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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/
🎉 Happy Birthday, Grace Hopper!🎉
At the core of TACC's Vista supercomputer is NVIDIA technology designed to push the boundaries of HPC. Vista pairs NVIDIA Grace CPUs with NVIDIA Hopper GPUs, an architecture built for the most demanding AI and scientific workloads.
The NSF-Simons Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences is advancing AI for astronomy. 🔭 ✨🚀 To power this work, the team is leveraging TACC supercomputers.
Learn more in TACC's Texascale Magazine!
bit.ly/4a2pesm
TACC's Dan Stanzione joined Happy Sithole of South Africa’s National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System (NICIS) on stage at the CHPC 2025 Conference this week in Cape Town!
Learn more about this year’s event: events.chpc.ac.za/event/155/
TACC is partnering with educators to help bring future-ready skills into classrooms. Teach CS with confidence! @weteachcs.bsky.social
➡️ Cyber: bit.ly/3Y2Oibh
➡️ Middle School AI: bit.ly/4ryylr1
➡️ High School AI: bit.ly/4pgQcRP
➡️ Quantum: bit.ly/4aspMI0
➡️ Secondary Certification: bit.ly/4pMPlrU
🎉 Join us in welcoming @thenerdygeek.bsky.social to TACC! 🎉
"Sofia is a true force in computer science education, bringing more than 25 years of leadership and innovation to the field." — Allen Antoine, TACC Director of CS Education Strategy
Welcome aboard!⭐
Horizon, the largest U.S. open science supercomputer arriving in 2026, is being designed around the Characteristic Science Applications program: 11 cutting-edge software projects tackling the scientific challenges that will define the facility’s future. 🧪 🔬 🔭 💻
Explore the vision: bit.ly/4r0P8Tb
Twenty-five undergraduates from across the U.S. joined the Advanced Computing for Student Collaborative program at #SC25. They explored public datasets, analyzed data on TACC’s Stampede3 supercomputer, and built compelling visualizations. 🌟
Learn more: bit.ly/4pBJHJ6
The 8th annual Texascale Magazine is here! 🎉 This edition highlights how TACC is driving the future of scientific discovery. Read the full stories and browse the amazing imagery at texascale.org/2025!
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What an amazing week at #SC25! Thank you to the colleagues, partners, and new connections who made it memorable. Looking forward to reconnecting at #SC26 in Chicago! 👍
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Huge kudos to TACC’s Nathaniel Mendoza and the 200-person SCinet team for building and running the world’s most powerful temporary network at #SC25 — an engineering feat every year. 💻🤝
Learn more: www.stlmag.com/.../sc25-st-...
Congratulations to the 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize winners for their research on a digital twin for real-time tsunami early warning!
The work used supercomputing resources including El Capitan at LLNL and Frontera at TACC. The prize was awarded at #SC25 in St. Louis.
Learn more: bit.ly/3Kd7gsw
TACC is thrilled to be recognized with two HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards at #SC25 in St. Louis!
🏆 Best Use of HPC in Financial Services
🏆 Best Use of HPC in Physical Sciences
We’re proud to support research communities pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. 🌍💡Learn more: bit.ly/48q239V
It's the final day of #SC25! Check out where we’ll be. And don’t forget to visit us at Booth #704! 👏
🔹 Art of HPC Exhibit | Plaza Lobby
🔹 Advanced Computing Student Collaborative Final Presentations | 8:30am-12:00pm, 173AB
🔹 Inside TACC Vista and Its Communication Libraries | 10:30am, OSU Booth
CBS KEYE’s Walt Maciborski shines a spotlight on the groundbreaking work happening in Central Texas. Watch the full segment to learn how the U.S. NSF LCCF Horizon supercomputer will accelerate discovery: bit.ly/43ztNX6
#NSF-funded #PoweringDiscoveries
Thank you, Volker!
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Academic supercomputer champion Frontera of the @taccutexas.bsky.social at @utaustin.bsky.social goes six years as the top US university system, according to the Nov. 2025 Top500 rankings! top500.org #NSFfunded #SC25
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Installation has officially begun on Horizon, which will be the nation’s largest academic supercomputer, marking a major milestone for the U.S. NSF Leadership-Class Computing Facility at TACC. 🚀🔬🪐
Learn more: bit.ly/4oEoDBs
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
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!
🥕🖥️ 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...
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! 🎉
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...
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
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
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
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
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Shaping the Future of Computational Science:
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
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.
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
