Upcoming Event: Oden Institute Seminar

What’s going on in High Performance computing?

Dan Stanzione, Associate Vice President For Research and Executive Director, TACC, UT Austin

Abstract

Dr. Stanzione will give a brief update on new capabilities and plans at TACC for the NSF Leadership Facility and the National AI Research Resource, then cover some of the main challenges in HPC research and the HPC industry, from power and sustainability to the shifts in architecture towards lower precision, changes in programming model, etc.  

A discussion of the various TACC resources, both computational and personnel, available to UT faculty, staff, and students, and how to access them, will be included.

Biography

Dr. Dan Stanzione is a nationally recognized leader in the field of high performance computing who has made an impact in the open science community for more than 30 years.

He is Executive Director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), one of the leading advanced academic computing centers in the world and holds the position of Associate Vice President for Research at The University of Texas at Austin.

Stanzione serves as the principal investigator (PI) for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Leadership Class Computing Facility (LCCF), which started construction in July 2024 and is expected to begin operations in 2026. The LCCF will deploy Horizon, which will be the largest academic supercomputer dedicated to open science research in the NSF portfolio.

Stanzione is also the PI for several current NSF-funded supercomputers including Frontera, the fastest supercomputer at a U.S. university, and Vista, an AI-centric system—all dedicated to open science research.

Stanzione received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and his master's degree and doctorate in computer engineering from Clemson University.