TACC Research
Addressing the most complex problems in science, engineering, and society.
Through collaborations with institutions and domain scientists around the globe, TACC aims to advance scientific discovery, innovation, and education. This evolving list of projects conducted by TACC staff members utilizes the center's advanced computing resources and robust scientific software environment, drawing on their broad expertise in research computing.
| Name | Description | Category | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerating Computing for Emerging Sciences (ACES) | A platform that removes significant bottlenecks in advanced computing by introducing the flexibility to aggregate various components (i.e., processors, accelerators and memory) on an as-needed basis. | Computing & Infrastructure | Experimental Systems, Advanced Computing Research |
| Advanced Computing and Evaluation Laboratory (ACELab) | The ACELab develops and packages open source benchmarks appropriate for the HPC environment. | Computing & Infrastructure | Experimental Systems, Advanced Computing Research |
| Chameleon | The Chameleon testbed is deployed at the University of Chicago (UC) and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and consists of 650 multi-core cloud nodes, 5PB of total disk space, and leverage 100 Gbps connection between the sites. |
Computing & Infrastructure Software, Algorithms & Libraries |
Experimental Systems, Supercomputer Systems, Cyberinfrastructure |
| Corral | Storage and data management resource designed and optimized to support large-scale collections and a collaborative research environment. | Computing & Infrastructure | Storage Systems |
| Frontera | The goal of this project and system is to open up new possibilities in science and engineering by providing computational capability that makes it possible for investigators to tackle much larger and more complex research challenges across a wide spectrum of domains. (Note: reviewer indicates this system will be archiving soon.) | Computing & Infrastructure | Supercomputer Systems, Advanced Computing Research |
| Horizon | The nation's largest academic supercomputer and centerpiece of NSF's new Leadership-Class Computing Facility (NSF LCCF). When it enters production in Spring 2026, Horizon will provide U.S. researchers with unprecedented computing and artificial intelligence capabilities, enabling breakthroughs across physics, climate science, medicine, energy, and beyond. | Computing & Infrastructure | Supercomputer Systems |
| Jetstream | Jetstream is a new type of computational research resource for the national (non-pclassified) research community - a data analysis and computational resource that scientists and engineers use interactively to conduct their research anytime, anywhere. | Computing & Infrastructure | Supercomputer Systems |
| Lonestar6 | Supporting Texas researchers in providing simulation, data analysis, visualization, and AI/machine learning. | Computing & Infrastructure | Supercomputer Systems |
| Ranch | Long-term data archiving environment designed, implemented, and supported to provide storage for data sets of the TACC user community. | Computing & Infrastructure | Storage Systems |
| Stampede3 | The newest strategic resource advancing NSF's supercomputing ecosystem for the nation's open science community. | Computing & Infrastructure | Supercomputer Systems |
| Stockyard | Global file system at the center of TACC's system ecosystem that supports data-driven science by providing online storage of large datasets, and offers migration for further data management and archiving. | Computing & Infrastructure | Storage Systems |
| Vista | AI-focused supercomputer bridging Frontera, the current NSF leadership-class computing system, and the forthcoming Horizon. | Computing & Infrastructure | Supercomputer Systems |
| Bronco | Sony 9M pixel projection system. |
Computing & Infrastructure Visualization & Immersive Technologies |
Visualization Systems |
| Lasso | Multi-user, multi-touch display. |
Computing & Infrastructure Visualization & Immersive Technologies |
Visualization Systems |
| Rattler | Custom-engineered matrix display designed to be reconfigured to allow more freedom to display large data sets. |
Computing & Infrastructure Visualization & Immersive Technologies |
Visualization Systems |
| Stallion | One of the highest resolution tiled-displays in the world, designed to display visualizations with an extremely high level of detail and quality. |
Computing & Infrastructure Visualization & Immersive Technologies |
Visualization Systems |
| Data Management & Collections (DMC) Group | Meeting the needs of faculty and researchers for data collection services, and contributing to the potential of data-driven research to make discoveries. | Data & Repositories | Cyberinfrastructure |
| DesignSafe | Development of curation and publication pipelines and of the preservation and metadata back-end for natural hazards engineering data. Deployment of Fedora-based repository with linked-data support using BlazeGraph for RDF query. Collaboration with Experimental Facilities to automate terabyte-scale data transfers to DesignSafe infrastructure at TACC. |
Computing & Infrastructure Data & Repositories |
Cyberinfrastructure, Open Science, Reproducibility |
| Digital Rocks Portal | Development of web-based portal for storage, management and retrieval of images and related experimental measurements of diverse porous materials. Contributions include development of customized metadata model, analysis backend, search optimization and long-term preservation strategy. | Data & Repositories | Open Science |
| Natural History Collections at TACC | Maintains an array of ongoing collaborations with the Texas Natural Sciences Center. | Data & Repositories | Open Science |
| Memory Error Impact on Deep Learning Training | This project quantifies the impact of silent data corruption on deep learning training. | AI, Machine Learning & Analytics | Advanced Computing Research |
| Scalable and Efficient I/O for Distributed Deep Learning | This project enables scalable and efficient I/O for distributed deep learning training in computer clusters with existing hardware/software stack. | AI, Machine Learning & Analytics | Advanced Computing Research |
| TACC User Portal | A web interface for users to manage their TACC account, projects, and allocations. |
Computing & Infrastructure Scientific Gateways |
Cyberinfrastructure |
| UT System Research Cyberinfrastructure (UTRC) | Superior, comprehensive scientific capabilities that provide research advantages that enable breakthrough results and impact science, attract superior faculty and students, and attract funding to UT System institutions. |
Data & Repositories Scientific Gateways |
Cyberinfrastructure |
