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2022
August 2022
Top U.S. Academic Supercomputing Community Gathers at 2022 Frontera User Meeting
Frontera users showcase scientific discoveries in cosmology, hypersonic flow, climate change, and more
August 2022
Widest View of Early Universe Hints at Galaxy Among the Earliest Ever Detected
TACC's Frontera, Stampede2 supercomputers enable scientists to combine myriad images, hold frames in memory resulting in single image
June 2022
2022-2023 Frontera Fellows Cohort -- Welcome Aboard!
TACC's Frontera Computational Science Fellowship for 2022-2023 commenced at the start of June. Read about the Fellows' research and what they hope to accomplish during their cohort.
June 2022
2021-2022 Frontera Fellows Cohort - So Long and Good Luck!
TACC's Frontera Computational Science Fellowship for 2021-2022 came to a close at the end of May 2022. Read about the Fellow’s experiences.
May 2022
A Cloudless Future? The Mystery at the Heart of Climate Forecasts
New computational approaches help researchers include cloud physics in global models, addressing long-standing questions
May 2022
Next-generation weather models cross the divide to real-world impact
NOAA Hydrometeorology Testbed uses TACC supercomputers to evaluate latest forecasting tools under realistic conditions
May 2022
First image of the beastly black hole at the heart of our galaxy
Frontera supercomputer supports milestone in astrophysics, computational science
May 2022
Devil in the Coronavirus Fusion Details
TACC's Frontera supercomputer simulations show ‘one-two punch' combo by lung cell receptors
May 2022
21 Scientific Codes Selected for New High-Performance Software Improvement Program
"Characteristic Science Applications" program to improve scientific software, generate benchmarks for Leadership-Class Computing Facility, and demonstrate societal impact of HPC
April 2022
Frontera brings massive computing power to science's toughest challenges
TACC and NSF announce latest cohort of extreme-scale science investigations that will use supercomputer in 2022-2023
March 2022
Planet-scale MRI
High resolution illumination of Earth's interior down to the planet's core with 3D global numerical simulations
March 2022
Hawaiian-Emperor Undersea Mystery Revealed with Supercomputers
Stampede2, Frontera simulations model plate tectonics of bend in seamount chain
February 2022
An AI Assistant for Material Discovery
NIST develops neural network to predict properties of new materials
February 2022
Big Data Imaging Shows Rock’s Big Role in Channeling Earthquakes in Japan
TACC supercomputers help scientists create first complete, 3D visualization of mountain-sized rock buried beneath southern Japan
January 2022
Solving a superconducting mystery with more precise computations
New method from Clemson University researcher, enabled by Frontera supercomputer, helps explain role of phonons in copper-based superconductivity
January 2022
When Water is Coming from All Sides
NOAA, William & Mary researchers team with TACC to develop, test first-ever 3D compound inland-coastal flooding guidance system
2021
December 2021
Co-Evolving Code and Capabilities
Four paths to accelerating science on supercomputers
December 2021
Thriving in Non-Equilibrium
Computational studies of laser-induced non-equilibrium reveal new states of matter
November 2021
Identifying Individual Proteins Using Nanopores and Supercomputers
New proof-of-concept study in Science shows capacity to identify proteins with single-amino acid resolution
September 2021
Texascale Days: Pushing Scientific Software To New Heights
Benchmarking opportunities during Texascale Days tests parallelism up to 450,000 processors
August 2021
Protecting Earth From Space Storms
University of Michigan researchers use Frontera supercomputer to improve space weather forecasting system, avoid worst effects of extreme events
July 2021
Using AI To Predict 3D Printing Processes
University of Illinois engineers use Frontera supercomputer to develop physics-informed neural networks for additive manufacturin
June 2021
Machine Learning Aids Earthquake Risk Prediction
New framework developed by UT Austin engineers applies big data, supercomputing to soil liquefaction
June 2021
Engineers Apply Physics-Informed Machine Learning to Solar Cell Production
Lehigh University researchers use Frontera to simulate photovoltaic fabrication, train AI to optimize energy production
June 2021
Which Way Does the Solar Wind Blow?
