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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Hours 114 Million Core-Hours
PI Michael Sprague, NREL

Towards Predictive Exascale Wind Farm Simulations

Flow visualization of the tip vortex

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Domain Engineering
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours
PI Janet Scheel , Occidental College

Convective Turbulence in Liquid Sodium

Snapshot of the boundary layer structure

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Domain Biological Sciences
Hours 92 Million Core-Hours
PI Benoit Roux, University of Chicago

The Free Energy Landscapes Governing Membrane Protein Function

Membrane bound structures of the sarcoplasmic endoplasmic reticulum calcium pump

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Domain Physics
Hours 55 Million Core-Hours
PI Konstantinos Orginos, College of William & Mary

Hadron structure from Lattice QCD

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Domain Computer Science
Hours 54 Million Core-Hours
PI Leonid Oliker, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Performance Evaluation and Analysis Consortium (PEAC) End Station

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Domain Engineering
Hours 81 Million Core-Hours
PI Joseph Nichols, University of Minnesota

Large-Eddy Simulation for the Prediction and Control of Impinging Jet Noise

High-fidelity simulations to reproduce laboratory experiments of a supersonic jet striking a flat wall

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 200 Million Core-Hours
PI Aiichiro Nakano, University of Southern California

Petascale Simulations for Layered Materials Genome

Computational synthesis and laser-induced patterning of a transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayer

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Domain Biological Sciences
Hours 160 Million Core-Hours
PI Eilif Muller, Blue Brain Project, EPFL

Biophysical Principles of Functional Synaptic Plasticity in the Neocortex

A visualization of 1 percentof the neurons in a digital reconstruction andsimulation of the neocortex.

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Domain Engineering
Hours 240 Million Core-Hours
PI Parviz Moin, Stanford University

Large-Eddy Simulation of a Commercial Transport Aircraft Model

NASA Common Research Model

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Domain Earth Science
Hours 264 Million Core-Hours
PI Gerald Meehl, NCAR

High Resolution Climate Change Simulations with the CESM

The ensemble mean of mid-latitude storm track density

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 260 Million Core-Hours
PI Noa Marom, Carnegie Mellon University

Materials and Interfaces for Organic and Hybrid Photovoltaics

Singlet fission (SF) materials ranked with respect to a two-dimensional descriptor

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours
PI Paul Mackenzie, Fermilab

Lattice QCD

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours
PI Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Predictive Simulations of Functional Materials

Diffusion Monte Carlo spin density difference between bulks of potassium-doped nickel oxideand pure nickel oxide

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 140 Million Core-Hours
PI Yosuke Kanai, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Modeling Electronic Stopping in Condensed Matter under Ion Irradiation

A snapshot from non-equilibrium electron dynamics simulationof solvated DNA under proton irradiation.

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Domain Earth Science
Hours 30 Million Core-Hours
PI Thomas H. Jordan, University of Southern California

Quantification of Uncertainty in Seismic Hazard using Physics-based Simulations

Shear wave velocity

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Domain Engineering
Hours 207 Million Core-Hours
PI Kenneth Jansen, University of Colorado, Boulder

Adaptive DDES of a Vertical Tail/Rudder Assembly with Active Flow Control

Instantaneous isosurface of vorticity (Q) from a detached eddy simulation of a vertical tail/rudder assembly

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Domain Engineering
Hours 78 Million Core-Hours
PI Koen Hillewaert, Cenaero

High-Accuracy LES of a Multistage Compressor Using Discontinuous Galerkin

Flow in the transonic turbine inlet guide vane LS89 at Re=1.2 million,

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours
PI Gaute Hagen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions

Atomic underpinnings of the neutron-rich calcium-48 nucleus with the Crab Nebula

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Domain Physics
Hours 30 Million Core-Hours
PI Sean Dettrick, TAE Technologies, Inc

Kinetic Simulation of FRC Stability and Transport

Feature of the physics underlying TAE’s field reversed configuration technology

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Domain Physics
Hours 24 Million Core-Hours
PI William Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Multiscale Modeling of Magnetic Reconnection in Space and Laboratory Plasmas

Fully kinetic simulation of magnetic reconnection in a semi-collisional plasma.