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.

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Domain Physics
Hours Aurora: 100,000 node-hours
PI Zhihong Lin, University of California, Irvine

Exascale Simulation and Deep Learning Model for Energetic Particles in Burning Plasmas

This project will develop the challenging capability for prediction and real-time control of energetic particle (EP) confinement in burning plasmas by combining the state-of-the-art exascale first-principles GTC simulation and the prominent experimentally validated AI/Deep Learning FRNN software

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

Exascale Models of Astrophysical Thermonuclear Explosions

Zingale INCITE 2024

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

Foundation Models for Crystals

Foundation models for crystalline materials for energy storage and conversion applications

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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

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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

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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

Ramanathan INCITE 2024

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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

Nakano INCITE 2025

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

Online Machine Learning for Large Scale Turbulent Simulations

Jansen INCITE 2025

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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

Flood inundation visualization generated by the TRITON model

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

Advancing Fusion Reactor Materials Through Exascale Simulations

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

QCD under Extreme Conditions

Fodor INCITE 2025

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

ExaCortex: Exascale Reconstruction of Human Cerebral Cortex

Ferrier 2025 INCITE

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

3D Imaging of Strong Interaction Nambu-Goldstone Bosons

Zhao INCITE 2025

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

High-Throughput Lead Optimization with Amber

York INCITE 2025

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

High-Throughput Calculation of Materials Properties at Finite Temperature

Wolverton INCITE 2025

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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

Wagner INCITE 2025

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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

Stone INCITE 2025 1

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

Large-Scale Simulations of Inner-Ear Mechanotransduction Complexes

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

Experimental Realization of Certified Randomness from Quantum Supremacy

Shaydulin INCITE 2025

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

Exascale Simulations of Rayleigh-Benard Convection

Scheel INCITE 2025