Frontera, Anton 2 supercomputers simulate holistic model of SARS-CoV-2 virion
May 2021
Envisioning Safer Cities with AI
Researchers use crowdsourced data, neural networks, and supercomputers to simulate risks to cities and regions
May 2021
New Application of Artificial Intelligence Just Removed One of the Biggest Roadblocks in Astrophysics
Using neural networks and supercomputers, researchers simulated vast, complex universes in a fraction of the time it takes with conventional methods.
April 2021
Targeting Tubors with Nanoworms
University of Connecticut engineer uses supercomputers and AI to improve delivery of nanomedicines for cancer
April 2021
New Discoveries in the Making for 2021-2022
58 projects allocated time on Frontera, the world’s most powerful academic supercomputer
February 2021
Searching for Hints of New Physics in the Subatomic World
Frontera, Anton 2 supercomputers simulate holistic model of SARS-CoV-2 virion
March 2021
Tracking Cosmic Ghosts
Frontera, a community resource for IceCube Neutrino Observatory research, enables the discovery of new high-energy particle
February 2021
First Complete Coronavirus Model Shows Cooperation
Frontera, Anton 2 supercomputers simulate holistic model of SARS-CoV-2 virion
February 2021
TACC Launches Expanded Frontera Supercomputer to Support Urgent Computing
National Science Foundation, Dell Technologies and Intel support extra capacity for emergency responses
February 2021
Frontera Fellows 2020-2021: Maureen Kitheka and Jeane Camelo Share Experiences
Halfway through our 2020-2021 inaugural Frontera Fellowship, we catch up with two of our awardees to talk about their experiences.
February 2021
Texascale Days: December Edition
Seven research teams describe the results of large-scale access to the Frontera supercomputer
January 2021
New Funding to Support Leadership-Class Application Partners
NSF to award up to $150,000 per year to research teams to improve codes, help drive requirements for future HPC systems
January 2021
Simulating 800,000 Years of California Earthquake History to Pinpoint Risk
Supercomputer-powered framework developed by SCEC provides new view of seismic hazard
January 2021
Evolving the Early Universe in 24 Hours on Frontera
UC Riverside Astrophysicist Simeon Bird describes largest ever cosmological simulation
2020
December 2020
Powering Covid-19 Collaborations and Communicating Risks to Public
TACC contributes expertise to leading national epidemiological modeling effort
December 2020
Protein Storytelling to Address the Pandemic
New computational tools developed at Stony Brook University help characterize protein structures and identify new treatments for COVID-19
November 2020
Gordon Bell Special Prize Winning Team Reveals AI Workflow for Molecular Systems in the Era of COVID-19
Research by team at Argonne National Laboratory, UC San Diego leads to novel understanding of SARS-CoV-2; research supported by ORNL's Summit and TACC's Frontera supercomputers
November 2020
Frontera Expansion to Support Urgent Computing
National Science Foundation and Dell Technologies contribute to supercomputer to provide capacity for emergency response
November 2020
Final Dance of Unequal Black Hole Partners
Rochester Institute of Technology scientists perform first-ever simulation of large mass ratio black hole merger on Frontera
October 2020
Frontera on the Front Lines During Record Hurricane Season
UT supercomputers enables emergency storm surge forecasts used by officials in Texas, Louisiana, and beyond
October 2020
Texascale Days at TACC: Labor Day Edition
Eight research teams test their codes at the largest scale on Frontera
September 2020
Galaxy Simulations Could Help Reveal Origins of Milky Way
TACC's Frontera supercomputer aids the search for dark matter in the universe
September 2020
Pulling the Plug on the Coronavirus Copy Machine
Frontera supercomputer helps search for improvements to antiviral drug remdesivir
September 2020
Mysterious Cellular Droplets Come into Focus
University of Illinois biophysicists use Frontera supercomputer to study the formation and behavior of biological condensates
August 2020
Supercomputers create world's most detailed simulations of tornadoes
Frontera helps University of Wisconsin scientist find new features, mechanisms in massive twisters
July 2020
Urgent Computing
From the ongoing peril of climate change, to the pandemic raging around us, advanced computing is helping scientists and researchers combat urgent crises.
