TACC resources

A major computing resource is the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), managed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) via ACCESS (formerly known as XSEDE)

There is extensive helpful documentation from TACC on each supercomputing machine:

• Stampede documentation

• Lonestar documentation

• Ranch documentation

• Quantum ESPRESSO at TACC

• VASP at TACC

• Gaussian at TACC

To get access to the computing allocations:

• open a TACC (https://accounts.tacc.utexas.edu/register) and ACCESS account (https://identity.access-ci.org/new-user.html)

• (optional) link your TACC account with the UT EID login

• update the group roster (group members only) with your TACC And ACCESS username

• email allocations manager/PI with your username

• once you have access, get familiar with supercomputer policies and documentation

Before running any major calculations, be sure to let the PI know first! This is so we can make sure everyone in the group has access to sufficient computing resources.