National Center for Computational Sciences

FY07 Projects

Multidimensional Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovas
Anthony Mezzacappa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jaguar: 7,000,000 hours
Phoenix: 300,000 hours
First-Principles Models of Type 1a Supernovas
Stan Woosley, University of California–Santa Cruz
Jaguar: 4,000,000 hours
Via Lactea: A Billion-Particle Simulation of the Milky Way’s Dark Matter Halo
Piero Madau, University of California–Santa Cruz
Jaguar: 1,500,000 hours
Numerical Relativity Simulations of Binary Black Holes and Gravitational Radiation
Joan Centrella, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center
Jaguar: 500,000 hours

Next Generation Simulations in Biology: Investigating Biomolecular Structures, Dynamics, and Function through Multiscale Modeling
Pratul Agarwal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jaguar: 1,000,000 hours
Gating Mechanism of Membrane Proteins
Benoit Roux, Argonne National Laboratory/University of Chicago
Jaguar: 4,000,000 hours

An Integrated Approach to the Rational Design of Chemical Catalysts
Robert Harrison, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jaguar: 3,000,000 hours
Phoenix: 300,000 hours

Climate-Science Computational End Station Development and Grand Challenge Team
Warren Washington, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Jaguar: 4,000,000 hours
Phoenix: 1,500,000 hours
Assessing Global Climate Response of the NCAR-CCSM3: CO₂ Sensitivity and Abrupt Climate Change
Zhengyu Liu, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Phoenix: 420,000 hours
Eulerian and Lagrangian Studies of Turbulent Transport in the Global Ocean
Synte Peacock, University of Chicago
Jaguar: 3,000,000 hours

Performance Evaluation and Analysis Consortium End Station
Patrick Worley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jaguar: 1,000,000 hours

Real-Time Ray Tracing
Evan Smyth, DreamWorks Animation
Jaguar: 900,000 hours
Development and Correlations of Large-Scale Computational Tools for Flight Vehicles
Moeljo Hong, The Boeing Company
Phoenix: 200,000 hours
High-Fidelity Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Combustion—Fundamental Science Toward Predictive Models
Jackie Chen, Sandia National Laboratories
Jaguar: 6,000,000 hours
Phoenix: 50,000 hours

Gyrokinetic Plasma Simulation
W.W. Lee, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Jaguar: 6,000,000 hours
Phoenix: 75,000 hours
Simulation of Wave-Plasma Interaction and Extended MHD in Fusion Systems
Don Batchelor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jaguar: 2,000,000 hours
Interaction of ITG/TEM and ETG Gyrokinetic Turbulence
Ronald Waltz, General Atomics
Phoenix: 500,000 hours
Gyrokinetic Steady-State Transport Simulations
Jeff Candy, General Atomics
Jaguar: 1,000,000 hours
High-Power Electromagnetic Wave Heating in the ITER Burning Plasma
Fred Jaeger, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jaguar: 500,000 hours

Ab Initio Modeling of the Glass Transition
John Mauro, Corning Incorporated
Phoenix: 100,000 hours
Predictive Simulations in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems and Functional Nanostructures
Thomas Schulthess, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jaguar: 7,000,000 hours
Phoenix: 500,000 hours
Linear-Scale Electronic Structure Calculations for Nanostructures
Lin-Wang Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jaguar: 1,500,000 hours
Bose-Einstein Condensation vs. Quantum Localization in Quantum Magnets
Tommasco Roscilde, Max-Planck Gesellschaft
Jaguar: 800,000 hours

Modeling Reactive Flows in Porous Media
Peter Lichtner, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jaguar: 1,000,000 hours
Computational Design of the Low-Loss Accelerating Cavity for the ILC
Kwok Ko, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Phoenix: 400,000 hours
Lattice QCD for Hadronic and Nuclear Physics
Robert Edwards, Jefferson Lab
Jaguar: 10,000,000 hours
Computational Atomic and Molecular Physics for Advances in Astrophysics, Chemical Sciences, and Fusion Energy Sciences
Michael Pindzola, Auburn University
Phoenix: 450,000 hours
Ab Initio Nuclear Structure Computations
David J. Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jaguar: 5,000,000 hours