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

Planned Tapis Maintenance October 2026

We will be performing a TAPIS maintenance on Tuesday, October 20 from 8:00AM to 10:00 AM (CDT) to upgrade our infrastructure and underlying software. During this time we do not anticipate any disruption of service, however there is a possibility some services, such as Jupyter, will be unavailable for brief periods of time.These updates are essential to ensure the continued reliability and security of our software. We understand that your time is valuable and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.Please reach out here if you have any questions or concerns regarding this timeline. Thank you!

Stampede 3 Emergency Maintenance 14 October

Stampede 3 will be performing an emergency maintenance beginning at 12:00PM to 5:00PM (CDT) on Wednesday October 14th to work on the SPR queue at the scheduled time to perform an emergency rollback of the OPA-400 firmware. This should restore overall fabric stability when running on the SPRs.During the maintenance, the rest of the queues will stay up, and any non-SPR jobs will continue running.Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User Portalhttps://tacc.utexas.edu/portal/tickets

Lonestar6 Emergency Maintenance 22 September

Lonestar6 will be performing an emergency maintenance beginning at 9:00AM (CDT) on Tuesday September 22nd. Queues will be offline for approximately 2-4 hours for system maintenance.Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User Portalhttps://tacc.utexas.edu/portal/tickets

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Training & Events

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TACC Training Basics

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