Synopsis
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is part of the University of Texas at Austin. TACC designs and operates some of the world's most powerful computing resources. The center's mission is to enable discoveries that advance science and society through the application of advanced computing technologies.
Episodes
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When Data's Deep, Dark Places Need to be Illuminated
07/02/2017 Duration: 23minHuman trafficking is being fought with the help of a supercomputer in a Defense Department DARPA project.
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How to See Living Machines
02/12/2016 Duration: 15minXSEDE Stampede supercomputer models 3-D human pre-initiation complex
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Lori Diachin Highlights Supercomputing Technical Program
02/12/2016 Duration: 11minSupercomputing focus on exascale architectures, cognitive computing, diversity, and more
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John McCalpin Surveys Memory Bandwidth of Supercomputers
02/12/2016 Duration: 24minHistory and strategies of memory bandwidth vs. computation outlined at SC16
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Sadasivan Shankar Proposes Co-design 3.0 for Supercomputing
02/12/2016 Duration: 21minLego-like modularity recommended for architecture, hardware, algorithms, software, applications
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Kelly Gaither Starts Advanced Computing for Social Change
02/12/2016 Duration: 20minXSEDE, SC16, and TACC host week-long event to engage students in computing challenge
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John West Leads Diversity Efforts in Supercomputing
02/12/2016 Duration: 17minSeveral long-term efforts underway at Supercomputing Conference to build up diversity
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New Hikari Supercomputer Starts Solar HVDC
16/09/2016 Duration: 11minFirst supercomputer in U.S. that uses solar and HVDC launched by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (Japan), NTT FACILITIES, INC., and the University of Texas at Austin.
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Soybean science blooms with supercomputers
16/08/2016 Duration: 11minIt takes a supercomputer to grow a better soybean. A project called the Soybean Knowledge Base, or SoyKB for short, wants to do just that. Scientists at the University of Missouri-Columbia made SoyKB a publicly-available web resource for all soybean data.
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Supercomputers Fire Lasers to Shoot Gamma Ray Beam
11/07/2016 Duration: 13minTACC Stampede, Lonestar supercomputers help discover gamma ray creation from lasers
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UT Chancellor William McRaven on TACC supercomputers - "We need to be the best in the world"
14/06/2016 Duration: 06minUT System Chancellor William McRaven spoke of his path to lead the UT System of 14 Institutions, the importance of supercomputers to Texans and to the nation, the new Dell Medical School, and more.
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Zika Hackathon Fights Disease with Big Data
24/05/2016 Duration: 07minMore than 50 volunteer programmers gathered in Austin on May 15 to use Big Data to fight the spread of Zika.
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Sudden Collapse: Supercomputing Spotlight on Gels
03/05/2016 Duration: 11minCornell researcher Roseanna Zia simulates gel behavior with XSEDE, Stampede supercomputer.
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Docker for Science
28/04/2016 Duration: 14minJoe Stubbs of the Texas Advanced Computing Center describes potential benefits to scientists of open container platform Docker in supporting reproducibility, NSF-funded Agave API.
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Dark Energy of a Million Galaxies
01/04/2016 Duration: 12minUT Austin astronomer Steven Finkelstein eyes Wrangler supercomputer for HETDEX extragalactic survey.
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Human Origins in Fossil Data
01/04/2016 Duration: 10minPaleoanthropologist Denne Reed of UT Austin connects fossil data of human origins.
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Supercomputers Save Money, Save Energy
01/04/2016 Duration: 10minComputer scientist Joshua New of Oak Ridge National Laboratory optimizes buildings to save energy.
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Evolution of Monogamy
01/04/2016 Duration: 08minUT Austin biologist Rebecca Young traces the genes behind monogamous behavior using Wrangler supercomputer.
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Wrangler Supercomputer Speeds through Big Data
04/12/2015 Duration: 15minNSF-funded Wrangler supercomputer tailored for big data, augments Stampede and other XSEDE resources.
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SC15: ACM Gordon Bell Prize Winners Supercompute Deep Earth
24/11/2015 Duration: 24minStampede supercomputer at TACC and IBM Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory help win 'Oscar' of high performance computing at SC15.