| WholeTale | A cyberinfrastructure which captures the "whole tale" of data driven computational research in an easy to use web-based environment. By capturing the input data, processing and analysis steps, and the final data products, the three can be published along with any research publication to allow others to reproduce results or expand upon other's findings directly. | Scientific Gateways | Reproducibility, Open Science |
| Abaco | Abaco (Actor Based Containers) is a functions-as-a-service platform based on Linux container technology and the actor model for concurrent computation. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Cyberinfrastructure |
| amask | The amask tool exposes process masks (affinity) of an application within a parallel environment, so that users can determine the cores/hardware-threads where each process is allowed to run. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Advanced Computing Research |
| Display Cluster | DisplayCluster is a software environment for interactively driving large-scale tiled displays. The software allows users to interactively view media such as high-resolution imagery and video, as well as stream content from remote sources such as laptops / desktops or high-performance remote visualization machines. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Advanced Computing Research |
| HPCPerf Stats | An infrastructure for the low-overhead collection of system-wide performance data that integrates information from a variety of sources. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Cyberinfrastructure |
| Lmod | A Lua based module system that easily handles the MODULEPATH Hierarchical problem. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Cyberinfrastructure |
| Massive Pixel Environment (MPE) | MPE is a library for extending Processing sketches to multi-node tiled displays. This library makes it possible to render interactive Processing sketches across distributed computing systems on many displays. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Advanced Computing Research |
| pylauncher | The pylauncher is a customizable launcher utility that provides base classes and routines that take care of most common tasks. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Cyberinfrastructure |
| Remora | REMORA (REsource MOnitoring for Remote Applications) provides a simple interface to gather important system utilization data while running on HPC systems. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Advanced Computing Research |
| Sanity Tool | Sanity Tool includes a group of generic and machine-specific tests that are used to evaluate the correctness of a user's account configurations. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Cyberinfrastructure |
| Shell Startup Debug | Shell Startup Debug is used to trace the behavior of the startup scripts on your system. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Cyberinfrastructure |
| Showq/Showres/qlimits | The main purpose of this project is to provide convenient tools for HPC users and administrators with easy-to-use SLURM interface or commands. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Cyberinfrastructure |
| SpRay | A distributed-memory speculative ray tracer for out-of-core and in situ rendering. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Advanced Computing Research |
| Tapis | The Tapis Framework provides a hosted, unified web-based API for securely managing computational workloads across institutions so that experts can focus on their research instead of the technology needed to accomplish it. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Cyberinfrastructure |
| Texas Pandemic Flu Toolkit | The Texas Pandemic Flu Toolkit is a collection of tools for forecasting and simulating flu pandemics, as well as optimizing health resources across the state. These tools are made available via a web-based interface, where users can compute new models and interactively visualize results using a variety of methods. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Reproducibility, Open Science |
| The Launcher | The launcher is a framework for running large collections of serial or multi-threaded applications, known as High Throughput Computing (HTC), as a single multi-node parallel job on batch-scheduled High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Cyberinfrastructure |
| Trust Management System (TMS) | Authentication and authorization framework that lets applications securely act on a user's behalf across systems using federated identities, removing manual keys, human-in-the-loop MFA, and shared secrets from automated research workflows. |
Cloud Computing Software, Algorithms & Libraries |
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| XALT | A tool that allows supercomputer support staff to collect and understand job-level information about the libraries and executables that end-users access during their jobs. | Software, Algorithms & Libraries | Advanced Computing Research, Reproducibility |
| Center for Lung Development Imaging and Omics | Create a detailed spatial-temporal molecular atlas of the developing lung in preterm infants to young children. | Life Sciences & Health | |
| CyVerse |
To develop and operate computational resources in support of grand challenges in the life sciences. Support for diverse aspects of the Cyverse data store and Data Commons, a platform for sharing of research data in the life sciences. Contributions include metadata model and minimum requirements, replication strategy for reliable data access, long-term preservation strategy and pipelines, integration with DOI framework for persistent references to data. Hosting and support for petabyte-scale data collections directly and indirectly incorporated into CyVerse. |
Data & Repositories Life Sciences & Health Scientific Gateways |
Open Science, Cyberinfrastructure |
| DrugDiscovery@TACC | Allows researchers to perform drug screening using the Autodock Vina (Scripps) program on the Lonestar5 supercomputer to search more than 700,000 drug-like compounds in only a few hours. |
Computing & Infrastructure Life Sciences & Health |
Advanced Computing Research |
| Individualizing Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth through Digital Phenotyping | Brings together researchers in medicine, computation, visualization and data to deploy passive monitoring to a cohort of 1000 pregnant women in Central Texas via ubiquitous cell phone apps to develop a digital phenotype of pregnancy. | Life Sciences & Health | |
| Neuronex | This NeuroNex Technology Hub for enhanced resolution three-dimensional electron microscopy (3DEM) will enable the discovery of new details in how brain synapses function across different regions and species. | Life Sciences & Health | Advanced Computing Research |