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 Earth Science
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours
PI David Trebotich, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Chombo-Crunch: Modeling Pore-Scale Reactive Transport in Carbon Sequestration

Transient pH on calcite grains in capillary tube experiment. 1 billion grid points computed on 48K cores. 1 micron resolution.

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Domain Earth Science
Hours 102.8 Million Core-Hours
PI Warren Washington, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)

CESM Century-Scale Climate Experiments with a High-Resolution Atmosphere

A portion of the 1/4 degree grid global grid is shown over the southeast part of the United States.

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Domain Biological Sciences
Hours 45 Million Core-Hours
PI George Karniadakis, Brown University

Multiscale Simulations of Human Pathologies

brain aneurysm

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 60 Million Core-Hours
PI Juan de Pablo, University of Chicago

Molecular Engineering through Free Energy Mapping

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours
PI Larry Curtiss, Argonne National Laboratory

Predictive Materials Modeling for Li-Air Battery Systems

The electron density obtained from a density functional theory (DFT) calculation of lithium oxide performed with the GPAW code

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Domain Physics
Hours 240 Million Core-Hours
PI Paul Mackenzie, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Lattice QCD

This diagram illustrates the wide range of distance scales that must be understood before the calculations of the decay of a kaon into two pions can be performed.

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 200 Million Core-Hours
PI Rajiv Kalia, University of Southern California

Petascale Simulations of Self-Healing Nanomaterials

An image of a self-healing ceramic nanocomposite

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Domain Engineering
Hours 75 Million Core-Hours
PI Anne Dord, GE Global Research

Large Eddy Simulations of Combustor Liner Flows

Large Eddy Simulations of a GE CFM combustor, temperature distribution and liquid fuel droplets.

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Domain Physics
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours
PI William Tang, Princeton University

Kinetic Simulations of Fusion Energy Dynamics at the Extreme Scale

Electrostatic potential in a particle-in-cell simulation of a tokamak plasma.

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours
PI Jean C. Perez, University of New Hampshire

Petascale Simulations of Inhomogeneous Alfvén 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 Computer Science
Hours 30 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 120 Million Core-Hours
PI Frederico Fiuza, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Particle Acceleration in Shocks: From Astrophysics to Laboratory In Silico

Magnetic field generation in a collisionless shock

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Domain Engineering
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours
PI Susan Kurien, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Parameter Studies of Boussinesq Flows

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours
PI James Vary, Iowa State University

Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions

Slice of the translationally-invariant proton hexadecapole density of the ground state of 8Li,

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Domain Materials Science
Hours 56 Million Core-Hours
PI Dario Alfe, University College London

Non-Covalent Bonding in Complex Molecular Systems with Quantum Monte Carlo

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Domain Physics
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours
PI James Amundson, Fermilab

Intensity-Dependent Dynamics in Fermilab and CERN Accelerators

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

High-Fidelity Simulation of Tokamak Edge Plasma Transport

Plasma density fluctuation from large amplitude nonlinear turbulence in the tokamak edge region, obtained from the gyrokinetic code XGC1

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Domain Earth Science
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours
PI Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories

High-Resolution Simulation for Climate Means, Variability, and Extreme

A plot of precipitable water (gray scale) and precipitation rate (colors) in a simulation of the Earth's atmosphere.

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Domain Engineering
Hours 66 Million Core-Hours
PI Kenneth Jansen, University of Colorado

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

Full span view of the flow past a vertical tail assembly of a commercial aircraft with active flow control at Re=360,000.

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Domain Earth Science
Hours 64.2 Million Core-Hours
PI Thomas Jordan, University of Southern California

High Frequency Physics-Based Earthquake System Simulations

Ground motion simulations reveal regions at risk of strong shaking during a possible magnitude-8 earthquake on the San Andreas fault