TACC Research Archive

List of archived research projects still available for access.

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Name Description Category Tags
Accelerated 3D Reconstruction and Visualization of Compressible Flow This project aims to create efficient shadowgraph and Schlieren visualizations of simulated airflow leveraging commodity hardware and open-source rendering platforms. Visualization & Immersive Technologies Advanced Computing Research
Building Research Innovation at Community Colleges (BRICCs) Examines the research and educational needs from advanced cyberinfrastructure in two-year colleges and smaller institutions of higher education. Scientific Gateways Cyberinfrastructure
Catapult An open research system to investigate the use of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) as data center accelerators to improve performance, reduce power consumption, and open new research avenues of investigation. Computing & Infrastructure Experimental Systems, Decommissioned Systems
Discovery Discovery is a testbed for benchmarking and testing hardware. TACC uses it to experiment and evaluate new technologies. Computing & Infrastructure Experimental Systems, Decommissioned Systems
Domain Information & Vocabulary Extraction (DIVE) This project aims to develop new methods and tools to extract biological entities from publication and other text documents. Life Sciences & Health Advanced Computing Research
Economic, Environmental and Agricultural Impacts in the Texas-Mexico Border Region This project will create coupled fuel, electricity, water, and air models for Texas and eastern Mexico to a develop quantitative understanding of the implications of increased natural gas usage in the Texas-Mexico border region. Life Sciences & Health  
Experimental Data Architectures Simplifying data management for administrators and researchers while reducing the overall cost of next-generation storage systems. AI, Machine Learning & Analytics Advanced Computing Research
Fabric Fabric is an experimental system combining IBM's latest Power 8 processors with NVIDIA GPUs, and FPGAs from Altera and Xilinx, for researchers exploring alternate computer architectures. Computing & Infrastructure Experimental Systems, Decommissioned Systems
Flame Iterative Derives Krylov methods in the FLAME framework to show how FLAME can simplify the process of deriving iterative methods, and make a case that a Flame-based environment for deriving new iterative methods is a distinct, and attractive, possibility. Software, Algorithms & Libraries Advanced Computing Research
GraviT Two-pronged approach: GraviT will replace the OpenGL pathways commonly used for visualization with a high-performance, open-source ray tracing engine that can interactively render on both a CPU and on accelerator architectures; GraviT will provide a direct interface to a high-performance distributed ray tracing engine. Software, Algorithms & Libraries Advanced Computing Research
ICAT ICAT assists users in modifying, compiling, and optimally running their applications on HPC platforms equipped with the Intel Knights Landing (KNL) processors. Software, Algorithms & Libraries Advanced Computing Research
idev Idev creates an Interactive DEVelopment environment on a compute node from the user's login window. Software, Algorithms & Libraries Cyberinfrastructure
Learning to Use Essential Tools This project aims to research and development of a dynamic, reconfigurable tool to bridge users and remote computing resources to facilitate educational tools for data science. With this tool, curriculums and educational materials on essential tools for data science will be developed and disseminated. Cloud Computing  
Longhorn Designed for GPU-accelerated workloads. Computing & Infrastructure Decommissioned Systems
Maverick2 GPU-accelerated for machine learning and deep learning workloads. Computing & Infrastructure Decommissioned Systems
Scalable Deep Learning on Supercomputers This project enables deep learning training on supercomputer scale without losing test accuracy. AI, Machine Learning & Analytics Advanced Computing Research
Sculpting Visualizations This project investigates making visual analysis of data more effectively by using time-tested methods of visual artists to investigate, reframe and generally make sense of their world. Imagine if data-intensive computing could be a more innately human and creative process, like sculpting (visual, tangible, active, physical). Visualization & Immersive Technologies Advanced Computing Research
SODA (Scalable Object and Analysis) This project aims to develop new methods to processes video data collected from traffic monitoring cameras to support traffic analyses including traffic counts and vehicle-pedestrian interactions. Computing & Infrastructure Advanced Computing Research
Software Defined Visualization This project develops a dynamic ray scheduling algorithm that effectively manages both ray state and data accesses. Visualization & Immersive Technologies Advanced Computing Research
SouthWest Expertise in Expanding, Training, Education and Research (SWEETER) A web-portal and shared cyberinfrastructure that will help remove resource barriers faced by community colleges and smaller institutions. Scientific Gateways Cyberinfrastructure
Sparse Direct Factorizations through Unassembled HyperMatrices A novel strategy for sparse direct factorizations that is geared towards the matrices that arise from hp adaptive Finite Element Methods. Software, Algorithms & Libraries Advanced Computing Research
Stampede2 Stampede 2 offers a powerful new system that builds on the success of Stampede and will continue to enable groundbreaking science. Computing & Infrastructure Decommissioned Systems
Stardust To reduce the overall cost of the visual analysis of large-scale simulation and observational data by replacing brute-force techniques with data sampling based on the actual requirements and capabilities of the user. Visualization & Immersive Technologies Advanced Computing Research
Student Cluster Competition A real-time, 48-hour race between teams of undergraduate or high-school students to build and deploy small cluster computers on the exhibit floor at the annual SC conference. Scientific Gateways Experimental Systems