Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) at The University of Texas at Austin and the McDonald Observatory has released a major new database of early-forming galaxies and the cosmic web between them, expanding opportunities for discovery by researchers, students, citizen scientists, and AI-driven astronomy tools.

"We have relied heavily on TACC systems to store, process, and analyze HETDEX spectrographic data, including Lonestar6, Stampede2 and Stampede3, Wrangler, and Maverick. We are incredibly thankful to TACC for these resources." — Erin Mentuch Cooper, HETDEX Data Manager

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4uMJPZ1

Last week, TACC hosted the inaugural Information-Integrated Decision Support Institute, a hands-on program led by the Decision Support Office’s interdisciplinary research team.

Participants worked through the full decision support pipeline—from problem framing and data integration to modeling, analysis, and real-world deployment.

Thank you to the Texas Water Development Board for their support through the SUBSIDE project, grounding this work in real-world challenges across Texas coastal and groundwater systems. We’re also grateful to contributors from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), The University of Texas at Arlington, and The University of Texas at Austin, who brought expertise in hydrology, climate science, remote sensing, and decision science.

Building smarter, data-integrated solutions to complex challenges takes a community.

April showers bring May TACC hires.

James Labyer (left) joins the Life Sciences Computing group as a Research Software Engineer. He will support advanced application‑driven computing on TACC systems and contribute technical expertise to project development and ex*****on.

Jixian Li (right) joins the Scalable Computational Intelligence group as a Research Associate. He will train, evaluate performance, and run inference on AI and ML models using TACC systems.

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Jobs at TACC:https://tacc.utexas.edu/about/jobs/