🎉 Big congratulations to TACC Graduate Research Assistant KJ Kaur for earning third place in the ACM SIGCSE Graduate Student Research Competition. Her project explored how research-practice partnerships strengthen teacher capacity.
Way to go, KJ! 👏
Learn more: bit.ly/4s57eDa
TACC's partnership with the National Science Foundation in developing the workforce of the future is all-encompassing and foundational to our work. 🤝
Learn about the different ways we partner with NSF to power discoveries every day at tacc.utexas.edu
#TACC25 #WhatStartsHere #NSFfunded
Photograph from below of trees in the Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Photo credit: Damla Cinoglu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
What if competition for sunlight makes forests stronger? 🌳🌞⚡
Simulations on @taccutexas.bsky.social supercomputers show that canopy light competition boosts tree diversity offering powerful new tools for forest conservation and management.
Learn more: bit.ly/4b6uQR0 @utaustin.bsky.social
A big "thank you" to everyone who attended #STEM Girl Day 2026 at @utaustin.bsky.social! While visiting TACC's Vislab, students and parents drove robot cars using computers and created friendship bracelets using binary code. #UTGirlDay
View the full Girl Day 2026 photo album: bit.ly/3OLvyvG
TACC welcomes our fifth U.S. National Science Foundation Leadership-Class Computing Facility Internship cohort! Participants receive access to cutting-edge computing resources, workplace readiness training, and team-building opportunities. Welcome!
Learn more about the internship: bit.ly/4nzOk5Y
The U.S. NSF Leadership-Class Computing Facility is coming to life at TACC. When its centerpiece system, Horizon, enters production in 2026, it will usher in a new era of discovery powered by unprecedented computing + AI.
📸 Sean Hempel (left) + Dan Stanzione (right) survey progress.
At TACC, we believe every student deserves access to high-quality computer science education. @weteachcs.bsky.social has helped nearly 700 teachers across Texas obtain a CS teaching certification, strengthening the state’s technology workforce. #TACC25 #WhatStartsHere #PoweringDiscoveries #cs4all
Mark your calendars for #STEM Girl Day at @@utaustin.bsky.social! On February 28, students and families can stop by TACC's Vislab to explore how computers work, drive cars using computers, and hear about historical figures who have influenced computer science. #UTGirlDay
Learn more: bit.ly/40r76SG
Calling students! Join a program to help you sharpen HPC skills, connect with experienced mentors, and become part of a research computing community.
PEARC26 Student Program
Dates: July 24–30, 2026
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Cost: Free
Apply today -- deadline March 23: bit.ly/4s9NSNy
TACC is committed to ensuring every school in Texas has access to computer science opportunities. Our ROCS training equipped educators with the curriculum and tools they need to provide hands-on learning in precision agriculture for rural students. #STEM #PoweringDiscoveries
Read: bit.ly/4s4eeAp
Accelerate your research at the TACC Open Hackathon 🚀
Work side-by-side with experts and peers across disciplines to optimize your applications on CPUs and GPUs.
Spots are limited — applications close February 25!
Apply now: bit.ly/46iSfND
What’s happening at the atomic level inside phosphate-based glasses?
Researchers at the University of North Texas are using TACC supercomputers to run large-scale simulations once thought impossible.
Advanced computing isn’t just accelerating discovery — it’s transforming it.
bit.ly/4rtn230
Austin in person event w/ CosmicAI and Texas Science Festival! “AI Among the Stars: How Machines Help Us Explore the Universe”
Feb 25
1-2pm
Peter O'Donnell Building, Avaya Auditorium, Room 2.302 201 E. 24th St sciencefest.utexas.edu/events/exper...
@taccutexas.bsky.social @texasscience.bsky.social
🎉 TACC is 25! From a 50-gigaflop Cray at @utaustin.bsky.social to the U.S. National Science Foundation Leadership-Class Computing Facility, TACC powers discoveries that change the world.
Join us all year for #TACC25! More: tacc.utexas.edu/tacc25/
#NSFfunded #WhatStartsHere #PoweringDiscoveries
Frontera Fellow Sunia Tanweer (2025-2026) has published two preprints powered by computations on TACC’s Frontera supercomputer, the fastest NSF academic supercomputer in the United States. 🎉🚀
Learn more:
Density Estimates: bit.ly/3NVFthK
P-Bifurcations in Stochastic Flutter Model: bit.ly/3NZV2VB
The @utaustin.bsky.social Association of Computational Engineers (ACE) recently toured TACC’s data center for an up-close look at the supercomputers powering discovery at scale.
