcasing new geospatial capabilities in the NSF DesignSafe Science Gateway.
➡️ A research poster featured in the Visualization Showcase.
➡️ Support for the PEARC26 Student Program, where more than 100 students will participate.
➡️ And much more!

You can download the PEARC26 mobile app with the following instructions:

➡️Download the Cvent Events app.
➡️Search for PEARC26.
➡️Sign in using the name and email you used to register.
➡️Enter the verification code sent to your email.

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