Texas Advanced Computing Center
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The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin, United States, is a research center for advanced computational science, engineering and technology.
TACC provides comprehensive advanced computing resources and support services to researchers in Texas and across the USA. TACC also conducts research and development in applications and algorithms, computing systems design/architecture, and programming tools and environments.
TACC deploys and operates advanced computational infrastructure to enable computational research activities of faculty, staff, and students of UT Austin. TACC also provides consulting, technical documentation, and training to support users of these resources. Through the National Science Foundation (NSF) TeraGrid project, these resources and services are also made available to the national academic research community.
TACC collaborators include researchers in other UT Austin departments and centers, at Texas universities in the High Performance Computing Across Texas Consortium [1], and at other U.S. universities and government laboratories.
TACC research and development activities are supported by several federal programs, including:
- the NSF TeraGrid program
- Computational Chemistry Grid project
- the NSF Information Technology Research program
- the NSF National Middleware Initiative Testbed
- the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Office Programming Environment & Training program
- the Department of Energy Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing program [2]
- the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Information Power Grid program.
In September 2006, the NSF granted TACC a $59 million award to purchase deploy a supercomputer system. The system to be fully deployed in 2007 in a partnership with Sun Microsystems will be based on Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun StorageTek disk and tape storage. It will include over 13,000 AMD quad-core processors and have peak performance of over 400 teraflops, memory of 100 terabytes and disk storage of 17 petabytes. [3]
