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

Performance Evaluation and Analysis Consortium (PEAC) End Station

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

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Domain Physics
Hours 180 Million Core-Hours
PI Paul Mackenzie, Fermilab

Lattice QCD

form factor for the decay of a kaon into a pion and two leptons

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 75 Million Core-Hours
PI Peter Littlewood, Argonne National Laboratory

Unveiling the Behavior of UO2 Under Extreme Physical Conditions

Image representative of this INCITE project’s objective to gain a fundamental understanding of the fluid dynamics, the electronic structure, and mechanical properties of hot solid and molten nuclear systems

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Domain Engineering
Hours 72 Million Core-Hours
PI Petros Koumoutsakos, ETH Zurich

Direct Numerical Simulations and Robust Predictions of Cloud Cavitation Collapse

Initiation of cloud cavitation collapse for 50,000 bubbles

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Domain Chemistry
Hours 140 Million Core-Hours
PI Alexei Khokhlov, The University of Chicago

First-Principles Simulations of High-Speed Combustion and Detonation

Three-dimensional view of shock reflection in a square tube

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 126 Million Core-Hours
PI James Kermode, University of Warwick

SiO2 Fracture: Chemomechanics with a Machine Learning Hybrid QM/MM Scheme

Crack propagation in a two-dimensional bilayer of amorphous silicon dioxide modeled with a polarizable interatomic potential

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Domain Biological Sciences
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours
PI George Karniadakis, Brown University

Multiscale Simulations of Human Pathologies

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 180 Million Core-Hours
PI Rajiv Kalia, University of Southern California

Petascale Simulations of Self-Healing Nanomaterials

H2 production from water using a LiAl particle

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Domain Engineering
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours
PI Kenneth Jansen, University of Colorado, Boulder

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

Vorticity contours colored by speed from a detached eddy simulation of flow around a high lift multi-element wing at maximum lift

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Domain Computer Science
Hours 20 Million Core-Hours
PI Robert Harrison, Stony Brook University

Dynamic and Adaptive Parallel Programming for Exascale Research

A neutron wave-function for a benchmark calculation

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Domain Physics
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours
PI Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory

Cosmological Simulations for Large-Scale Sky Surveys

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

State-of-the Art Simulations of Liquid Phenomena

a nitrate anion solvated by 32 water molecules

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Domain Physics
Hours 65 Million Core-Hours
PI Nickolay Gnedin, Fermilab

Cosmic Reionization On Computers

Simulation of cosmic reionization

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 150 Million Core-Hours
PI Giulia Galli, University of Chicago

Computational Spectroscopy of Heterogeneous Interfaces

Complex interfaces between nanoparticles and a solvent

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Domain Engineering
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours
PI Anne Dord, GE Aviation

Large Eddy Simulations of Combustor Liner Flows

Turbulent flow going through a multi-hole coupon geometry

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours
PI Sean Couch, Michigan State University

Petascale Simulation of Magnetorotational Core-Collapse Supernovae

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence powered by neutrino driven convection

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours
PI Maria Chan, Argonne National Laboratory

Combining High Accuracy Electronic Structure Methods to Study Surface Reactions

A model of the aMnO2 (001) surface (side view) with lithium intercalated in the structure and an oxygen molecule adsorbed on top. Purple = Mn, red = O, green = Li.

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 90 Million Core-Hours
PI David Ceperley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

QMC Simulations Database for Predictive Modeling and Theory

DMC spin densities for antiferromagnetic states AF1 (left) and AF3 (right)

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Domain Chemistry
Hours 280 Million Core-Hours
PI Martin Berzins, University of Utah

Evaluation of a 1000 MW Commercial Ultra Super-Critical Coal Boiler

Large eddy simulation prediction of instantaneous O2 mass fraction in a hypothetical commercial scale 1000 MW, Ultra Super-Critical (USC) coal boiler

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

Towards Breakthroughs in Protein Structure Calculation and Design

A metal-binding protein designed by the Baker laboratory.