Ranch Maintenance July 28 2026
Ranch will be unavailable on Tuesday, July 28 from 9:00 AM (CDT) to 7:00 PM (CDT) for annual maintenance on our Spectra Logic tape libraries.
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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
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.
Create AccountRequest 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.
AllocationsDocumentation
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 DocumentationUser Updates
TAP Maintenance July 14 2026
The system tap.tacc.uexas.edu will be offline July 14th, 2026 from 10:00 AM (CDT) to 11:00 AM (CDT). The service will be unavailable during this time.
Stampede 3 Maintenance July 21st
Stampede 3 will be unavailable from 7:00 AM until 8:00 PM on Tuesday, July 21st in order to perform system maintenance.
Training & Events
TACC Teacher Workshop | Immersive and Interactive Tools for Teaching High School Chemistry
A week-long summer workshop bringing together a cohort of teachers to learn about immersive/interactive technologies used to support concepts related to bonding and reactivity in the classroom.
TACC Institute | Applied Parallel Programming
Spend a week with TACC HPC experts learning how to effectively use supercomputing for research and code development. The course introduces core parallel programming paradigms used in HPC, including CUDA, MPI, OpenMP, and OpenMP offloading, along with essential HPC tools.
TACC Symposium for Texas Researchers (TACCSTER)
A meeting of scientists, engineers, scholars, and students from across the state of Texas who use, and would like to use, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) to advance their research goals.
TACC Training Basics
A collection of brief step-by-step videos on a variety of training topics.