Case Study: Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) achieves record-setting Frontera supercomputer performance to accelerate scientific discovery with Dell Technologies

Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) - Customer Case Study

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin needed a next‑generation supercomputer to give researchers nationwide access to leading-edge HPC and AI resources for ever‑larger, more complex problems. To meet that challenge, TACC partnered with Dell Technologies, deploying Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 servers alongside Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory to provide high‑density, large‑memory compute nodes.

Dell Technologies supplied the primary compute system for Frontera—more than 8,000 two‑socket nodes (over 16,000 Intel Xeon processors and 448,448 cores) delivering a peak 38.7 petaFLOPS and funded in part by a $60 million NSF award. The Dell Technologies‑built Frontera debuted as the nation’s fastest academic supercomputer and the world’s fifth most powerful, enabling researchers to tackle bigger, harder computational problems and accelerate discoveries in areas from climate modeling to particle physics.

Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

Dan Stanzione

Executive Director