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 ADSP
Domain Physics
PI Chris Jacobsen, Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University

X-ray Microscopy of Extended 3D Objects: Scaling Towards the Future

Jacobsen ADSP2020

Award ADSP
Domain Physics
PI Eliu Huerta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Deep Learning at Scale for Multimessenger Astrophysics Through the NCSA-Argonne Collaboration

Huerta ADSP2020

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours 8.6 Million Core-Hours
PI Jean-Luc Vay, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

PLASM-IN-SILICO: HPC Modeling of High-Intensity Laser-Solid Interaction

A plasma mirror exposed to a UHI laser field with plasma electron density (gray color map), vacuum (white), and emitted attosecond light pulses (violet). The relativistic electron bunches ejected into the vacuum appear in gray.

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours 6,750,000 Core-Hours
PI Dmitri Uzdensky, University of Colorado, Boulder

Astrophysical Particle Accelerators: Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence

Surface image of the electron energy density from a snapshot of a 10243-cell particle-in-cell simulation of driven kinetic turbulence in a plasma consisting of sub-relativistic ions and ultra-relativistic electrons.

Award INCITE
Domain Energy Technologies
Hours 1.5 Million Core-Hours
PI Frank Tsung, University of California, Los Angeles

Petascale Simulations of Kinetic Effects in IFE Plasmas

3D speckle pattern generated by the particle-in-cell code OSIRIS.  The goal of this INCITE project is to study laser plasma interactions with higher-dimensional effects (such as laser speckles) and pave the way to 3D multi-speckle simulations in the upcoming exascale era.

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 2.35 Million Core-Hours
PI Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories

Energy Exascale Earth System Model

Award INCITE
Domain Biological Sciences
Hours 5 Million Core-Hours
PI Allen Taflove, Northwestern University

Finite Difference Time Domain Simulations to Facilitate Early-Stage Human Cancer Detection

Alterations of the nanoscale structure of live HeLa cells after chemical fixation, as observed using partial wave spectroscopic (PWS) optical microscopy.  Chemical fixation appears to alter the cellular nanoscale structure in addition to terminating its macromolecular remodeling.  These changes could not be detected using traditional modes of optical microscopy, being far smaller than the diffraction limit of visible light.

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 12.5 Million Core-Hours
PI Janet Scheel, Occidental College

Towards Ultimate Rayleigh-Benard Convection

Temperature very near the bottom plate for Rayleigh-Benard Convection flow in a cylindrical container for a Rayleigh number of 3*10^{10}, a Prandtl number of 0.7, and an aspect ratio of 1.0 (i.e., diameter = depth). Dark red corresponds to higher temperature and white to lower temperatures. The image shows that the boundary layer is already becoming intermittently turbulent at this Rayleigh number.

Award INCITE
Domain Materials Science
Hours .65 Million Core-Hours
PI Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Argonne National Laboratory

Reactive Meroscale Simulations of Tribological Interfaces

Atomistic simulations indicate that both silicon and molybdenum induce structural degradation of nanodiamonds: silicon induces rapid amorphization of the diamond lattice and the amorphous carbon subsequently transforms into carbon onions (pictured) which lead to a near frictionless state.

Award INCITE
Domain Energy Technologies
Hours 17.7 Million Core-Hours
PI Aleksandr Obabko, Argonne National Laboratory

Bringing NE Regulatory Workflow on a Path to Exascale: LES Validation for PANDA

Award INCITE
Domain Materials Science
Hours 12.5 Million Core-Hours
PI Aiichiro Nakano, University of Southern California

Petascale Simulations for Layered Materials Genome

Machine learning-guided computational synthesis of MoS2 monolayer by chemical vapor deposition. The local structures are classified into 1T-crystal (green), 2H-crystal (red) and disordered (blue) phases. Superimposed is a neural-network model for phase/defect identification and classification.

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 24 Million Core-Hours
PI Parviz Moin, Stanford University

Large-Eddy Simulation of a Commercial Transport Aircraft Model

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 13.25 Million Core-Hours
PI Gerald Meehl, NCAR

High-Resolution Climate Sensitivity and Prediction Simulations with the CESM

Award INCITE
Domain Materials Science
Hours 17 Million Core-Hours
PI Noa Marom, Carnegie Mellon University

Materials and Interfaces for Organic and Hybrid Photovoltaics

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours 25.6 Million Core-Hours
PI Paul Mackenzie, Fermilab

Lattice QCD

An antiquark (magenta) inside a cloud of gluons (green). USQCD researchers discovered a new and unambiguous way to decide how much of the cloud’s energy should be considered part of the quark mass. This idea was applied to simulation data generated with Mira to compute quark massed from first principles.

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 4.5 Million Core-Hours
PI Sanjiva Lele, Stanford University

Shock-Induced Multi-Material Mixing

Award INCITE
Domain Materials Science
Hours 1.75 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 oxide and pure nickel oxide, showing the effects of substituting a potassium atom (center atom) for a nickel atom on the spin density of the bulk.

Award INCITE
Domain Materials Science
Hours 5.18 Million Core-Hours
PI Yosuke Kanai, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Advancing Electronic Stopping Simulation: From Solids to DNA

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 7.87 Million Core-Hours
PI Koen Hillewaert, Cenaero

DNS Reference Data for Turbulence Model Development on the Bachalo-Johnson ATB

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours 4.15 Million Core-Hours
PI Gaute Hagen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Ab-initio Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions