Supersized Science

Supersized Science features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. Big challenges demand bold solutions. In 2026, U.S. scientists will gain a new powerhouse for discovery: Horizon, the largest open science supercomputer in the nation. Horizon will accelerate basic resear...

Supersized Science features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. In 2025, the online web platform DesignSafe proudly marks its 10th anniversary as the nation’s premier cyberinfrastructure for engineering and social science research on natural hazards. DesignSafe’s comp...

The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. TACC science writer Jorge Salazar hosts the podcast. Decades of research in high performance computing (or HPC) gave rise to today’s supercomputer. And in turn HPC laid the foundation for the...

Scientists and supercomputers generate fast storm surge forecasts in 2024 to help protect lives and property

SC24 podcast with Dan Stanzione, Executive Director of TACC / Associate Vice President for Research, UT Austin

TACC Frontera, Lonestar6 supercomputer simulations reveal topological vortices in polaron quasiparticles

Drastic changes in thermal conductivity of diamonds seen through simulations and machine learning using TACC’s Frontera supercomputer

Stampede2 simulations model transformer hot-spot temperature reductions

Scientists 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.

First nanoscale electromotor created using Frontera, Expanse, Anvil supercomputers

PRIYA supercomputer simulations largest-ever of Lyman-𝛼 forest spectral data, illustrate large-scale structure of universe

SC23 podcast with Dan Stanzione, Executive Director of TACC / Associate Vice President for Research, UT Austin.

Stampede2 supercomputer helps guide laser research for cancer therapeutics

The 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.

AI-augmented pipeline with Frontera yields ten-fold increase in target binding success

Deep learning models of human behavior developed on TACC’s Maverick2

Conditions mapped for the first time of polaron characteristics in 2D materials.

Colossal ASTRID cosmological simulation using TACC's Frontera supercomputer helps probe ultra-massive black hole

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) announced their first publicly released catalog of astronomical objects.

New kind of exciton discovered with novel characteristics in moiré crystal superlattice.

New mechanism determined for passive transport of biomolecules through the nuclear pore complex of cells.

Cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations used to study gravity hydrodynamics, chemistry and cooling in structure formation and early star formation.

Supercomputer simulations are helping scientists discover new high-entropy alloys.

TACC's Frontera system helps reveal the most realistic simulation study of HIV capsid to date

TACC's Stampede2 supercomputer simulates water supply in inter-utility agreement study