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Enabling Discoveries That Advance Science and Society Through Advanced Computing Technologies

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) designs and operates some of the world's most powerful computing resources.

Getting Started
Tour in TACC's Machine Room

Create an Account

Fill out the account request form on the TACC Account Management Portal and it will be reviewed by our User Services team.

Faculty, professional research staff, and postdoctoral researchers may request Principle Investigator (PI) eligibility for their account. PIs are responsible for requesting system allocations and managing their team.

Graduate and undergraduate students can create an account, but must be added to allocations by PIs to use the systems.

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Request an Allocation

To access a system, you must request through an allocation opportunity.

Browse the System List, Allocations, and Software List to help determine what system and allocation fits your research.

If you are a PI, log into your account and request an allocation on the system that fits your research needs.

Allocations

System Status

Documentation

TACC's documentation provides a detailed and comprehensive resource for our high-performance computing systems. Find information on hardware, software, tutorials, and best practices. Discover how TACC can help advance your research and computational goals.

TACC Documentation

User Updates

Vista Maintenance Tuesday 18 March 2025

Vista will not be available from 07:00 AM to 08:00 PM (CST) on Tuesday, 18 March 2025.  System maintenance will be performed during this time.Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User Portal: https://tacc.utexas.edu/portal/tickets

Ranch Status 21 February 2025

A short maintenance outage on Ranch will start at 3:30 PM CST and will take about two hours. Please refer to this update for future announcements on any developments as we work to restore the filesystem.Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User Portal: https://tacc.utexas.edu/portal/tickets

/work Filesystem Status Thursday 13

The /work filesystem, which is mounted across all machines, is currently experiencing instability. Users may see slow or interrupted I/O during jobs. In particular, any users who are dependent on the /work filesystem for their conda settings are likely to be impacted. It is recommended to review your workflows, especially on the login nodes, to reduce dependence on /work temporarily. Admins are continuing to investigate the issue, and an update will be posted when the problem is resolved. 

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