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


Michael E. Bartell, chief information officer at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in Washington, D.C., has been named chief information officer (CIO) for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (
James J. Hack directs the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) and the Oak Ridge Climate Change Science Institute. (
David C. Bader is the Deputy Director of the Oak Ridge Climate Change Science Institute, where he oversees of ORNL’s 2003 climate change research funded by the DOE Office of Science. (
Arthur Bernard Maccabe will direct the Computer Science and Mathematics (CSM) Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (