TACC Podcasts

Cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations used to study gravity hydrodynamics, chemistry and cooling in structure formation and early star formation.

Supercomputer simulations are helping scientists discover new high-entropy alloys.

First realistic simulations developed of HIV-1 capsid, which encloses its genetic material.

Inter-utility water agreements can help mitigate their risks, in research that used supercomputer simulations of water supply in the North Carolina Research Triangle.

Simulations suggest coronavirus fusion mechanism shows cooperative behavior of host cell receptor proteins that leads to infection. Coarse-grained models took cryo-electron tomography data and combined it with atomistic molecular dynamics simulations.

First-ever biologically authentic computer model completed of the HIV-1 virus liposome.

Supercomputer simulations have revealed for the first time how the cell's mitochondrial voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) binds to the enzyme hexokinase-II (HKII).

Vortex dynamics simulations reveal reconnection, an important property linked with creation of turbulence cascade, fluid mixing, and aerodynamic noise generation.

Kinematic plate reconstructions and high-res global dynamic models developed to quantify the amount of Pacific Plate motion change associated with the Hawaiian– Emperor Bend XSEDE allocations on TACC Stampede2; NSF-funded Frontera supported studies.

NREL scientists discover synergy in PET plastic-degrading enzymes using TACC, SDSC resources

XSEDE-allocated Stampede2 supercomputer simulations shed light on meteor physics

HIV-1 viral capsid simulations on XSEDE-allocated Stampede2, Bridges, Darwin systems uncover nucleotide entry mechanism

Frontera, Anton 2 supercomputers simulate holistic model of SARS-CoV-2 virion

Stampede2, Bridges supercomputer simulations show weak spots in Ebola virus nucleocapsid

Computer model simulating binding and fusing dynamics of the coronavirus on Longhorn, a subsystem of the Frontera supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Research supported by the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium.

NSF-funded Frontera supercomputer at TACC used for simulations that animated the molecular dynamics of the 1.7 million atom coronavirus spike protein system.

Scientists prepared a massive computer model of the coronavirus expected to give insight into how it infects. They've tested the first parts of the model and optimizing code on the Frontera supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of UT Austin

TACC's Stampede2 supercomputer powers path-sampling molecular simulations

Galaxy clusters probed with Stampede2, Comet Supercomputers

Scientists used supercomputers to uncover the mechanism that activates cell mutations found in about 50% of melanomas. XSEDE allocations on TACC's Stampede2 and Bridges at PSC modeled the B-Raf protein and others in the pathway linked to skin cancer.

TACC Podcast interviews Fleming Crim, COO of National Science Foundation

UT Austin achieves leadership role in high performance computing for science with Frontera system

TACC enhances computational reproducibility

XSEDE Allocations On Stampede2 and Comet Speed Simulation of Protein Oligomers

Educating the next generation of supercomputing professionals

Stampede2, Maverick systems at TACC help power visualization of Arctic Ocean data

Stressed materials show asymmetric distributions in simulations on Comet and Jetstream supercomputers through XSEDE allocations

Stampede1, Stampede2, Blue Waters nanopore simulations could help improve medical diagnostics

XSEDE-allocated resources at TACC and PSC, together with other national resources model inositol phosphate interactions with HIV-1 structural proteins

XSEDE allocation on Stampede2 and Comet systems simulate PETase enzyme interactions

Artificial protein assembly could help create new materials for renewable energy, medicine, water purification, and more.

Mantle plume simulations could help guide future deep Earth exploration and save cost of large-scale ocean-bottom seismometer deployments.

California Yellowtail genome assembly and annotation could potentially help in its sustainable harvest.

TACC scientist Antia Lamas-Linares speaks at South by Southwest Conference.

Suzanne Pierce of the Texas Advanced Computing Center leads panel on bridging advanced computing with Earth science.

XSEDE's Maverick helps explore next generation solar cells and LEDs.

XSEDE systems Stampede1 and Comet help sample protein folding in bone regeneration study.

XSEDE ECSS program helps optimize astrophysics code for Knights Landing processors on Stampede2 supercomputer.

Code@TACC DesignSafe summer STEM camp sharpens civil engineering and computational skills for high school students.

UT Austin President Greg Fenves on Stampede2 supercomputer: "Stampede2 computer will allow us to solve much bigger, much tougher problems."

Code@TACC Wearables summer STEM camp covers ‘Internet of Things.'

A look back at the technology, science accomplishments of the Stampede supercomputer at TACC.

A look back at the technology, science accomplishments of the Stampede at TACC.

High School summer STEM camp teaches robotics to underserved Central Texas students.

Some scientists dream about big data. Computer scientists developed a way for parallel and Hadoop file systems to talk to each other, tailored for NASA with help from the NSF-funded Chameleon cloud testbed.

Human trafficking is being fought with the help of a supercomputer in a Defense Department DARPA project.

XSEDE Stampede supercomputer models 3-D human pre-initiation complex

Supercomputing focus on exascale architectures, cognitive computing, diversity, and more

History and strategies of memory bandwidth vs. computation outlined at SC16

Lego-like modularity recommended for architecture, hardware, algorithms, software, applications

XSEDE, SC16, and TACC host week-long event to engage students in computing challenge