Physics
The physical world is governed by laws describing how matter and energy interact at scales ranging from the smallest particles to the entire universe. Physicists are using the National Center for Computational Sciences’ enormous computing power to reveal the nature of matter at its most elusive—from the behavior of molecules to the atoms that make up those molecules to the quarks, electrons, and other fundamental particles that make up the atoms and everything we know.
Their results will not only give us a richer understanding of what we are, they will also inform a broad range of other sciences, increasing our knowledge and fueling technological advances.
Physics Projects
Computational Nuclear Structure
- David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- 15,000,000 processor hours
- Lie-Quan Lee, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- 8,000,000 processor hours
- Paul Mackenzie, Fermi National Accelerator Lab
- 20,000,000 processor hours
High-Fidelity Computations for Complex Biological Membranes
- Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories
- 1,000,000 hours