We had fun hosting your group and can’t wait to see what you’ll build. 💻🚀
Learn more about ACE: bit.ly/4ck1fWx
TACC is pleased to share two upcoming trainings :
🔹 Best Modern CMake Practices & Performance Portability with CMake and Kokkos
📅 February 24–25
🔗 lnkd.in/g6aa4Zye
🔹 Advanced NVIDIA HPC SDK Training
📅 March 4–5
🔗 lnkd.in/gbgzRV78
Registration closes February 20 -- don’t delay!
Did you know North America was once almost ripped apart, geologically speaking? 🌎
Using NSF @accessforci.bsky.social allocations on TACC's Stampede3 supercomputer, researchers identified critical conditions for geological rift failure. Learn more: bit.ly/46rWiqQ #NSFfunded #PoweringDiscoveries
Please join us in welcoming Amy Wiseman to TACC! 🥳
Amy joins our Evaluation Services team as an Evaluation Researcher, where she leads formative and summative evaluations for STEM education projects, research grants, and contracted services. Her work spans several external evaluation projects.
Where Talent Meets Technology: How integrating AI and computation into K-20 programs is shaping tomorrow’s workforce
Learn more: bit.ly/45Y74oT
Our supercomputers are powerful, but our people? That’s what makes TACC extraordinary. 💫
Read about Sophia Massie-Perez, Vlad Krendelev, and Delores Rice in Texascale Magazine: bit.ly/4r4gHtY
Change starts with research. ✨
In 2025, researchers at @utaustin.bsky.social tackled real-world challenges helping improve lives and strengthen communities across Texas and beyond.
We’re proud that TACC plays a role in advancing this research.
Learn more: research.utexas.edu/year-of-impact
TACC helps undergraduate and graduate students master leading technologies like AI through a series of @utaustin.bsky.social courses — preparing them to thrive in a rapidly changing computational landscape. 🧑🎓 💻🤘
Learn more: bit.ly/45jCzt3
Trusted by programs across the country, the TACC Evaluation Services team turns data into insight and insight into impact. We sat down with Lisa Gabrecht to learn how her team advances TACC’s mission through strategic evaluation and research. 📊📈
Learn more: bit.ly/3LCWM6y
Welcoming Taylor Ishisaka and Angela Newell to TACC!
Taylor (L) joins the User Services team, supporting researchers using advanced computing resources.
Angela (R) joins the UT Open Source Program Office, where she’ll lead strategy and engagement for open source software at @utaustin.bsky.social.
As part of the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program, TACC's Jimmy Newland will create curricular tools for NITARP alumni and educators worldwide. He’ll present results at the 2027 American Astronomical Society Winter Meeting in Salt Lake City! #astronomy
Learn about NITARP: bit.ly/4pD8zjf
AI Boot Camp For Astronomers – Registration Open! 🔭🌠🥼
Ready to level up your astronomy research with AI? Join the AI Boot Camp for Astronomers, presented by the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) and TACC.
🗓️ Register by May 1
🔗 Learn more: lnkd.in/gEfnTRHM
Meet Cohort 4 of the U.S. NSF Leadership-Class Computing Facility Internship!
Outstanding interns trained on world-class computing systems, sharpened their workforce skills, and built professional networks that will advance their careers. Hear their stories and insights.
Learn more: bit.ly/45dClUl
TACC is proud to congratulate Stacyann Nelson on receiving the 2025 Joseph A. Johnson Award of Excellence. 🎉
Stacyann was an inaugural participant in the Advanced Computing Student Collaborative in 2016. ACSC is presented by the NSF LCCF at TACC.
Learn more: bit.ly/3NiNZab
@utaustin.bsky.social is #1 in the nation for research funded by the National Science Foundation!
TACC is proud to play a key role as home to the NSF Leadership-Class Computing Facility set to revolutionize computational research nationwide. 🚀💻⚡🤖🌦️
Learn more: utex.as/3Z07gQm
