HPC
If NSF Snoozes, Then TACC’s “Horizon” Supercomputer Loses
It is a tumultuous time for any agency in the US government or any company or organization that depends on the US government for a sizable portion of its funding or revenue. …
Horizon
HPC
TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer
The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin is the flagship datacenter for supercomputing for the US National Science Foundation, and so what TACC does – and doesn’t do – is a kind of bellwether for academic supercomputing. …
HPC
With Vista, TACC Now Has Three Paths To Its Future Horizon Supercomputer
The national supercomputing centers in the United States, Europe, and China are not only rich enough to build very powerful machines, but they are rich enough, thanks to their national governments, to underwrite and support multiple and somewhat incompatible architectures to hedge their bets and mitigate their risk. …