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

TACC Resource Login and Job Submissions

Several TACC resources, including Stampede3, Vista, Lonestar6 and the Analysis Portal are experiencing abnormal behavior when attempting to login or submit jobs to the queues. TACC administrators are working to resolve the issues. Please refer to this announcement for updates. 

Ranch Data Migration Reminder

As initially announced in September 2025, the Ranch hardware upgrade requires all users to manually curate, then move, all data from the old hardware (old ranch) to the new hardware (new ranch).  See the instructions here https://docs.tacc.utexas.edu/hpc/ranch-migration-2025/TACC Staff will be removing the symbolic links to old Ranch effective November 1st, 2026.Ensure your data has been migrated prior to this date.

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Training & Events

From Project Allocation to Job Submission: Your First Steps at TACC

Whether you're just interested in using TACC systems, a new user getting started on TACC systems, or a returning user that simply needs a refresher, this course is for you. This course will cover everything you need to know from obtaining your first allocation to running your jobs on TACC HPC systems.

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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.

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TACC Training Basics

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