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TACC to Provide Local Research Support in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston areas
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has hired local representatives in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston areas to act as facilitators for UTRC resources. Brian Beck, Ph.D. will act as the TACC liaison for the Dallas-Fort Worth area, serving the research communities at UT Southwestern, UT Dallas, UT Arlington, UT Tyler, and UT Health Science Center at Tyler. William (Joe) Allen, Ph.D. will act as the TACC liaison for the Houston area, serving the research communities at MD Anderson Cancer Center, UT Health, and UT Medical Branch.
Beck joined the Life Sciences Group at TACC in the spring of 2015 after developing the Nevada Center for Bioinformatics and working as a Computational Biology professor at Texas Woman's University. Beck earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Washington State University. He uses structural bioinformatics approaches to explore spatial and energetic patterns in protein: protein interactions.
Allen joined TACC’s Life Sciences Computing Group after earning his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Virginia Tech and pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship at Stony Brook University in Computational Biology. His research experience spans a wide range of disciplines, from computer-aided design to wet lab biochemistry, with the central theme of drug discovery and understanding the complex processes that mediate biomolecule interactions.
If you are a researcher interested in working with Beck or Allen, you may contact them respectively at bbeck@tacc.utexas.edu or wallen@tacc.utexas.edu.
2015 Statistics Update
The University of Texas System Research Cyberinfrastructure (UTRC) initiative is intended to foster and encourage research within the 15 UT institutions. Reception of the initiative has been positive and, as a result of a concerted marketing effort launched in late 2013, exposure and usage have further increased. Measures of system usage, such as those contained in the “Dashboard” reports, provide more detailed insight into the myriad of ways in which researchers make use of the offered services. Read More
Website & Blog
| For more information about the UTRC, please visit the website, which functions as a gateway for UTRC users to access common tasks and tutorials. The website contains news articles, FAQ, price comparisons, and other resources for UTRC users. We will soon be debuting use-case examples, which will highlight researchers and projects that rely on UTRC resources. In the future, we hope to expand the offerings on the website based on suggestions we receive from researchers throughout the UT System.
The UTRC website also contains a blog intended as a venue for casual dialogue regarding the UTRC and related projects. Please feel free to send us questions or suggestions that we may feature as blog posts and visit the blog to get involved in the dialogue.
Visit the website: http://www.utsystem.edu/utrc
Visit the blog: http://www.utsystem.edu/utrc/blog
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About UTRC
The UTRC Initiative provides competitive advantages to researchers that surpass those of peer institutions.
UTRC presents superior, comprehensive scientific capabilities that
- enable advances in current and future research efforts across all UT System institutions,
- attract superior faculty and students, and
- attract funding to UT System institutions.
How can UTRC help me?
UTRC provides:
- Advanced Computing offered through Lonestar 4 Supercomputing System, located at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC): Lonestar is one of the most powerful, productive, and comprehensive academic systems in the US. read more
- High-Bandwidth Network Connectivity at 10Gbps between all UT System institutions. read more
- Large Data Storage offered through the Corral Data Services System at TACC. Corral enables long-term data storage, hosting of large scientific data collections for collaborations and communities, and analysis capabilities that span multiple collections. read more
The UTRC is working for you by promoting and facilitating the use of resources by faculty and research teams to expand the scope of research, enable collaborations across institutions, and increase competitiveness for funding.
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