2005 INCITE Projects

In December 2004, the DOE Office of Science selected three computational science projects to receive a total of 6.5 million hours of supercomputing time at the NERSC Center. The projects are expected to significantly advance our understanding of ways to reduce pollution, to gain greater insight into how stars and solar systems form, and advance our knowledge about how proteins express genetic information.

Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) is a competitive program designed to support a small number of computationally intensive, large-scale research projects that can make high-impact scientific advances through the use of a substantial allocation of computer time and data storage at the NERSC Center. The INCITE program specifically encourages proposals from universities and other research institutions.

The three projects selected by the INCITE review team are:

• Jacqueline Chen: Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Non-premixed Combustion - Fundamental Insights towards Predictive Modeling
• Fausto Cattaneo: Magneto-rotational instability and turbulent angular momentum transport
• Valerie Daggett: Molecular Dynameomics

2005 NERSC Annual Report articles on INCITE projects:

• Combustion up close: Direct numerical simulations reveal small-scale structures and processes that experiments cannot measure
• Magnetic disks in space: A new generation of simulations and experiments aim to pinpoint the origins of instability in accretion disks
• Proteins in motion: Biochemists are systematically simulating the unfolding pathways of all known protein folds, hoping to discover the general principles of protein folding