FY08 Projects

Astrophysics

Multidimensional Simulations of Core Collapse Supernovae

  • PI: Anthony Mezzacappa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Jaguar: 16,000,000 hours

First Principles Models of Type 1a Supernovae

  • PI: Stan Woosley, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Jaguar: 3,500,000 hours

Numerical Relativity Simulations of Binary Black Holes and Gravitational Radiation

  • PI: Joan Centrella, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Jaguar: 1,000,000 hours

Biology

Cellulosic Ethanol: Physical Basis of Recalcitrance to Hydrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass

  • PI: Jeremy Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Jaguar: 3,500,000 hours

Gating Mechanism of Membrane Proteins

  • PI: Benoit Roux, Argonne National Laboratory & the University of Chicago
  • Jaguar: 3,500,000 hours

Chemistry

Molecular Simulation of Complex Chemical Systems

  • PI: Christopher Mundy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Jaguar: 750,000 hours

An Integrated Approach to the Rational Design of Chemical Catalysts

  • PI: Robert Harrison, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Jaguar: 10,000,000 hours

Climate

The Role of Eddies in the Meridional Overturning Circulation

  • PI: 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

  • PI: Zhengyu Liu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Phoenix: 420,000 processor hours

Eulerian and Lagrangian Studies of Turbulent Transport in the Global Ocean

  • PI: Synte Peacock, ASC/Alliance Flash Center, University of Chicago
  • Jaguar: 3,163,000 hours

Climate-Science Computational End Station Development and Grand Challenge Team

  • PI: Warren Washington, National Center for Atmospheric Research
  • Jaguar: 15,718,000 hours

Modeling Reactive Flows in Porous Media

  • PI: Peter Lichtner, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Jaguar: 1,800,000 processor hours

Computer Science

Engineering

High-Fidelity Simulations for Clean and Efficient Combustion of Alternative Fuels

  • PI: Jacqueline Chen, Sandia National Laboratories
  • Jaguar: 18,000,000 hours

Clean and Efficient Coal Gasifier Designs using Large-Scale Simulations

  • PI: 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

  • PI: Hermann Fasel, University of Arizona
  • Phoenix: 400,000 hours

Fusion

Verification and Validation of Petascale Simulation of Turbulent Transport in Fusion Plasmas

  • PI: Patrick Diamond, University of California, San Diego
  • Jaguar: 8,000,000 hours

Fluctuation Spectra and Anomalous Heating in Magnetized Plasma Turbulence

  • PI: William Dorland, University of Maryland
  • Jaguar: 4,000,000 hours

Gyrokinetic Steady State Transport Simulations

  • PI: Jeff Candy, General Atomics
  • Jaguar: 1,500,000 hours

High-Power Electromagnetic Wave Heating in the ITER Burning Plasma

  • PI: 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

  • PI: Thomas Schulthess, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Jaguar: 10,000,000 hours

Electronic, Lattice, and Mechanical Properties of Novel Nano-Structured Bulk Materials

  • PI: Jihui Yang, GM R&D Center
  • Jaguar : 10,000,000 hours

Development and Correlations of Large-Scale Computational Tools for Flight Vehicles

  • PI: Moeljo Hong, The Boeing Company
  • Jaguar: 100,000 hours
  • Phoenix: 300,000 hours

Bose-Einstein Condensation vs. Quantum Localization in Quantum Magnets

  • PI: Tommaso Roscilde, Max-Planck Gesellschaft
  • Jaguar: 1,200,000 hours

Linear-Scale Electronic Structure Calculations for Nanostructures

  • PI: Lin-Wang Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Jaguar: 2,100,000 hours

Physics

Computational Nuclear Structure

  • PI: David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Jaguar: 7,500,000 processor hours

Petascale Computing for Terascale Particle Accelerator: International Linear Collider Design and Modeling

  • PI: Lie-Quan Lee, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  • Jaguar: 4,500,000 processor hours

Lattice QCD

  • PI: 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

  • PI: Michael Pindzola, Auburn University
  • Phoenix: 2,000,000 processor hours

Modeling Heliospheric Phenomena with an Adaptive, MHD-Boltzmann Code

  • PI: Nikolai Pogorelov, University of California, Riverside
  • Jaguar: 850,000 hours