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

Ranch Status Monday February 16, 2026

The Ranch system front end disk is currently in Read-Only mode due to a hardware error. We are working with the vendor to resolve the issue as soon as possible. We will update this announcement as soon as the system is fully functional again. Please do not hesitate to reach out via the ticket system if you have any questions.

Authentication Outage Thursday February 19

TACC's production PrivacyIdea (pidea01.tacc.utexas.edu) will be unavailable for maintenance.  This will effectively make all logins unusable from 6:00PM to 8:00PM Thursday, February 19.

Vista Maintenance 12 February 2026

Vista will not be available from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM CST on Thursday, February 12, 2026. System maintenance will be performed during this time. 

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Training & Events

Advanced Nvidia HPC SDK Training

NVIDIA will present a two day training session software for High Performance computing developers to build and optimize applications that run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. We'll cover NVIDIA's HPC SDK, including compilers (C, C++, Fortran), libraries (math, communication), and tools, as well as cover best practices to enable scientists to effectively use NVIDIA software for high performance computing. In addition to the HPC SDK, we'll do a deeper dive on C++ Standard Parallelism, profilers and correctness tools like NSight Systems, NSight Compute, and Compute Sanitizer, as well as a tutorial on NVIDIA's newest GPU Programming model, CuTile.

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TACC Machine Learning Workshop

Join us to explore machine learning! Start with fundamentals, then dive into modern tools, state-of-the-art methods & hands-on exercises.

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TACC Training Basics

A collection of brief step-by-step videos on a variety of training topics.