October 2026 • Nsdf-in-media

TACC Joins Effort To Build AI-Driven National Data Science Fabric

Oct 21st, 2026.
TACC News.

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin has joined the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded National Science Data Fabric (NSDF) as a funded partner, helping transform the pilot project into a national-scale cyberinfrastructure and service under NSF’s Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) program.

Principal Investigator Michela Taufer of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK) is leading a team of experts from UTK, University of Utah, Purdue University, TACC, and MLCommons with additional collaborating institutions from academia, national laboratories, and industry.

“We are living through a scientific renaissance driven by data and AI,” Taufer said. “Modern scientific instruments generate enormous amounts of data every second.”

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