National Energy
Research Scientific Computing Center
2002 Annual Report
This
work was supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office
of Advanced Scientific Computing Research of the U.S. Department
of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC 03-76SF00098.
LBNL-51979, January 2003
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Table
of Contents
Director's Perspective
Science
Highlights
Science-of-Scale
Projects
DOE
Climate Change Prediction Program
High-Resolution
Global Coupled Ocean/Sea Ice Modeling
Supernova
Explosions and Cosmology
Black Hole Merger Simulations SciDAC
Applied
Partial Differential Equations
DOE
Science Grid
Performance
Evaluation Research Center
Terascale
Optimal PDE Simulations
Advanced
Methods for Electronic Structure
Robert
Harrison Receives 2002 Sidney Fernbach Award
Explicitly
Correlated Methods for Computations of Properties to Chemical
Accuracy
Terascale
High-Fidelity Simulations of Turbulent Combustion with Detailed
Chemistry
Collaborative
Design and Development of the Community Climate System Model
for Terascale Computers
Multi-Resolution
Climate Modeling
Center
for Extended Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling
Center
for Magnetic Reconnection Studies
Numerical
Computation of Wave-Plasma Interactions in Multi-Dimensional
Systems
Plasma
Microturbulence Project
Terascale
Atomic Physics for Controlled Fusion Energy
Advanced
Computing for 21st Century Accelerator Science and Technology
Terascale
Supernova Initiative
Basic
Energy Sciences
The Origin of the Anomalous Superconducting Properties
of MgB2
Comparison of Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics
Simulations with Experimental Measurements of Viscosity
Determining the Magnetic Structure of a Superconductor
Simulating the Deposition of Atomic Clusters of
Palladium on a Magnesium Oxide Surface
Magnetic Anisotropy of Iron Nano-Chains Embedded
in Copper
Biological and Environmental Research
Determining
the Structure of a Carcinogenic Heterocyclic Amine
Whole-Genome
Shotgun Assembly and Analysis of the Fugu
rubripes Genome
QM/MM Studies of the Triosephosphate Isomerase-Catalyzed
Reaction
Tropopause
Height As an Indicator of Climate Change
Benjamin
Santer Receives 2002 E. O. Lawrence Award
Cloud
Sensitivity to Black Carbon and Aerosol Concentrations
Fusion Energy Sciences
Stabilization
of Sawteeth in Tokamaks with Toroidal Flows
Predictive
Capability of MHD Stability Limits in Tokamak Discharges
Nonlinear
MHD Dynamics of Tokamak Plasmas on Multiple Time Scales
Simulations
of Heavy Ion Beams in a Gaseous Fusion Target Chamber
Synthesizing
a 4D Beam Particle Distribution from Multiple 2D Views
High Energy and Nuclear Physics
Making
Maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Exact
Calculations of Light Nuclei Using Realistic Interactions
Thermodynamics
with Improved Staggered Quarks
Chiral
Properties of Pseudoscalar Mesons
Lattice
QCD at Finite Isospin Density
Advanced
Scientific Computing Research
A Faster Electronic Structure Calculation Method
for Metals
Large
Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Channel Flows
Streamwise
Vorticity Formation in a Transverse Jet
Comparison
of Experimental and Simulated Mixing Rates
GPSHMEM: Application to Kernel Benchmarks
The NERSC Center
Clients, Sponsors, and Advisors
Allocations
and Policies
User
Survey Results
High-End Systems
System
Upgrades and Expansion
DOE Greenbook
Documents Computational Challenges, Recommendations
A
New Computer Architecture Strategy: The “Blue Planet” Proposal
Computer
Room Expansion
Advanced
Development
Cray
Decommissioning
Comprehensive Scientific Support
Making
Systems Productive for Science
Scientific
Algorithms and Applications
Visualization
Support
Support for Scientific Challenge Teams
Science-of-Scale
and SciDAC Projects
Getting
the Physics out of KamLAND Data
Unified Science Environment (USE)
Establishing
a Grid Infrastructure
Berkeley
Lab Team Wins Third Bandwidth Challenge
Appendix
A: NERSC Policy Board
Appendix B: NERSC Computational
Review Panel
Appendix
C: NERSC Users Group Executive
Committee
Appendix
D: Supercomputing Allocations
Committee
Appendix
E: Office of Advanced Scientific
Computing Research
Appendix
F: Advanced Scientific
Computing Advisory Committee
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