List of Advanced Scientific Computing Research Leadership Computing Challenge allocations

Year

Title

Principal Investigator

Site

Supercomputer

Allocation (in CPU hours)

2010

A Scalable, Efficient, and Accurate Community Ice Sheet Model (SEACISM)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Katherine Evans

Argonne National Laboratory

1,000,000

2010

A Scalable, Efficient, and Accurate Community Ice Sheet Model (SEACISM)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Katherine Evans

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

5,000,000

2010

Aerodynamics Exploration for Advanced Aero‐Propulsion Technologies

GE Global Research, Jixian Yao

Argonne National Laboratory

4,500,000

2010

Materials Design From First Principles Calculations

Argonne National Laboratory, Larry Curtiss

Argonne National Laboratory

20,000,000

2010

Prototype Ultra High‐Resoluation Climate‐Weather Modeling Studies

NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, S.J. Lin

Argonne National Laboratory

25,000,000

2010

Simulation of Large Conformational Transitions in Macromolecular Systems using Leadership Computing

Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago, Benoit Roux

Argonne National Laboratory

28,500,000

2010

Direct Multiobjective Optimizaton of Storage Ring Lattices for the APS Upgrade and Beyond

Argonne National Laboratory, Michael Borland

Argonne National Laboratory

36,000,000

2010

Nucleon Structure down to the Physical Pion Mass

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John Negele

Argonne National Laboratory

37,800,000

2010

Scalable, Explicit Geometry, Whole Core Nucelar Reactor Simulations

Argonne National Laboratory, Micheal Smith

Argonne National Laboratory

38,000,000

2010

Collaboratory for Very Large Scale Turbulence Simulations on Petascale Computing Platforms

Stanford University, Parviz Moin

Argonne National Laboratory

50,000,000

2010

Improving Light Water Reactor Fuel Reliability Via Flow Induced Vibration Simulations

Argonne National Laboratory, Andrew Siegel

Argonne National Laboratory

75,000,000

2010

Stochastic Nonlinear Data‐Reduction Methods with Detection & Prediction of Critical Rare Events

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Guang Lin

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

5,000,000

2010

ASCR Joule Metric

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Kenny Roche

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

150,000,000

2010

The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Doug Kothe

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

30,000,000

2010

AR‐5 Calculations

National Center for Atmospheric Research, Peter Gent

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

80,000,000

2010

Exascale Computing for Accelerating Deployment of Retrofittable CO2 Capture Technologies via Simulation Tools with Quantified Uncertainty

University of Utah, Philip Smith

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

3,200,000

2010

Large scale particle‐in‐cell simulations of laswer‐plasma interactions relevant to Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE)

University of California, F. S. Tsung

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

3,250,000

2010

First Principles Design of Advanced Thermal Energy Storage Materials

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Su‐Huai Wei

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

5,000,000

2010

A multi‐decadal reforecast data set to improve weather forecasts for renewable + energy applications

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Thomas Hamill

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

14,500,00

2011

Understanding the factors that affect the efficiency of bio-catalytic processes

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pratul Agarwal

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jaguar (supercomputer)

2011

Petascale kinetic plasma simulation of the interaction among laser speckles in laser‐driven inertial fusion energy settings

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Brian Albright

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jaguar (supercomputer)

2011

Reliable Predication of Performance of High Lift Systems of Commercial Aircraft

Boeing, John Bussoletti

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jaguar (supercomputer)

2011

Toward Crystal Engineering from First Principles

University of Texas at Austin, James R. Chelikowsky

2011

Fundamental combustion simulations to enable clean energy breakthroughs in low-carbon gas-turbine combustion systems

Sandia National Laboratories, Jacqueline H. Chen

2011

Projections of Ice Sheet Evolution Using Advanced Ice and Ocean Models

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, William D. Collins

2011

First Principles Calculations of Interfaces in Electrical Energy Storage Systems

Argonne National Laboratory, Larry A. Curtiss

2011

The interactions between vaporizing liquid droplets and a turbulent flow: Fully resolved direct numerical simulation

University of California, Said Elghobashi

2011

Uncertainty Quantification in Large-Scale Ice Sheet Modeling and Simulation

University of Texas, Omar Ghattas

2011

Electrocatalyst Durability from First Principles Calculations

Argonne National Laboratory, Jeffrey Greeley

Argonne National Laboratory

Blue Gene/P

2011

Controlling Nanoparticle Interactions to Engineer New Materials

Sandia National Laboratories, Gary S. Grest

2011

First principles-based design of novel solar thermal fuels

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jeff C. Grossman

2011

High Resolution Design-Cycle CFD Analysis, Supporting CO2 Compression Technology Development

Ramgen Power Systems LLC, A.D. Grosvenor

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jaguar (supercomputer)

