DesignSafe & TACC

DesignSafe offers a comprehensive environment for conducting, managing, and analyzing workflows related to natural hazards engineering. It combines interactive tools, data services, and computational resources to support your entire research lifecycle — from model development to large-scale simulations to advanced post-processing.

At its core, DesignSafe is tightly integrated with the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), which supplies the high-performance computing (HPC) systems and large-scale storage required to execute demanding analyses. Most jobs submitted through DesignSafe — whether via the web portal, Jupyter notebooks, or automated pipelines — ultimately run on TACC’s powerful supercomputers like Stampede3, making it possible to carry out simulations that would be unfeasible on local machines.

DesignSafe’s platform is built with flexibility and scalability in mind: whether you are testing small models interactively or deploying large-scale simulations across thousands of cores, the system adapts to your needs.

To make the most of this power, you need to understand how jobs move through the system — from the interfaces you use, to the compute environments where they execute, to the middleware that links the two.