Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) Selects SambaNova AI to Accelerate Scientific Research

TACC deploys SambaNova Suite to host models trained on world-leading supercomputers to integrate AI inference into their research process

Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) Selects SambaNova AI to Accelerate Scientific Research

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AI company offering the most efficient AI chips and fastest models, announces that the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), one of the world’s leading supercomputing centers, is deploying SambaNova Suite to enhance its AI capabilities for scientific research applications. TACC will deploy SambaNova Suite, powered by SambaNova DataScale systems, to provide high performance generative inference services through the innovative Composition of Experts (CoE) framework.

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TACC deploys SambaNova Suite to host models trained on world-leading supercomputers to integrate AI inference into their research process (Graphic: Business Wire)

“This is the next step in the evolution of what our users expect from our computing services,” stated Dan Stanzione, Executive Director at TACC and Associate Vice President for Research at The University of Texas at Austin. “Our mission has always been to provide the full computing ecosystem that scientists want and need. And that is evolving into something more interactive and reliant on AI. We think it could be a fundamental shift in how the scientific community interacts with computing.”

“We operate a heterogeneous computing environment at TACC. SambaNova will be our platform for inference on scientific applications,” Stanzione said. “We will use SambaNova Suite to host the models we’ve trained on traditional supercomputers to integrate AI inference into the science workflow.”

The organization is leveraging SambaNova’s Composition of Experts (CoE) framework, within SambaNova Suite, to enable the use of many AI models at once, both directly from the SambaNova interface and via its API. Eventually, TACC’s platform will host specialized scientific models directly with the ability to conduct inference as part of the research process.

“SambaNova is delivering the highest efficiency for inferencing open-source frontier models at levels of accuracy that are unattainable elsewhere. With our technology deployed, TACC will be able to provide state-of-the-art AI inference services to their users,” said Marshall Choy, SVP of Product at SambaNova Systems. “We’re pleased to announce our partnership with TACC to accelerate their efforts in AI for scientific research.”

TACC is home to Frontera, the most powerful supercomputer running on a university campus in the U.S., and its supercomputers are used every year for thousands of different simulations, modeling, and data analysis projects. It is also home to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF), which will begin operation in 2026. LCCF will form a key plank of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR), an NSF-led initiative coordinated across several federal agencies to accelerate the research and development environment for AI in the U.S.

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