July 2020
Re-Engineering Antibodies to Find Relief for COVID-19
Catholic University of America researcher uses in silico analysis to fast-track passive immunity
July 2020
Corona's Ladder
Coronavirus binding and core helix fusion simulated on TACC Frontera subsystem Longhorn
July 2020
New Collection of Stars, Not Born in Our Galaxy, Discovered in Milky Way
Caltech researchers use deep learning and supercomputing to identify Nyx, a product of a long-ago galaxy merger
July 2020
Frontera Quarterly Newsletter
A collection of the top Frontera stories each quarter. Subscribe now.
June 2020
New Pathways and Large-Scale Community Partnerships awards expand Frontera's research impact
26 projects allocated compute time on world's fastest academic supercomputer
June 2020
Sugar Coating Locks and Loads Coronavirus for Infection
Frontera simulations reveal structural role of glycans that cover coronavirus
June 2020
Cracking Open the Proton
Frontera guides development of new instrumentation for future COMPASS++/AMBER experiment at CERN and prepares COMPASS data for final analysis
June 2020
Across the Cell Membrane
UT San Antonio biophysicist helps elucidate mechanisms of neutral solute carriers
May 2020
Meet the Frontera Computational Science Fellows for 2020-2021
Five graduate students to compute on the most powerful academic supercomputer in the world and collaborate with TACC experts
April 2020
Texascale Days Showcases Potential of Frontera for Large-scale Simulation and Modeling
Seven science teams use world's most powerful academic supercomputer to push research to new heights
April 2020
Gold Standard Force Fields Help Identify Promising Peptides to Disrupt COVID-19
University of Utah researchers rapidly generate molecular models of compounds relevant for COVID-19
April 2020
AI Fast-Tracks Drug Discovery to Fight COVID-19
Deep learning paired with drug docking and molecular dynamics simulations identify small molecules to shut down virus
April 2020
Frontera Sets Sights on Transformative Research
National Science Foundation awards compute time on world's most powerful academic supercomputer to 49 projects
March 2020
Coronavirus Massive Simulations Completed on Frontera Supercomputer
New simulations can help researchers design new drugs and vaccines to combat the coronavirus
February 2020
Even The Smallest Problems Need The Biggest Supercomputers
Oden Institute's Feliciano Giustino applies TACC's supercomputing power to the development of novel materials at the quantum scale.
January 2020
Simulations Reveal Galaxy Clusters Details
Galaxy clusters probed with Stampede2, Comet Supercomputers
2019
November 2019
Flu Season is Here — Supercomputers are a New Line of Defense
Supercomputers at UT Austin are tracking drug-resistant viruses on a whole new level and helping researchers stay ahead of infections such as influenza and Zika
October 2019
Monitoring Hurricanes for Better Life-Saving, Property-Preserving Decisions
The Texas Advanced Computing Center is helping top researchers push the boundaries of science to new limits and run complex models for smarter and more informed real-world decisions.
September 2019
Texas Boosts U.S. Science with Fastest Academic Supercomputer in the World
TACC's leadership-class system tops all academic supercomputers, achieves 23.5 PetaFLOPS on Top500 benchmark
June 2019
Frontera Named 5th Fastest Supercomputer in the World
TACC's leadership-class system tops all academic supercomputers, achieves 23.5 PetaFLOPS on Top500 benchmark
January 2019
Computation for the Endless Frontier
TACC wins $60 million award to build the nation's fastest academic supercomputer
2018
August 2018
New Texas Supercomputer to Push the Frontiers of Science
National Science Foundation awards $60 million to the Texas Advanced Computing Center to build nation's fastest academic supercomputer
August 2018
University supercomputers are science's unsung heroes, and Texas will get the fastest yet
Supercomputers are powerful machines with great names—Blue Waters, Bridges, Jetstream, Comet. But a new one will soon be joining that list: Frontera. The $60 million machine will live at the University of Texas at Austin and is scheduled to come online next year.
August 2018
NSF awards $60 million for next-generation supercomputer
Texas Advanced Computing Center to build nation’s most powerful academic high-performance computing system