Petascale Early Science
Astrophysics
A Three-Dimensional Model of SN1987A
PI: Tony Mezzacappa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Allocation: 60 million hours
Frontier Simulations of Black Hole Mergers
PI: Jim van Meter, NASA/GFSC
Allocation: 50 million hours
Biology
Cellulosic Ethanol: A Simulation Model of Lignocellulosic Biomass Deconstruction
PI: Jeremy Smith, University of Tennessee
Allocation: 25.5 million hours
Chemistry
CNP – Chemical Nanoscience at the PetaScale
PI: Robert Harrison, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/University of Tennessee
Allocation: 30 million hours
Using Advanced QMC to Probe the Structure of Water
PI: David Ceperly, University of Illinois
Allocation: 32 million hours
The Free Energy of Transfer of Hydronium from Bulk to Interface: A Comprehensive First Principles Study
PI: Chris Mundy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Allocation: 4 million hours
Climate
High Resolution Explorations of Data Assimilation
PI: Max Suarez, NASA/GMAO
Allocation: 20 million hours
Tests of Decadal Predictive Skill using the Community Climate System Model
PI: Kate Evans, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Allocation: 30 million hours
Coupled High-Resolution Modeling of the Earth System
PI: Venkatramani Balaji, NOAA
Allocation: 20 million hours
Combustion
Direct Numerical Simulation of Diesel Jet Flame Stabilization at High Pressure
PI: Jackie Chen, Sandia National Laboratories
Allocation: 50 million hours
Fusion
Steady-state Gyrokinetic Transport Code (SSGKT), an SAP to the FACETS Project
PI: Jeff Candy, General Atomics
Allocation: 4 million hours
Global Gyrokinetic Turbulence Simulations National Spherical Tones Experiment (NSTX)
PI: Weixing Wang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Allocation: 20 million hours
Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation of Transport Barrier Dynamics in Fusion Plasmas
PI: Zhihong Lin, University of California – Irvine
Allocation: 30 million hours
Geoscience
Modeling Reactive Flows in Porous Media
PI: Peter Lichtner, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Allocation: 10 million hours
Materials Science
Investigations of the Hubbard Model with Disorder
PI: Thomas Schulthess, ETH/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Allocation: 60 million hours
Charge Patching Method for Electronic Structures and Charge Transports of Organic and Organic/Inorganic Mixed Nanostructures
PI: Lin-Wang Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Allocation: 4 million hours
Petascale Simulation of Strongly-Correlated Electron Systems Using the Multi-Scale Many-Body Formalism
PI: Mark Jarrell, University of Cincinnati
Allocation: 15 million hours
Nuclear Energy
Denovo, A Scalable HPC Transport Code for Multi-Scale Nuclear Energy Applications
PI: Tom Evans, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Allocation: 10.25 million hours
Scalable Simulation of Neutron Transport in Fast Reactor Cores
PI: Denish Kaushik, Argonne National Laboratory
Allocation: 25 million hours
Nuclear Physics
Ab Initio Structure of Carbon-14
PI: David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Allocation: 30 million
