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 Materials Science
Hours 200 Million Core-Hours
PI Mark Gordon, Iowa State University

State-of-the Art Simulations of Liquid Phenomena

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 70 Million Core-Hours
PI Kenneth Jansen, University of Colorado Boulder

Adaptive Detached Eddy Simulation of a High Lift Wing with Active Flow Control

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 48 Million Core-Hours
PI Thomas Jordan, Southern California Earthquake Center

High Frequency Ground Motion Simulation for Seismic Hazard Analysis

Ground motion simulations reveal regions at risk of strong shaking during a possible magnitude-8 earthquake on the San Andreas fault

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 44 Million Core-Hours
PI Susan Kurien, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Parameter Studies of Boussinesq Flows

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Domain Computer Science
Hours 45 Million Core-Hours
PI Leonid Oliker, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Performance Evaluation and Analysis Consortium End Station

Allgather implementations on 32K BG/P cores, highlighting the bucket algorithm from UIUC

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours
PI Choong-Seock Chang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

High-fidelity Simulation of Tokamak Edge Plasma Transport

Plasma density fluctuation from large amplitude nonlinear turbulence in the tokamak edge region, obtained from the gyrokinetic code XGC1

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 11 Million Core-Hours
PI Hassan Nagib, Illinois Institute of Technology

Understanding Secondary Motions and Their Impact in Modeling Turbulent Flows

Award ALCC
Domain Materials Science
Hours 30 Million Core-Hours
PI Giancarlo Trimarchi, Northwestern University

Prediction and Design of Energy Materials by Petascale Evolutionary Algorithm Simulations

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 36.5 Million Core-Hours
PI Sanjiva Lele, Stanford University

Amplitude Modulation of Wind Turbine Noise

Award ALCC
Domain Computer Science
Hours 5 Million Core-Hours
PI Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories

Hobbes: Operating System and Runtime Research for Extreme Scale

Award ALCC
Domain Physics
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours
PI Thomas LeCompte, Argonne National Laboratory

Simulation of Large Hadron Collider Events Using Leadership Computing

Award ALCC
Domain Chemistry
Hours 57.6 Million Core-Hours
PI Gregory Voth, University of Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory

Influence of Morphology on Proton Transport in Proton Exchange Membrane

Example of a water pathway that forms in polyelectrolyte membranes connecting two hydrophilic (water) regions

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 76.8 Million Core-Hours
PI Igor A. Bolotnov, North Carolina State University

Turbulent Multiphase Flows for Nuclear Reactor Safety

Award ALCC
Domain Materials Science
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours
PI Aidan Thompson, Sandia National Laboratories

Nanostructure‐enhanced Chemical Reactivity and Detonation in Energetic Materials

8 million atom molecular dynamics simulation

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Domain Engineering
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours
PI Elia Merzari, Argonne National Laboratory

Petascale Simulations in Support of CESAR

Large eddy simulation of the flow in a rod bundle at high Reynolds numbers. Rod bundles are a fundamental component of reactor cores.

Award ALCC
Domain Physics
Hours 88.7 Million Core-Hours
PI Julius Kuti, University of California, San Diego

Composite Higgs Theory Beyond the Standard Model and the 14 TeV Upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider

Award ALCC
Domain Physics
Hours 66 Million Core-Hours
PI Brian Wirth, University of Tennessee

Understanding Helium Plasma Mediated Tungsten Surface Response to Better Predict Fusion Plasma Facing Component Performance in ITER

Award ALCC
Domain Materials Science
Hours 75 Million Core-Hours
PI Noa Marom, Tulane University

Interfaces in Organic and Hybrid Photovoltaics

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Domain Engineering
Hours 120 Million Core-Hours
PI Parviz Moin, Stanford University

Predictive Large‐Eddy Simulation of Jet Fuel Atomization, High‐Lift Airframes, and Reacting Supersonic Turbulent Flows on Unstructured Grids

swirling injector

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Domain Earth Science
Hours 107 Million Core-Hours
PI Peter Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Delivering the Department of Energy's Next‐Generation High‐Resolution Earth System Model