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TACC’s Supercomputers Power AI-driven Research Uncovering Rapid Genomic Shifts in Human Evolution

The mystery of how we became human still drives scientific inquiry, especially among researchers probing the ancient genetic shifts that gave rise to our complex brains, capacity for language, ...Full Article

Protecting the Bountiful Forest of Science, Technology, and HPC

Anyone who has worked at the leading edge will tell you they did not get there alone. Indeed, the breakthroughs that fit in our pocket or speed us down ...Full Article

TACC’s Vista: AI-Focused Supercomputer in Production for Open Science Community

Sept. 4, 2024 -- The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas today announced that Vista, a new artificial intelligence (AI)-centric system, is in full production for ...Full Article

OpenFold Advances Protein Modeling with AI and Supercomputing Power

Proteins, life’s building blocks, perform a wide range of functions based on their unique shapes. The molecules fold into specific forms and shapes that define their roles, from catalyzing ...Full Article

NSF Announces $457 Million Leadership-Class Computing Facility at UT Austin

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a major investment to build a new Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF) facility at The University of Texas at Austin. The project is ...Full Article

Chemical Discovery for Industry, Medical with Carnegie Mellon’s Neural Network Tool

For industrial and medical companies, a central question in modern chemistry is how to identify and synthesize molecules to create useful applications. Even with high performance computing, the research ...Full Article

‘Run Anywhere’ Enterprise Analytics and HPC Converge at TACC

Advances in storage, processor, and cloud technology have made run-anywhere big data analytics available to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) as well as Fortune 1000 companies. Run-anywhere means ...Full Article

NASA Teams up with TACC to Simulate Space Junk

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/NASALDEF.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="62" border="0" />While debris might seem innocuous enough to those grounded on Earth, even pebble-sized junk in orbit poses a serious problem that ...Full Article