TACC Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/tacc/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:49:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg TACC Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/tacc/ 32 32 86113652 TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/#comments Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:38:12 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144647 The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin is the flagship datacenter for supercomputing for the US National Science Foundation, and so what TACC does – and doesn’t do – is a kind of bellwether for academic supercomputing. …

TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/feed/ 3 144647 With Vista, TACC Now Has Three Paths To Its Future Horizon Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/29/with-vista-tacc-now-has-three-paths-to-its-future-horizon-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/29/with-vista-tacc-now-has-three-paths-to-its-future-horizon-supercomputer/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:44:34 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143556 The national supercomputing centers in the United States, Europe, and China are not only rich enough to build very powerful machines, but they are rich enough, thanks to their national governments, to underwrite and support multiple and somewhat incompatible architectures to hedge their bets and mitigate their risk. …

With Vista, TACC Now Has Three Paths To Its Future Horizon Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/29/with-vista-tacc-now-has-three-paths-to-its-future-horizon-supercomputer/feed/ 0 143556 Putting TACC’s “Stampede3” Through The HBM Paces https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/12/putting-taccs-stampede3-through-the-hbm-paces/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/12/putting-taccs-stampede3-through-the-hbm-paces/#comments Sun, 12 Nov 2023 19:39:49 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143270 When you host the workhorse supercomputers of the National Science Foundation, you strive to provide the best possible solutions for your scientists. …

Putting TACC’s “Stampede3” Through The HBM Paces was written by Ken Strandberg at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/12/putting-taccs-stampede3-through-the-hbm-paces/feed/ 1 143270 Stampede3: A Smaller HPC System That Will Get More Work Done https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/24/stampede3-a-smaller-hpc-system-that-will-get-more-work-done/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/24/stampede3-a-smaller-hpc-system-that-will-get-more-work-done/#comments Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:21:23 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142689 All of the major HPC centers of the world, whether they are funded by straight science or nuclear weapons management, have enough need and enough money to have two classes of supercomputers. …

Stampede3: A Smaller HPC System That Will Get More Work Done was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/24/stampede3-a-smaller-hpc-system-that-will-get-more-work-done/feed/ 4 142689 Putting Composability Through The Paces On HPC Systems https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/04/01/putting-composability-through-the-paces-on-hpc-systems/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/04/01/putting-composability-through-the-paces-on-hpc-systems/#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2022 14:20:20 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140367 With HPC and AI workloads only getting larger and demanding more compute power and bandwidth capabilities, system architects are trying to map out the best ways to feed the beast as they ponder future systems. …

Putting Composability Through The Paces On HPC Systems was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/04/01/putting-composability-through-the-paces-on-hpc-systems/feed/ 0 140367 The Microcosm Of Global HPC In The Lone Star State https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/11/03/the-microcosm-of-global-hpc-in-the-lone-star-state/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/11/03/the-microcosm-of-global-hpc-in-the-lone-star-state/#respond Wed, 03 Nov 2021 19:18:07 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=139550 The HPC community spends a lot of time tracking the development of and production use of the flagship machines deployed by the major national and academic labs of the world. …

The Microcosm Of Global HPC In The Lone Star State was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/11/03/the-microcosm-of-global-hpc-in-the-lone-star-state/feed/ 0 139550 Leveraging Fat Nodes To Get Around I/O Bottlenecks https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/08/bioteam-leverages-tacc-fat-nodes-to-get-around-i-o-bottlenecks/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/08/bioteam-leverages-tacc-fat-nodes-to-get-around-i-o-bottlenecks/#respond Tue, 09 Feb 2021 03:20:40 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137855 BioTeam, the famous HPC consulting practice, is using the quad-socket large memory nodes at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to speed alignment and HMM (Hidden Markov Model) inference workflows to find biological “synonyms” in biological databases like GenBank. …

Leveraging Fat Nodes To Get Around I/O Bottlenecks was written by Rob Farber at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/08/bioteam-leverages-tacc-fat-nodes-to-get-around-i-o-bottlenecks/feed/ 0 137855 Attacking The Novel Coronavirus With Supercomputing Cycles https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/06/09/attacking-the-novel-coronavirus-with-supercomputing-cycles/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/06/09/attacking-the-novel-coronavirus-with-supercomputing-cycles/#respond Tue, 09 Jun 2020 14:00:18 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=136595 Dan Stanzione has a lot of compute power at his fingertips. …

Attacking The Novel Coronavirus With Supercomputing Cycles was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/06/09/attacking-the-novel-coronavirus-with-supercomputing-cycles/feed/ 0 136595 Exploring The Frontiers of Chemistry With HPC https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/12/10/exploring-the-frontiers-of-chemistry-with-hpc/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/12/10/exploring-the-frontiers-of-chemistry-with-hpc/#respond Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:27:47 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=38886 The husband and wife team of Abdurrahman and Tülay Ateşin are experimental scientists who unexpectedly became involved with supercomputers when they moved to Texas in 2013. …

Exploring The Frontiers of Chemistry With HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/12/10/exploring-the-frontiers-of-chemistry-with-hpc/feed/ 0 38886 Bringing Researchers to the Frontier of FPGA Development https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/10/29/bringing-researchers-to-the-frontier-of-fpga-development/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/10/29/bringing-researchers-to-the-frontier-of-fpga-development/#respond Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:12:35 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=38631 There are two key barriers to fully exploring the emerging use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) at the scale found in data centers: capital investment for private equipment, and gaining full, unfettered access to shared equipment. …

Bringing Researchers to the Frontier of FPGA Development was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

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