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Supersized Science
by 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.
Episodes
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Hurricane Simulations in High Gear
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) of the University of Texas at Austin. Supersized Science is hosted by Jorge Salazar, a science writer at TACC. The 2024...
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New Heights: The U.S. NSF Leadership-Class Computing Facility and Horizon
Something big is coming for science—the largest by far academic supercomputer in the U.S., called Horizon, as part of the U.S. National Science Foundation Leadership-Class Computing Facility (NSF LCCF), a project awarded to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). In July 2024, the NSF…
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Surprising Vortex Behind New Solar Cell and Lighting Materials
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. Materials called metal-halide perovskites have quickly advanced in the last decade since...
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Diamond Heat
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. Diamond is the hardest material found in nature — diamond also has the highest thermal...
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Cooler Transformers Could Help the Electric Grid
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. Electric transformers convert high voltage to lower voltage that’s useful for households…
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Supercomputing the Secrets Inside Cattle Antibiotics
The Supersized Science podcast features 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 the podcast. Chemists have determined for the…
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DNA Origami Folded Into Tiny Motor
The Supersized Science podcast features 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 the podcast. Scientists have created the world’s...
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Cosmic Lights in the Forest
The Supersized Science podcast features 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 the podcast. Optical tweezers manipulate tiny...
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Scientific Supercomputing and AI
The Supersized Science podcast features 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 a special podcast for the supercomputing…
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New Twist on Optical Tweezers
The Supersized Science podcast features 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 the podcast. Optical tweezers manipulate tiny...
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Hot Jupiter Blows Its Top
The Supersized Science podcast features 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 the podcast. A planet about 950 light years from...
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Deep Learning for New Protein Design
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. The key to understanding proteins — such as those that govern cancer, COVID-19, and other...
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Community Resilience from Earthquakes and Tsunamis
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. Science writer Jorge Salazar of TACC hosts the podcast. A dataset on seismic and tsunami...
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California Flooding from the Arkstorm
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. A dataset on "plausible worst-case scenario" flooding in California has received a 2023...
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Brain Games Reveal Clues on How the Mind Works
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. Jorge Salazar, a science writer at TACC, hosts the podcast. Scientists are using TACC’s...
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New Simulation Reveals Secrets of Exotic Form of Electrons Called Polarons
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. Jorge Salazar, a science writer at TACC, hosts the podcast. A new leaf has turned in...
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Rare Quasar Triplet Forms Most Massive Object in Universe
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. Jorge Salazar, a science writer at TACC, hosts the podcast. Ultra-massive black holes are...
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HETDEX Reveals Galaxy Gold Mine in First Large Survey
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. Jorge Salazar, a science writer at TACC, hosts the podcast. If you hold one wire mesh on...
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New Quasiparticle Discovered In Moiré Patterns
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. Jorge Salazar, a science writer at TACC, hosts the podcast. If you hold one wire mesh on...
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Nuclear Crossing Guard
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. Jorge Salazar, a science writer at TACC, hosts the podcast. A new mechanism has been...
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First Stars and Black Holes
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. Jorge Salazar, a science writer at TACC, hosts the podcast. Just milliseconds after the...
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Deep Learning for New Alloys
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. Jorge Salazar, a science writer at TACC, hosts the podcast. When is something more than...
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Supercomputer Helps Reveal Weaknesses in HIV-1 ‘Armor'
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. Jorge Salazar, a science writer at TACC, hosts the podcast. Much remains to be discovered...
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Cooperation Rewards Water Utilities
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. Podcast host Jorge Salazar is a science writer at TACC. Mark Twain is attributed with the...
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Devil in the Coronavirus Fusion Details
The Supersized Science podcast features research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. The host is Jorge Salazar, a science writer at TACC. The details of how the SARS-CoV-2...
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Pioneering Simulations Focus On HIV-1 Virus
Sometimes a container isn’t just a container, not when it comes to the deadly HIV-1 virus The HIV-1 virus is wrapped in a double layer of fatty molecules called lipids that not only serves as its container but also plays a key role in HIV-1’s replication and infectivity. Scientists have used...
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Cell's Energy Secrets Revealed With Supercomputers
It takes two to tango, as the saying goes. This is especially true for scientists studying what’s inside of a cell. Protein molecules inside a cell interact with other proteins, and in a sense the proteins dance with a partner to respond to signals and regulate each other's activities. Crucial to...
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Into the Vortex
Scientists are looking deeper into the mysterious characteristics of vortexes and turbulence, in recent studies by Texas Tech University scientists that used the Frontera, Stampede2, and Lonestar5 supercomputers here at TACC, allocated through the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery...
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Hawaiian Emperor Undersea Mystery Revealed With Supercomputers
The Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain spans almost four thousand miles from the Hawaiian Islands to the Detroit Seamount in the north Pacific, an L- shaped chain that goes west then abruptly north. The 60-degree bend in the line of mostly undersea mountains and volcanic islands has puzzled…
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Supercomputers Help Reveal Dynamic Plastic-Eating Duo
Plastic waste is a big problem in the environment. About 300 million tons of plastic waste are produced every year, according to the United Nations. Much of that is polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a plastic in single-use bottles, carpets, and clamshell packaging. In the U.S., the Environmental...
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What Happens When A Meteor Hits The Atmosphere?
The Supersized Science podcast hosted by science writer Jorge Salazar features research and discoveries enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise of the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. High above your head right now, it's raining dirt. Day or...
