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SciDAC Projects at NERSCGlobal Climate Change ProjectsModeling the Earth SystemCreating a first generation Earth system model that fully simulates the coupling between the physical, chemical, and biogeochemical processes in the climate system. SciDAC Principal Investigator: John B. Drake, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Role of Clouds in Global ClimateDesign and testing of a global cloud-resolving model, namely a global atmospheric circulation model with a grid-cell spacing of approximately 3 km, capable of simulating the circulations associated with large convective clouds.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: David A. Randall, Colorado State
University
The Role of Eddy-Tansport in the Thermohaline CirculationThe role of baroclinic eddies in the heat and salt balance of the abyssal ocean.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Paola Cessi, University of California, San
Diego
Decadal Regional Climate StudiesDeveloping stretched grid general circulation models and studying anomalous climate events for variability/predictability.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Michael Fox-Rabinovitz, University
of Maryland
Continuous Dynamic Grid Adaptation in a Global Atmospheric ModelDeveloping continuous dynamic grid adaptation to cluster grid points in targeted regions of interest.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: William Gutowski, Iowa State
University
Collaborative Design and Development of the Community Climate System Model for Terascale ComputersOngoing development of CCSM, adding components and couplers, and porting to new computer architectures. SciDAC Principal Investigator: Phil Jones, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Towards the Prediction of Decadal to Multi-Century Processes in a High-Throughput Climate System ModelStudying the interaction of climate and the land biosphere in mid-latitude decadal variability. SciDAC Principal Investigator: Zhengyu Liu, University of Wisconsin
Development of an Atmospheric Climate Model with Self-Adapting Grid and PhysicsThe project will develop an atmospheric climate model that self-adjusts the grid resolution and the complexity of the physical parameterizations to actual atmospheric flow conditions.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Joyce Penner, University of Michigan
Fusion Energy ProjectsPetaflops for GigawattsThis project will provide a multi-physics, parallel framework application, FACETS, which will enable whole-device modeling for the U.S. fusion program, and provide the modeling infrastructure needed for ITER, the next step fusion confinement device. SciDAC Principal Investigator: John R. Cary, Tech-X Corporation
Simulation of Wave Interactions with MagnetohydrodynamicsCoupling radio-frequency waves (an essential plasma control technique) with the magnetohydrodynamics of the plasma. SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Paul Bonoli, MIT
Center for Plasma Edge SimulationDeveloping a new integrated predictive plasma edge simulation package applicable to next generation experiments. SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Choong-Seock Chang, Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences
Center for Gyrokinetic Particle Simulations of Turbulent Transport in Burning PlasmasSimulating of turbulent transport to investigate plasma confinement properties. SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Wei-li Lee, Princeton Plasma
Physics Laboratory
Center for Extended Magnetohydrodynamic ModelingAssessing the mechanisms that lead to disruptive and other stability limits in present and next generation fusion devices. SciDAC Principal Investigator: Steve Jardin, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Materials and Chemistry ProjectsQuantum Simulations of Materials and NanostructuresThis project addresses a grand challenge in materials science and chemistry: predict and design molecular and materials properties with controllable accuracy from first principles.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Giulia Galli, University of
California, Davis
A Computational Facility for Reacting Flow SciencePredicting chemical reactions and their interactions with fluid flow.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Habib N. Najm, Sandia National
Laboratories
Terascale High-Fidelity Simulations of Turbulent Combustion with Detailed ChemistryDeveloping high fidelity simulations of turbulent reactive flow.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Hong G. Im, University of
Michigan
Advanced Software for the Calculation of Thermochemistry, Kinetics, and DynamicsDeveloping reliable simulations of thermochemistry, kinetics, and dynamics for large molecular systems SciDAC Principal Investigator: Ron Shepard, Argonne National Laboratory
Predicting the Electronic Properties of 3D, Million-Atom Semiconductor Nanostructure ArchitecturesUsing an atomistic approach and single-particle many-body-techniques that are readily scalable to study nanostructures with millions of atoms. SciDAC Principal Investigator: Alex Zunger, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Physics ProjectsBuilding a Universal Nuclear Energy Density FunctionalA comprehensive and unified description of nuclei and their reactions, grounded in the fundamental interactions between the constituent nucleons.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: George F. Bertsch, University of
Washington
When Good Stars Go BangThe Computational Astrophysics Consortium: studying the causes and effects of Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Nucleosynthesis.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Stan Woosley, University of
California at Santa Cruz
Computational Science: Here, There, and EverywhereStimulating new discoveries by providing scientists with effective and dependable access to a petascale distributed computational facility
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Miron Livny, University of
Wisconsin
Advanced Computing for 21st Century Accelerator Science and TechnologyA new generation of accelerator simulation codes will help us to use existing accelerators more efficiently and will strongly impact the design, technology and cost of future accelerators. SciDAC Principal Investigator: Robert Ryne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pointing the Way for Accelerator Science: The Community Petascale Project for Accelerator Science and Simulation (ComPASS)Developing a comprehensive computational infrastructure for accelerator modeling and optimization SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Panagiotis Spentzouris, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Centers for Enabling TechnologiesVisualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies (VACET)Focuses on the creation and deployment of scientific visualization and analytics software technology to increase scientific productivity and create new opportunities for scientific insight. SciDAC Principal Investigator: E. Wes Bethel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Advancing Science via Applied MathematicsApplied Partial Differential Equations to develop simulation tools for solving multi-scale and multi-physics problems> SciDAC Principal Investigator: Phillip Colella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Towards optimal petascale simulationsDevelopment, testing, and dissemination of solver software, especially for systems governed by partial differential equations. SciDAC Principal Investigator: David E. Keyes, Columbia University
Center for Scalable Application Development Software for Advanced ArchitecturesSoftware tools for increasing the productivity of scientific application development on high-end computer systems: multi-core compilers, Open64 compiler infrastructure, information exchange on parallel programming models, runtime libraries, instrumentation and tools. SciDAC Principal Investigator: Ken Kennedy, Rice University
SciDAC InstitutesPerformance Engineering ResearchEnhancing the performance of SciDAC applications on petascale systems. SciDAC Principal Investigator: Robert F. Lucas, Robert F. Lucas
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