Introductions

Instructors:

• Joe Stubbs - Research Associate, Team Lead for the Cloud and Interactive Computing group
• Charlie Dey - Research Engineering Scientist Associate, Training and Education Specialist.
• Greg Zynda - Research Associate, Life Sciences Computing.
• Josue Coronel - Portal Developer, Web and Mobile Applications.
• Cody Hammock - Devops Engineer, Chameleon project technical lead
• Mike Packard - Devops Engineer, Jetstream project technical lead
• Julia Looney - Python Engineer, Cloud and Interactive Computing group

What is the Texas Advanced Computing Center?

A little about us:

• We are a research center at UT Austin
• ~160 Staff, 85% funding from external grants
• We support over 10,000 users on ~2,300 active projects

Mission: “To enable discoveries that advance science and society through the application of advanced computing technologies.”

TACC - More than Just SuperComputing

• High performance computing (HPC)
• Cloud & interactive computing
• Data intensive computing
• Visualization
• Software development & optimization
• Web/Mobile Apps & APIs
• Life sciences
• Training & outreach
• Consulting & professional services

Systems at a Glance