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The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility enables breakthroughs in science and engineering by providing supercomputing resources and expertise to the research community.
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Projects

ALCF projects cover many scientific disciplines, ranging from biology and physics to materials science and energy technologies. Filter ongoing and past projects by allocation program, scientific domain, and year.

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours Polaris: 50,000 node-hours
PI Michael Zingale, Stony Brook University

Exascale Models of Astrophysical Thermonuclear Explosions

Award INCITE
Domain Energy Technologies
Hours Polaris: 200,000 node-hours
PI Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, University of Michigan

Foundation Models for Crystals

Award INCITE
Domain Computer Science
Hours Polaris: 150,000 node-hours; Aurora: 770,000 node-hours
PI Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago

AuroraGPT: A Large-Scale Foundation Model for Advancing Science

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours Polaris: 150,000 node-hours
PI Carlo Scalo, Purdue University

Hypersonic Transition Control via Porous and Wavy Walls at High Reynolds Numbers

Award INCITE
Domain Biological Sciences
Hours Polaris: 150,000 node-hours; Aurora: 1,600,000 node-hours
PI Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Laboratory

Foundation Models for Predictive Molecular Epidemiology

Award INCITE
Domain Materials Science
Hours Aurora: 825,000 node-hours
PI Aiichiro Nakano, University of Southern California

AI-Guided Exascale Simulations of Quantum Materials Manufacturing and Control

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours Aurora: 375,000 node-hours
PI Kenneth Jansen, University of Colorado Boulder

Online Machine Learning for Large Scale Turbulent Simulations

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours Aurora: 100,000 node-hours
PI Sudershan Gangrade, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A Climate-Informed, Large-Scale, and High-Resolution Inundation Modeling Framework

Award INCITE
Domain Materials Science
Hours Polaris: 20,000 node-hours
PI Tim Frolov, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Advancing Fusion Reactor Materials Through Exascale Simulations

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours Aurora: 400,000 node-hours
PI Zoltan Fodor, Pennsylvania State University

QCD under Extreme Conditions

Award INCITE
Domain Biological Sciences
Hours Aurora: 250,000 node-hours
PI Nicola Ferrier, Argonne National Laboratory

ExaCortex: Exascale Reconstruction of Human Cerebral Cortex

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours Aurora: 600,000 node-hours
PI Yong Zhao, Argonne National Laboratory

3D Imaging of Strong Interaction Nambu-Goldstone Bosons

Award INCITE
Domain Chemistry
Hours Polaris: 200,000 node-hours
PI Darrin York, Rutgers University

High-Throughput Lead Optimization with Amber

Award INCITE
Domain Materials Science
Hours Polaris: 150,000 node-hours
PI Chris Wolverton, Northwestern University

High-Throughput Calculation of Materials Properties at Finite Temperature

Award INCITE
Domain Materials Science
Hours Aurora: 760,000 node-hours
PI Lucas Wagner, University of Illinois

QMC-HAMM: High-Accuracy Multiscale Models Using Quantum Monte Carlo

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours Polaris: 100,000 node-hours; Aurora: 1,000,000 node-hours
PI James Stone, Institute for Advanced Studies

Radiation-Dominated Black Hole Accretion

Award INCITE
Domain Biological Sciences
Hours Polaris: 200,000 node-hours
PI Marcos Sotomayor, University of Chicago

Large-Scale Simulations of Inner-Ear Mechanotransduction Complexes

Award INCITE
Domain Computer Science
Hours Aurora: 300,000 node-hours
PI Ruslan Shaydulin, JPMorgan Chase

Experimental Realization of Certified Randomness from Quantum Supremacy

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours Polaris: 50,000 node-hours; Aurora: 750,000
PI Janet Scheel, Occidental College

Exascale Simulations of Rayleigh-Benard Convection

Award INCITE
Domain Biological Sciences
Hours Aurora: 200,000 node-hours
PI Amanda Randles, Duke University

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