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 ALCC
Domain Materials Science
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours
PI Jeffrey Greeley, Purdue University

First Principles Investigations of Adsorbate-Metal Interactions: Quantum Monte Carlo and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Award ALCC
Domain Physics
Hours 19.5 Million Core-Hours
PI Frederico Fiuza, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Predictive Full-Scale Simulations of Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets

Interaction of a fast-ignition-scale laser with a dense DT plasma.

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Domain Physics
Hours 250 Million Core-Hours
PI Robert A. DiStasio Jr. , Princeton University

Ab Initio Quantum Liquid Water and Aqueous Ionic Solutions

A systematization of a lithium atom (yellow) immersed into an aqueous environment.

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 150 Million Core-Hours
PI Michael Wehner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Attributing Changes in the Risk of Extreme Weather and Climate

CAM5 hi-resolution simulations

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 215 Million Core-Hours
PI Warren Washington, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Climate-Science Computational Development Team: The Climate End Station II

Award INCITE
Domain Materials Science
Hours 25 Million Core-Hours
PI Gregory A. Voth, The University of Chicago

Multiscale Modeling of Energy Storage Materials

Illustration of the electrode-SEI

Award INCITE
Domain Materials Science
Hours 240 Million Core-Hours
PI Priya Vashishta, University of Southern California

Petascale Simulations of Stress Corrosion Cracking

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours 155 Million Core-Hours
PI James Vary, Iowa State University

Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions

ADLB (Asynchronous Dynamic Load-Balancing) version of GFMC

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours 40 Million Core-Hours
PI William Tang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Kinetic Simulations of Fusion Energy Dynamics at the Extreme Scale

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 35 Million Core-Hours
PI Lee Shunn, Cascade Technologies, Inc.

Combustion Stability in Complex Engineering Flows

Instantaneous contours of temperature from large eddy simulation

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

Computational Studies of Nucleosome Stability

nucleosome 1KX5

Award INCITE
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.

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

From LES to DNS of Explosions in Semi-confined Domains

Award INCITE
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

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

Evaluation of Mesoscale Atmospheric Model for Contrail Cirrus Simulations

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

Enabling Green Energy and Propulsion Systems via Direct Noise Computation

Award INCITE
Domain Computer Science
Hours 85 Million Core-Hours
PI Leonid Oliker, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Performance Evaluation and Analysis Consortium (PEAC) End Station

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 175 Million Core-Hours
PI Robert Moser, University of Texas

Direct Numerical Simulations of High Reynolds Number Turbulent Channel Flow

Award INCITE
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