2011

Simulating Regional Climate at Convection Permitting Resolution

Greg Holland

2011

Petascale Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Strongly Correlated and Energy Storage Materials

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Paul R. C. Kent

2011

Large-eddy simulation for turbomachinery

United Technologies Research, Gorazd Medic

2011

Prediction of Supersonic Jet Noise Using Large Eddy Simulation

Stanford University, Parviz Moin

2011

Non-icing Surfaces for Cold Climate Wind Turbines

General Electric, Masako Yamada

2011

Sensitivity and uncertainty of precipitation of a climate model

Argonne National Laboratory, Laura Zamboni

2012

Designing Bioinspired Catalysts for Energy Harvesting & Renewable Energy

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pratul Agarwal

5,000,000

2012

Petascale Atomistic Simulations of Ultra Scaled Transistors

Global Foundries, Behtash Behin-Aein

8,000,000

2012

Time Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) Approach to Nuclear Reactions

University of Washington, Aurel Bulgac

12,000,000

2012

Generation of Intrinsic Toroidal Rotation in Tokamak Plasma to enable Stable Fusion Energy Production

Princeton University, Choong-Seock Chang

20,000,000

2012

Projections of Ice Sheet Evolution Using Advanced Ice and Ocean Models

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, William Collins

13,000,000

2012

Protein Folding and Computational Models

Stony Brook University, Ken A. Dill

2,000,000

2012

Impact of the Inlet Boundary Condition on High-Pressure Turbine Temperature Predictions

General Electric, Anne Dord

34,000,000

2012

Liquid-solid interfaces in electrocatalysis from first principles

Argonne National Laboratory, Jeffrey Greeley

20,000,000

2012

Controlling Nanoparticle Assembly to Engineer New Materials

Sandia National Laboratories, Gary Grest

30,000,000

2012

Supercomputer Enabled Accelerated Development of Revolutionary Supersonic Shock Wave Based Turbomachines: Achieving DOE Goals for Compressing Carbon Dioxide and Achieving High Energy Efficiency via High Resolution CFD

Ramgen Power Systems LLC, Allan Grosvenor

40,000,000

2012

Exploring the Nature of the Lightest Massive Particles in the Universe

Argonne National Laboratory, Katrin Heitmann

10,000,000

2012

Gyrokinetic Simulations of Multiscale Electro Turbulence for Improved Predictive Modeling of Tokamak Plasmas

University of California, Christopher Holland

30,000,000

2012

HPC Colony: Adaptive System Software for Improved Resiliency and Performance

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Terry Jones

6,000,000

2012

Computational high throughput screening of organic materials for solar energy and lighting

University of Central Florida, Abdelkader Kara

6,000,000

2012

Transforming Modeling and Simulation for Nuclear Energy Applications

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Douglas Kothe

15,000,000

2012

High level studies of excited states in light harvesting systems and complex emergent phenomena

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Karol Kowalski

5,000,000

2012

Massively Parallel High Fidelity Simulation of Spray Atomization

United Technologies Research, Xiaoyi Li

20,000,000

2012

Gyrokinetic Simulation of Energetic Particle Turbulence and Transport

University of California, Zhihong Lin

20,000,000

2012

Predictive simulations of cuprate high-temperature superconductors

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Thomas Maier

50,000,000

2012

Petascale Thermal Hydraulic Simulations in support of CESAR

Argonne National Laboratory, Elia Merzari

30,000,000

2012

Coupled electronic and nuclear dynamics in solar photocatalytic water splitting

California Institute of Technology, Thomas Miller

22,000,000

2012

Prediction of Multiscale, Multiphysics Turbulent Flow Phenomena Using Unstructured Large Eddy Simulation

Stanford University, Parviz Moin

80,000,000

2012

U.S.-Russia Collaboration on Verification and Validation in Thermal Hydraulics: Nek5000 and Conv3D Simulation of “SIBERIA” Experiment

Argonne National Laboratory, Aleksandr Obabko

30,000,000

2012

Ab Initio Hyper-Nuclear Physics

College of William & Mary, Konstantinos Orginos

70,000,000

2012

Dynamics of conformational transition in thermo-sensitive polymers and hydrogels

Argonne National Laboratory, Subramanian Sankaranarayanan

50,000,000

2012

Validation work for heterogeneous nuclear reactor calculations

Argonne National Laboratory, Micheal Smith

30,000,000

2012

Reducing Uncertainty of Climate Simulations Using the Super-Parameterization

George Mason University, Christiana Stan

11,000,000

2012

VUQ Assessment of a Large Eddy Simulation Tool for Clean-Coal Technology

University of Utah, Jeremy Thornock

20,000,000

2012

Multiscale Modeling of CO2 Sequestration in Carboxysomes

Argonne National Laboratory, Gregory Voth

8,000,000