Supersized Science: Recent Episodes
Texas Advanced Computing Center - University of Texas at Austin
The Supersized Science podcast highlights research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. TACC science writer Jorge Salazar hosts Supersized Science.
Supersized Science is part of the Texas Podcast Network, brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts and not of The University of Texas at Austin.
First-ever biologically authentic computer model completed of the HIV-1 virus liposome.
Supercomputer simulations have revealed for the first time how the cell's mitochondrial voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) binds to the enzyme hexokinase-II (HKII).
Vortex dynamics simulations reveal reconnection, an important property linked with creation of turbulence cascade, fluid mixing, and aerodynamic noise generation.
Kinematic plate reconstructions and high-res global dynamic models developed to quantify the amount of Pacific Plate motion change associated with the Hawaiian– Emperor Bend XSEDE allocations on TACC Stampede2; NSF-funded Frontera supported studies.
NREL scientists discover synergy in PET plastic-degrading enzymes using TACC, SDSC resources
HIV-1 viral capsid simulations on XSEDE-allocated Stampede2, Bridges, Darwin systems uncover nucleotide entry mechanism
Stampede2, Bridges supercomputer simulations show weak spots in Ebola virus nucleocapsid
Computer model simulating binding and fusing dynamics of the coronavirus on Longhorn, a subsystem of the Frontera supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Research supported by the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium.
NSF-funded Frontera supercomputer at TACC used for simulations that animated the molecular dynamics of the 1.7 million atom coronavirus spike protein system.
Scientists prepared a massive computer model of the coronavirus expected to give insight into how it infects. They've tested the first parts of the model and optimizing code on the Frontera supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of UT Austin
Scientists used supercomputers to uncover the mechanism that activates cell mutations found in about 50% of melanomas. XSEDE allocations on TACC's Stampede2 and Bridges at PSC modeled the B-Raf protein and others in the pathway linked to skin cancer.
UT Austin achieves leadership role in high performance computing for science with Frontera system
Stressed materials show asymmetric distributions in simulations on Comet and Jetstream supercomputers through XSEDE allocations
Stampede1, Stampede2, Blue Waters nanopore simulations could help improve medical diagnostics
XSEDE-allocated resources at TACC and PSC, together with other national resources model inositol phosphate interactions with HIV-1 structural proteins
Artificial protein assembly could help create new materials for renewable energy, medicine, water purification, and more.
Mantle plume simulations could help guide future deep Earth exploration and save cost of large-scale ocean-bottom seismometer deployments.
California Yellowtail genome assembly and annotation could potentially help in its sustainable harvest.
Suzanne Pierce of the Texas Advanced Computing Center leads panel on bridging advanced computing with Earth science.
XSEDE systems Stampede1 and Comet help sample protein folding in bone regeneration study.
XSEDE ECSS program helps optimize astrophysics code for Knights Landing processors on Stampede2 supercomputer.
Code@TACC DesignSafe summer STEM camp sharpens civil engineering and computational skills for high school students.
UT Austin President Greg Fenves on Stampede2 supercomputer: "Stampede2 computer will allow us to solve much bigger, much tougher problems."
A look back at the technology, science accomplishments of the Stampede supercomputer at TACC.
Some scientists dream about big data. Computer scientists developed a way for parallel and Hadoop file systems to talk to each other, tailored for NASA with help from the NSF-funded Chameleon cloud testbed.
Human trafficking is being fought with the help of a supercomputer in a Defense Department DARPA project.
Supercomputing focus on exascale architectures, cognitive computing, diversity, and more
Lego-like modularity recommended for architecture, hardware, algorithms, software, applications
First supercomputer in U.S. that uses solar and HVDC launched by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (Japan), NTT FACILITIES, INC., and the University of Texas at Austin.
It takes a supercomputer to grow a better soybean. A project called the Soybean Knowledge Base, or SoyKB for short, wants to do just that. Scientists at the University of Missouri-Columbia made SoyKB a publicly-available web resource for all soybean data.
UT System Chancellor William McRaven spoke of his path to lead the UT System of 14 Institutions, the importance of supercomputers to Texans and to the nation, the new Dell Medical School, and more.
More than 50 volunteer programmers gathered in Austin on May 15 to use Big Data to fight the spread of Zika.
Cornell researcher Roseanna Zia simulates gel behavior with XSEDE, Stampede supercomputer.
Joe Stubbs of the Texas Advanced Computing Center describes potential benefits to scientists of open container platform Docker in supporting reproducibility, NSF-funded Agave API.
UT Austin astronomer Steven Finkelstein eyes Wrangler supercomputer for HETDEX extragalactic survey.
Computer scientist Joshua New of Oak Ridge National Laboratory optimizes buildings to save energy.
UT Austin biologist Rebecca Young traces the genes behind monogamous behavior using Wrangler supercomputer.
NSF-funded Wrangler supercomputer tailored for big data, augments Stampede and other XSEDE resources.
Stampede supercomputer at TACC and IBM Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory help win 'Oscar' of high performance computing at SC15.
One hundred years since Einstein's equations, scientists have probed the mysteries of black holes using the supercomputing resources of XSEDE including Blue Waters, Gordon, Comet and Stampede.
Supercomputing resources of XSEDE including Stampede are making a big difference in helping anticipate and plan for earthquakes.
Alan Alda, founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, gives the keynote presentation at the SC15 supercomputing conference about the urgency for clear and accurate communication in high performance computing.
Robert McLay of TACC co-leads a session at the SC15 supercomputing conference about XALT, a software tool that drills down on supercomputer analytics to the level of individual batch submissions, users, and binaries.
TACC supercomputers model native and replacement heart valve function to evolve human replacements
UT Austin researchers find hotspots of genetic instability in cancer using Stampede and Lonestar
XSEDE Campus Champions, Stampede and Lonestar4 supercomputers of TACC help create 3D images deep underground.
XSEDE resource Stampede supercomputer of TACC simulated molecular dynamics in design of engineered protein.
Matthew Hanlon and Matthew Vaughn of TACC present a SXSW 2015 core conversation that shares their experiences building the Arabidopsis Information Portal and explains how others interested in open data portals can benefit.
John Fonner and Rion Dooley of TACC present a SXSW 2015 workshop that explores new ways big data and computational science are done and that gives hands-on experience to approaching science as a service.
Maytal Dahan of TACC presents a SXSW 2015 meetup that brings together scientists, developers, and researchers to share skills and expertise on the newest web technologies and science projects.
One of life's strongest bonds was discovered by biofuels researchers using XSEDE resources Stampede and Blue Waters supercomputers. This podcast features an interview with computational biologist Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Materials with novel electrical properties discovered using XSEDE computational resources Stampede and Lonestar supercomputers of TACC.
Interview with Thomas Juenger, a faculty member in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin
Interview with Satoshi Matsuoka, professor, Global Scientific Information and Computing Center at the Tokyo Institute of Technology
Interview with Thomas Sterling, executive associate director and chief scientist at the Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies at Indiana University, Bloomington
Interview with Brian Greene, best-selling author and professor of physics, Columbia University
Interview with Keshav Pingali, professor of computer science, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
Interview with Larry Smarr, Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a UC San Diego/UC Irvine partnership
Interview with George Biros, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
Interview clip with Larry Smarr, Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a UC San Diego/UC Irvine partnership
Interview clip with George Biros, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
Interview with Joshua Schraiber, National Science Foundation Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Washington
Interview with computer scientist Thomas Sterling, Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing
Interview with molecular biologists Marvin Whiteley and Keith Turner of the University of Texas at Austin