1、An Update on the NSF Leadership Class Computing Facility:TACC and HPC in the AI worldDan StanzioneExecutive Director,TACCAssociate Vice President for Research,UT-AustinFebruary,20262This being TexasThe new TACC datacenter means UT-Austin is in 5 Congressional Districts,despite spanning less than 20
2、miles.TACC is in three districts!(7 if you count the coastal facility and the observatory)Before We Talk About TACC5/13/20262AirportPickleDowntownNew TACC DatacenterMain CampusWhat is TACC?We are the UT and UT System Research Computing FacilityWe are also the largest NSF-funded national computing ce
3、nter for open science(As well as NIST,NASA,NIH,DARPA,DOD,etc.)*Research*ComputingHigh Performance/SupercomputingAI Analytics/Big Data200+Dedicated staffAltogether,20k servers,1M CPU cores,1k GPUsAbout seven billion core hours over several million jobs per year for 3,000 projects and 40,000 users per
4、 year.5/13/20263While we are a national provider,we have*by far*the most computing resources of any University in the country(and often the world)in speed,diversity,support,real science capability,etc.No one will catch us in the 2020s(without an investment in the hundreds of millions).Who uses TACC?
5、At UT,about 70%of NSF grant recipients,and 50%of NIH grant recipients,are TACC Users.Around the country,users doing unclassified research at more than 400 institutions use TACC on over 3,000 projects for year.Including a number of startups;large industry use us more for tech pathfinding.Since its in
6、ception in 2001,TACC has had well over 120k users 100k+of which are students.30k use the resources in any given year.TACC users have 4 Nobel prizes,many Gordon Bell prizes,and countless“first of its kind”computational achievements.Access to TACC is provided through a variety of programs:NSF ACCESS a