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 159 Million Core-Hours
PI Sean Couch, Michigan State University

Extreme-scale Simulation of Supernovae and Magnetars from Realistic Progenitors

Volume rendering of entropy from a 3D magnetorotational core-collapse supernova

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Domain Physics
Hours 62 Million Core-Hours
PI C.S. Chang, Princeton Plasma physics Laboratory

High-fidelity Gyrokinetic Simulation of Tokamak and ITER Edge Physics

Trapped(leftcross-section)and passing(right cross-section)electronscarried inthebootstrap current of a tokamak

Award INCITE
Domain Chemistry
Hours 46 Million Core-Hours
PI Maria Chan, Argonne National Laboratory

High-Accuracy Quantum Approaches for Predictions of Catalysis on Solids

Charge density isosurface of CO adsorbed on a Cu2O surface.

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 110 Million Core-Hours
PI Vasily Bulatov, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Crystal Plasticity from First Principles

An all-atoms view of a single snapshot from the trajectory of an MD simulationof high-rate compression of tantalum

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours 98 Million Core-Hours
PI Radja Boughezal, Argonne National Laboratory

Collider Physics at the Precision Frontier

Simulation of a vector boson plus jet event

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours 60 Million Core-Hours
PI Lars Bildsten, University of California, Santa Barbara

Global Radiation MHD Simulations of Massive Star Envelopes

Global radiation hydrodynamic simulation of an 80-solar-mass star envelope

Award ADSP
Domain Physics
Hours 45 Million Core-Hours
PI Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory

Advancing the Scalability of LHC Workflows to Enable Discoveries at the Energy Frontier

Award ADSP
Domain Biological Sciences
Hours 10 Million Core-Hours
PI Fabien Delalondre, Ecole Federale Polytechnique de Lausanne

Leveraging Non-Volatile Memory, Big Data and Distributed Workflow Technology to Leap Forward Brain Modeling

Award ADSP
Domain Biological Sciences
Hours 25 Million Core-Hours
PI Doga Gursoy, Argonne National Laboratory

Large-Scale Computing and Visualization on the Connectomes of the Brain

Award ADSP
Domain Materials Science
Hours 117 Million Core-Hours
PI Jacqueline Cole, University of Cambridge

Data­-Driven Molecular Engineering of Solar­ Powered Windows

Award ADSP
Domain Materials Science
Hours 60 Million Core-Hours
PI Alexandre Tkatchenko, University of Luxembourg

Constructing and Navigating Polymorphic Landscapes of Molecular Crystals

Award ADSP
Hours 10 Million Core-Hours
PI Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine

Massive Hyperparameter Searches on Deep Neural Networks Using Leadership Systems

Award ADSP
Domain Physics
Hours 70 Million Core-Hours
PI Katrin Heitmann, Argonne National Laboratory

Realistic Simulations of the LSST Survey at Scale

Award ADSP
Domain Engineering
Hours 8 Million Core-Hours
PI Rathakrishnan Bhaskaran, GE Global Research

Enabling Multiscale Physics for Industrial Design Using Deep Learning Networks

Award INCITE
Domain Chemistry
Hours 120 Million Core-Hours
PI David Baker, University of Washington

Advancing Design & Structure Prediction of Proteins & Peptides

Prediction of three-dimensional structure from the amino acid

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 90 Million Core-Hours
PI Hussein Aluie, University of Rochester

Multiscale Physics of the Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

Grand-challenge, fully compressible Rayleigh-Taylor simulation

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 215 Million Core-Hours
PI Gerald Meehl, NCAR

High-Resolution Climate Change Simulations with the CESM

a present-day simulation with a 1/4 degree horizontal resolution atmosphere

Award ALCC
Domain Physics
Hours 35 Million Core-Hours
PI Alessandro Lovato, Argonne National Laboratory

Nuclear Spectra with Chiral Forces

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 60 Million Core-Hours
PI Daniel Livescu, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Non-Boussinesq Effects on Buoyancy-Driven Variable Density Turbulence

Award ALCC
Domain Biological Sciences
Hours 20 Million Core-Hours
PI George Karniadakis, Brown University

Multiscale Simulations of Hematological Disorders