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 50 Million Core-Hours
PI James Amundson, Fermilab

High-­Intensity Multibunch Physics in the Fermilab Accelerator Complex

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 117 Million Core-Hours
PI J. Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota

Predictive Modeling of Functional Nanoporous Materials, Nanoparticle Assembly, and Reactive Systems

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 36 Million Core-Hours
PI Kristin Persson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The Materials Project -­ Completing the Space of Elastic and Piezoelectric Tensors

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Domain Engineering
Hours 25 Million Core-Hours
PI Anupam Sharma, Iowa State University

Unraveling Silent Owl Flight to Develop Ultra-­Quiet Energy Conversion Machines

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

Extreme-Scale Gyrokinetic Particle Simulations to Complete the 2016 OFES National Theory/Simulation Performance Target and to Study the Fundamental Edge Physics

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 53.7 Million Core-Hours
PI Marco Govoni , University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory

Computational Engineering of Defects in Soft and Hard Materials for Energy and Quantum Information Applications

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Domain Engineering
Hours 72.1 Million Core-Hours
PI Igor Bolotnov, North Carolina State University

Multiphase Simulations of Nuclear Reactor Flows

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Domain Earth Science
Hours 90 Million Core-Hours
PI Thomas Jordan, University of Southern California

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

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours
PI Gregory Voth, University of Chicago

Charge Transport in Thin Film Ionomers

Model of a thin film Nafion ionomer (green translucent surface) in a fuel cell membrane/catalyst interface

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Domain Physics
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours
PI James Vary, Iowa State University

Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions

Projections of the 3D dynamic spontaneous fission path

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Domain Physics
Hours 90 Million Core-Hours
PI Dmitri Uzdensky, University of Colorado, Boulder

Kinetic Simulations of Relativistic Radiative Magnetic Reconnection

This visualization shows the increased plasma density inside flux ropes

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours
PI Frank Tsung, University of California, Los Angeles

Petascale Simulations of Laser Plasma Interaction Relevant to IFE

Ex-field at two different times showing the evolution of a nonlinear electron plasma wave in an SRS simulation using OSIRIS

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Domain Earth Science
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours
PI Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories

Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy

a Category 5 hurricane simulated by the CESM at 13 km resolution

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Domain Physics
Hours 47 Million Core-Hours
PI James Stone, Princeton University

Magnetohydrodynamic Models of Accretion Including Radiation Transport

Snapshot of the global structure of a radiation-dominated accretion flow around a black hole computed using the Athena++ code

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 70 Million Core-Hours
PI Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Electronic Response to Particle Radiation in Condensed Matter

hydrogen atom moving through gold

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

Convective Turbulence in Liquid Gallium and Sodium

The field displays the complex dynamics of the velocity field

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 40 Million Core-Hours
PI Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Argonne National Laboratory

Reactive MD Simulations of Electrochemical Oxide Interfaces at Mesoscale

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Domain Biological Sciences
Hours 160 Million Core-Hours
PI Benoit Roux, University of Chicago

Protein-Protein Binding Specificity

This so-called computational microcalorimeter was employed to determine the standard binding constant of the proteins barstar and barnase

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours
PI Claudia Ratti, University of Houston

Fundamental Properties of QCD Matter produced at RHIC and the LHC

The image illustrates how protons, neutrons, and other hadrons formed from quarks and gluons during the QCD transition as the universe expanded

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Domain Engineering
Hours 150 Million Core-Hours
PI Jonathan Poggie, Purdue University

Direct Numerical Simulation of Compressible, Turbulent Flow

Sample slice of the instantaneous density field