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 Biological Sciences
Hours 20 Million Core-Hours
PI George Schatz, Northwestern University

Computational Studies of Nucleosome Stability

nucleosome 1KX5

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Domain Biological Sciences
Hours 55 Million Core-Hours
PI Benoit Roux, The University of Chicago

Studies of Large Conformational Changes in Biomolecular Machines

Typical configuration of a zwitterionic lipid bilayer membrane.

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Domain Chemistry
Hours 20 Million Core-Hours
PI Thierry Poinsot, CERFACS

From LES to DNS of Explosions in Semi-confined Domains

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Domain Physics
Hours 53 Million Core-Hours
PI Jean C. Perez, University of New Hampshire

Petascale Simulations of Inhomogeneous Alfven Turbulence in the Solar Wind

A snapshot of turbulent magnetic field lines (red) inside a coronal hole that expands from a small patch on the solar surface to 5 solar radii

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Domain Earth Science
Hours 25 Million Core-Hours
PI Roberto Paoli, CERFACS

Evaluation of Mesoscale Atmospheric Model for Contrail Cirrus Simulations

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Domain Engineering
Hours 105 Million Core-Hours
PI Umesh Paliath, GE Global Research

Enabling Green Energy and Propulsion Systems via Direct Noise Computation

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Domain Computer Science
Hours 85 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 175 Million Core-Hours
PI Robert Moser, University of Texas

Direct Numerical Simulations of High Reynolds Number Turbulent Channel Flow

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Domain Physics
Hours 65 Million Core-Hours
PI Anthony Mezzacappa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Three Dimensional Simulations for Core Collapse Supernovae

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Domain Physics
Hours 430 Million Core-Hours
PI Paul Mackenzie, Fermilab

Lattice QCD

calculations of the decay of a kaon into two pions

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Domain Computer Science
Hours 20 Million Core-Hours
PI Robert Latham, Argonne National Laboratory

Scalable System Software for Parallel Programming

Streamlines from an early time step of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability

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Domain Physics
Hours 200 Million Core-Hours
PI Steven Langer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Simulation of Laser-plasma Interaction in National Ignition Facility Experiments

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Domain Physics
Hours 105 Million Core-Hours
PI Don Lamb, The University of Chicago

Next-Generation Petascale Simulations of Type Ia Supernovae

deflagration to detonation transition model

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Domain Chemistry
Hours 130 Million Core-Hours
PI Alexei Khokhlov, The University of Chicago

Simulations of Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition in Reactive Gases

numerically generated pseudo-schlieren image

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Domain Biological Sciences
Hours 71 Million Core-Hours
PI George Karniadakis, Brown University

Multiscale Blood Flow Simulations

a continuum model

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Domain Earth Science
Hours 68 Million Core-Hours
PI Thomas Jordan, University of Southern California

CyberShake 3.0: Physics-based Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis

potential source faults for Southern California

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Domain Physics
Hours 40 Million Core-Hours
PI Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory

Computing the Dark Universe

outer rim simulation

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Domain Computer Science
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours
PI Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Developing and Testing Future Applications and Operating Systems for Exascale

diagram

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 20 Million Core-Hours
PI Timothy Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Multibillion-atom MD Studies of the Mechanical Response of Nanocrystalline Ta

Plastic deformation of a shock-compressed Ta

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 20 Million Core-Hours
PI William George, National Institute of Standards and Technology

High Fidelity Simulation of Complex Suspension Flow for Practical Rheometry

A visualization of the flow of concrete, a complex suspension