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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Supercomputing the Secrets Inside Cattle Antibiotics
12/02/2024 Duration: 12minScientists have found the crystal structure and unlocked the mechanism of activity of a family of enzymes that produce monensin, widely used as a cattle antibiotic.
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DNA Origami Folded Into Tiny Motor
19/01/2024 Duration: 16minScientists have created the world's first working nanoscale electomotor. The science team designed a turbine engineered from DNA that is powered by hydrodynamic flow inside a nanopore, a nanometer-sized hole in a membrane of solid-state silicon nitride.
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Cosmic Lights in the Forest
20/12/2023 Duration: 11minACC's Frontera supercomputer helped astronomers develop PRIYA, the largest suite of hydrodynamic simulations yet made of large-scale structure in the universe.
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Scientific Supercomputing and AI
13/11/2023 Duration: 12minSC23 podcast with Dan Stanzione, Executive Director of TACC / Associate Vice President for Research, UT Austin.
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New Twist on Optical Tweezers
31/10/2023 Duration: 11minOptical tweezers use laser light to manipulate small particles. A new method has been advanced using Stampede2 supercomputer simulations that makes optical tweezers safer to use for potential biological applications, such as cancer therapy.
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Hot Jupiter Blows Its Top
05/09/2023 Duration: 12minThe planet HAT-P-32b is losing so much of its atmospheric helium that the trailing gas tails are among the largest structures yet known any planet outside our solar system.
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Deep Learning for New Protein Design
03/08/2023 Duration: 20minDeep learning methods augment existing energy-based physical models in ‘do novo' or from-scratch computational protein design, resulting in a 10-fold increase in success rates verified in the lab for binding a designed protein with its target protein.
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Community Resilience from Earthquakes and Tsunamis
20/06/2023 Duration: 08minSeaside, Oregon is focus of study for community resilience from hazardous earthquakes and tsunamis. Environmental data that included buildings, ground movement, and demographics were collected in work recognized with a 2023 DesignSafe Dataset Award.
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California Flooding from the Arkstorm
06/06/2023 Duration: 11minThe ARkStorm 2.0 simulations build upon a scenario developed in 2010 by the US Geological Survey, where large atmospheric rivers dump extreme quantities of rainfall over California and cause widespread flooding.
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Brain Games Reveal Clues on How the Mind Works
27/04/2023 Duration: 15minDeep learning models developed in task-DyVa framework to generate realistic cognitive response time data.
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New Simulation Reveals Secrets of Exotic Form of Electrons Called Polarons
22/03/2023 Duration: 17minConditions mapped for the first time of polaron characteristics in 2D materials.
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Rare Quasar Triplet Forms Most Massive Object in Universe
13/03/2023 Duration: 10minOrigin of ultra-massive black holes revealed through supercomputer simulations.
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HETDEX Reveals Galaxy Gold Mine in First Large Survey
09/02/2023 Duration: 15minThe Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) announced their first publicly released catalog of astronomical objects.
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New Quasiparticle Discovered In Moiré Patterns
07/11/2022 Duration: 17minNew kind of exciton discovered with novel characteristics in moiré crystal superlattice.
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Nuclear Crossing Guard
12/10/2022 Duration: 13minNew mechanism determined for passive transport of biomolecules through the nuclear pore complex of cells.
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First Stars and Black Holes
11/08/2022 Duration: 20minCosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations used to study gravity hydrodynamics, chemistry and cooling in structure formation and early star formation.
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Deep Learning for New Alloys
20/06/2022 Duration: 13minSupercomputer simulations are helping scientists discover new high-entropy alloys.
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Supercomputer Helps Reveal Weaknesses in HIV-1 ‘Armor'
16/06/2022 Duration: 10minFirst realistic simulations developed of HIV-1 capsid, which encloses its genetic material.
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Cooperation Rewards Water Utilities
19/05/2022 Duration: 13minInter-utility water agreements can help mitigate their risks, in research that used supercomputer simulations of water supply in the North Carolina Research Triangle.
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Devil in the Coronavirus Fusion Details
04/05/2022 Duration: 13minSimulations suggest coronavirus fusion mechanism shows cooperative behavior of host cell receptor proteins that leads to infection. Coarse-grained models took cryo-electron tomography data and combined it with atomistic molecular dynamics simulations.