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Getting To The Core Of HIV Replication
Viruses lurk in the grey area between the living and the nonliving, according to scientists. Like living things, they replicate but they don't do it on their own. Viruses needs a host cell. And through infection, they hijack it and force it to make copies of itself. Supercomputer simulations have...
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Complete Coronavirus Model
The COVID-19 virus holds some mysteries. Scientists remain in the dark on details of its behavior such as how it fuses and enters the host cell; how it assembles itself; and how it buds off the host cell to spread infection. Computational modeling combined with experimental data can provide...
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Targeting the Deadly Coils of Ebola
In the midst of a global pandemic with COVID-19, it’s hard to appreciate how lucky those outside of Africa have been to avoid the deadly Ebola virus disease. It incapacitates its victims soon after infection with massive vomiting or diarrhea, leading to death from fluid loss in about 50 percent…
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Corona's Ladder
The coronavirus infects its host cell by first binding one of its spike proteins and then fusing its helical core to the host cell. The virus makes its own molecular version of the mythical Jacob’s Ladder that reaches for the heavens. It builds a far-reaching ladder-like apparatus from core…
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Sugar Coating Locks And Loads Coronavirus For Infection
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. But the human immune system does just that when it comes to finding and attacking harmful microbes such as the coronavirus. It relies on being able to recognize foreign intruders and generate antibodies to destroy them. Unfortunately, the coronavirus...
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Coronavirus Massive Simulations Completed on Frontera Supercomputer
Scientists are preparing a massive computer model of the coronavirus that they expect will give insight into how it infects in the body. They’ve taken the first steps, testing the first parts of the model and optimizing code on the Frontera supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of…
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Supercomputers Drive Ion Transport Research
For scientists, natural systems can try one’s patience. For a long time, nothing. Then all of a sudden, something. Wonderful things in nature can burst on the scene after long periods of dullness - rare events such as protein folding, chemical reactions, or even the seeding of clouds. Path…
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Simulations Reveal Galaxy Clusters Details
The spacefaring Romulans of Star Trek science fiction have inspired some astrophysicists to develop cosmological simulations called RomulusC, where the ‘C’ stands for galaxy cluster. With a focus on black hole physics, RomulusC has produced some of the finest resolution simulations ever of galaxy...
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Skin Cancer Mystery Revealed in Yin and Yang Protein
Scientists are using powerful supercomputers to uncover the mechanism that activates cell mutations found in about 50 percent of melanomas, the most serious type of human skin cancer because it can spread throughout the body. The scientists say they’re hopeful their study can help lead to a…
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Frontera Helps the Science That Transforms Society
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) celebrated the official launch of its newest supercomputing system, Frontera, funded by a $60 million award from the National Science Foundation. Frontera aims to help scientists with the cyberinfrastructure resources to tackle some of the biggest…
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UT Austin President Greg Fenves On The Frontera Supercomputer
The University of Texas at Austin has claimed a leadership role in supercomputing with the top academic system in the world, Frontera, located at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). The National Science Foundation awarded TACC $60 million for building and operating Frontera, the fifth...
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Science On Repeat - Computational Reproducibility
Trust, but verify. The well-known proverb speaks to the heart of the scientific method, which builds on the results of others but requires that data be collected in a way that can be repeated with the same results. Beyond just recreating the conditions of a physical experiment, the computational...
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Supercomputers Help Supercharge Protein Assembly
Using supercomputers, scientists are just starting to design proteins that self-assemble to combine and resemble life-giving molecules like hemoglobin. Hemoglobin molecules in red blood cells transport oxygen by changing their shape. Four copies of the same protein in hemoglobin open and close…
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Closing the Workforce Gap
This podcast is part of our inaugural yearly magazine called Texascale, available at www.tacc.utexas.edu/texascale. Host Jorge Salazar interviews Charlie Dey, Director of Training and Professional Development at TACC. Dey outlined the the TACC Institutes, which work to educate the next generation...
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Award-Winning Visualization Dives Into Arctic Ocean
Change is in the air, and water, of the Arctic Ocean. Scientists are keeping an eye out on shrinking sea ice, five million square miles of floating ice surrounding the North Pole. It bounces sunlight back to space, which keeps polar regions cool and helps moderate global climate. An award-winning...
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A New Way to See Stress — Using Supercomputers
It’s easy to take a lot for granted. Scientists do this when they study stress, the force per unit area on an object. Scientists handle stress mathematically by assuming it to have symmetry. That means the components of stress are identical if you transform the stressed object with something like…
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Simulations Show New Phenomenon with Nanopore DNA Sequencing
Any truck operator knows that hydraulics do the heavy lifting. Water does the work because it’s nearly incompressible at normal scales. But things behave strangely in nanotechnology, the control of materials at the scale of atoms and molecules. Using supercomputers, scientists found a surprising...
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A New 'Frontera' For Science Discoveries
The National Science Foundation announced on August 29, 2018 an award of 60 million dollars to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at UT Austin for the acquisition and deployment of a new supercomputer that will be the fastest at any U.S. university and among the most powerful in the…
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Supercomputers Help Design Mutant Enzyme That Eats Plastic Bottles
Scientists have used supercomputers to engineer an enzyme that breaks down plastic. It’s called polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, and it’s used to make things like carpets and bottles for soda and water. This plastic pollutes the soil and the oceans. The scientists say it’s a first step toward...
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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.
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