Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate

SuperComputing 2009

New Chief Information Officer

New CSMD Director

NCCS Projects

Astrophysics

  • “Multidimensional Simulations of Core Collapse Supernovae”
    Anthony Mezzacappa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Jaguar: 6,000,000 hours
  • “First Principles Models of Type Ia Supernovae”
    Stan Woosley, University of Californ, Santa Cruz
    Jaguar: 3,500,000 hours
  • “Numerical Relativity Simulations of Binary Black Holes and Gravitational Radiation”
    Joan Centrella, National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration
    Jaguar: 1,000,000 hours

Biology

  • “Cellulosic Ethanol: Physical Basis of Recalcitrance to Hydrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass”
    Jeremy Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Jaguar: 3,500,000 hours
  • “Gating Mechanism of Membrane Proteins”
    Benoit Roux, Argonne Nat Lab & The University of Chicago
    Jaguar: 3,500,000 hours

Chemistry

  • “Molecular simulation of complex chemical systems”
    Christopher Mundy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Jaguar: 750,000 hours
  • “An Integrated Approach to the Rational Design of Chemical Catalysts”
    Robert Harrison, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Jaguar: 10,000,000 hours

Climate

  • “The Role of Eddies in the Meridional Overturning Circulation”
    Paola Cessi, University of California, San Diego
    Phoenix:  486,000 hours
  • “Assessing Global Climate Response of the NCAR-CCSM3: CO2 Sensitivity and Abrupt Climate Change”
    Zhengyu Liu, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Phoenix: 420,000 processor hours
  • “Eulerian and Lagrangian Studies of Turbulent Transport in the Global Ocean”
    Synte Peacock, ASC/Alliance Flash Center, University of Chicago
    Jaguar: 3,163,000 hours
  • “Climate-Science Computational End Station Development and Grand Challenge Team”
    Warren Washington, National Center for Atmospheric Research
    Jaguar: 15,718,000 hours
  • “Modeling Reactive Flows in Porous Media”
    Peter Lichtner, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Jaguar: 1,800,000 processor hours

Computer Science

  • “Performance Evaluation and Analysis Consortium End Station”
    Patrick Worley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Jaguar: 4,000,000 hours

Engineering

  • “High-Fidelity Simulations for Clean and Efficient Combustion of Alternative Fuels”
    Jacqueline Chen, Sandia National Laboratories
    Jaguar: 18,000,000 hours
  • “Clean and Efficient Coal Gasifier Designs using Large-Scale Simulations”
    Madhava Syamlal, National Energy Technology Laboratory
    Jaguar: 3,000,000 hours
  • “Landmark Direct Numerical Simulations of Separation and Transition for Aerospace-Relevant Wall-Bounded Shear Flows”
    Hermann Fasel, University of Arizona
    Phoenix: 400,000 hours

Fusion

  • “Verification and validation of petascale simulation of turbulent transport in fusion plasmas”
    Patrick Diamond, University of California, San Diego
    Jaguar: 8,000,000 hours
  • “Fluctuation Spectra and Anomalous Heating in Magnetized Plasma Turbulence”
    William Dorland, University of Maryland
    Jaguar: 4,000,000 hours
  • “Gyrokinetic steady state transport simulations”
    Jeff Candy, General Atomics
    Jaguar: 1,500,000 hours
  • “High Power Electromagnetic Wave Heating in the ITER Burning Plasma”
    E. Fred Jaeger, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Jaguar: 1,000,000 hours

Materials

  • “Predictive and accurate Monte Carlo based simulations for Mott insulators, cuprate superconductors, and nanoscale systems.”
    Thomas Schulthess, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Jaguar: 10,000,000 hours
  • “Electronic, Lattice, and Mechanical Properties of Novel Nano-Structured Bulk Materials”
    Jihui Yang, GM R&D Center
    Jaguar : 10,000,000 hours
  • “Development and Correlations of Large Scale Computational Tools for Flight Vehicles”
    Moeljo Hong, The Boeing Company
    Jaguar: 100,000 hours
    Phoenix: 300,000 hours
  • “Bose-Einstein condensation vs. quantum localization in quantum magnets”
    Tommaso Roscilde, Max-Planck Gesellschaft
    Jaguar: 1,200,000 hours
  • “Linear Scale Electronic Structure Calculations for Nanostructures”
     Lin-Wang Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Jaguar: 2,100,000 hours

Physics

  • “Computational Nuclear Structure”
    David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Jaguar: 7,500,000 processor hours
  • “Petascale Computing for Terascale Particle Accelerator: International Linear Collider Design and Modeling”
    Lie-Quan Lee, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
    Jaguar: 4,500,000 processor hours
  • “Lattice QCD”
    Robert Sugar. University of California, Santa Barbara
    Jaguar: 7,100,000 processor hours
  • “Computational Atomic and Molecular Physics for Advances in Astrophysics, Chemical Sciences and Fusion Energy Sciences”
    Michael Pindzola, Auburn University
    Phoenix: 2,000,000 processor hours
  • “Modeling heliospheric phenomena with an adaptive, MHD-Boltzmann code”
    Nikolai Pogorelov, University of California, Riverside
    Jaguar: 850,000 hours