Texas Advanced Computing Center's latest supercomputer powers transformative discoveries across science and engineering

You hear it before you see it — a roar like a factory in full production. But instead of cars or washing machines, this factory produces scientific knowledge.

Stampede, the newest supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and one of the most advanced scientific research instruments in the world, fills aisle after aisle of a new 11,000-square-foot data center on the J.J. Pickle Research Campus.

Through the glass machine room doors, you can see 182 racks holding more than 500,000 interconnected computer processors. Inside, wind whips from in-row coolers, wires snake over the racks and chilled water courses below the floor as Stampede performs calculations on behalf of scientists and engineers nationwide.

Over the past year TACC staff designed, built and deployed Stampede, working closely with Dell and Intel engineers and university researchers. TACC and The University of Texas at Austin competed against the top supercomputing centers and universities to claim one of the most advanced systems in the world — and won. The award was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), with an estimated investment of more than $50 million over a four-year period. The project may be renewed in 2017, which would enable four additional years of open science research.

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