# Texas Advanced Computing Center **Domain:** Austin Research / Institutions **Doc Type:** Research entity **Source basis:** Supplied research cluster with linked references; see the [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|evidence map]] for verification scope. The **Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)** supplies high-performance computation, storage, visualization, and research cyberinfrastructure at UT Austin. Its institutional development is closely connected to Oden’s computational-science lineage: Oden’s history identifies a 1999 computing proposal as a precursor to TACC’s creation in 2001. In the Austin cluster, TACC is the runtime for computationally demanding inference. [[wiki/PECOS|PECOS]] uses large-scale computing for predictive simulations; Meyers’ group used TACC in research whose forecasting methods entered [[wiki/Defense Threat Reduction Agency|DTRA]]’s [[wiki/Biosurveillance Ecosystem|Biosurveillance Ecosystem]]. The documented transfer concerns those methods and their research computation, rather than an assumption that all BSVE operations ran at TACC. [[wiki/Horizon|Horizon]] extends the hardware lineage beyond Frontera toward large scientific and AI workloads. More compute can support ensembles, repeated inverse solutions, uncertainty propagation, learned surrogate models, and persistent twin updates. Hardware capacity does not by itself establish model accuracy or real-time performance for a particular application. The succession reading concerns the material conditions for persistent computational process: energy, cooling, memory, storage, networks, and usable scientific software. TACC’s relationship to Oden connects mathematical demand to the infrastructure that makes more ambitious representations executable. ## Connected entries [[wiki/Oden Institute|Oden Institute]] · [[wiki/Horizon|Horizon]] · [[wiki/PECOS|PECOS]] · [[wiki/Lauren Ancel Meyers|Lauren Ancel Meyers]] · [[wiki/Biosurveillance Ecosystem|Biosurveillance Ecosystem]] · [[wiki/Computational Metabolism|Computational Metabolism]] · [[wiki/J. J. Pickle Research Campus|J. J. Pickle Research Campus]] · [[wiki/Center for Generative AI|Center for Generative AI]] · [[wiki/ACES Building|ACES Building]] · [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Center for Computational Medicine|Center for Computational Medicine]] · [[wiki/J. Tinsley Oden|J. Tinsley Oden]] · [[wiki/Omar Ghattas|Omar Ghattas]] ## Sources and corpus context - [[research/The Austin Executable Loop|The Austin Executable Loop — master document]] - [[research/Oden Institute - The Austin Succession Stack|Oden Institute - The Austin Succession Stack]] - [[research/UT Austin - The University Affiliated Research Center and ACES|UT Austin - The University Affiliated Research Center and ACES]] - [Predictive Science Research Gets Major Boost Thanks to the Department of Energy](https://news.utexas.edu/2020/10/05/predictive-science-research-gets-major-boost-thanks-to-the-department-of-energy/) - [Horizon System Documentation — Texas Advanced Computing Center](https://docs.tacc.utexas.edu/hpc/horizon/system/) - [Opening the Future of Science — Horizon at TACC](https://tacc.utexas.edu/news/latest-news/2026/07/07/opening-the-future-of-science/) - [Flu Season Forecasts Could Be More Accurate with Access to Health Care Companies’ Data](https://news.utexas.edu/2018/09/19/this-data-source-could-enable-better-flu-forecasts/) - [A Powerful Vision — The Synergistic Relationship of High-Performance Computing and the Oden Institute](https://oden.utexas.edu/news-and-events/news/TACC-high-performance-computing-and-the-Oden-Institute/) **Cluster:** [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|Austin Research Evidence Map]]