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Climate Change
Fusion Energy
Materials and Chemistry
Physics
SciDAC Centers
SciDAC Institutes
SciDAC Projects at NERSC
Global Climate Change Projects
Modeling the Earth System
Creating 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
- NERSC PI: Philip Cameron-Smith, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory
Repository m411 - Interaction of Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols with
Climate
- NERSC PI: John Drake, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Repository m659 - A Scalable and Extensible Earth System Model for Climate Change
Science
- NERSC PI: Jean-Francois Lamarque, National Center for
Atmospheric Research
Repository m330 - Simulation of 20th-century and 21st-century climate with interactive
chemistry in CAM3: identifying the role of climate in driving observed trends and in
affecting air quality
The Role of Clouds in Global Climate
Design 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
Repository m328 - Global cloud modeling
The Role of Eddy-Tansport in the Thermohaline Circulation
The 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
Repository m699 - The role of eddies in the
maintenance of deep stratification and mean overturning circulation
Decadal Regional Climate Studies
Developing stretched grid general circulation models and studying anomalous climate events for variability/predictability.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Michael Fox-Rabinovitz, University
of Maryland
Repository m527 - Decadal Climate Studies with Enhanced Variable and Uniform
Resolution GCMs Using Advanced Numerical Techniques
Continuous Dynamic Grid Adaptation in a Global Atmospheric Model
Developing continuous dynamic grid adaptation to cluster grid points in targeted regions of interest.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: William Gutowski, Iowa State
University
Repository m612 - Continuous Dynamic Grid
Adaptation in a Global Atmospheric Model
Collaborative Design and Development of the Community Climate System Model for Terascale Computers
Ongoing development of CCSM, adding components and couplers, and porting to new computer architectures.
SciDAC Principal Investigator: Phil Jones, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- NERSC PI: Chris Ding, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Repository mp153 - Development of Community Climate System Model
Towards the Prediction of Decadal to Multi-Century Processes in a High-Throughput Climate System Model
Studying the interaction of climate and the land biosphere in mid-latitude decadal variability.
SciDAC Principal Investigator: Zhengyu Liu, University of Wisconsin
- NERSC PI: Pat Behling, University of Wisconson
Repository m285 - Towards the prediction of
decadal to mult-century processes in a high-throughput climate system model
Development of an Atmospheric Climate Model with Self-Adapting Grid and Physics
The 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
Repository mp231 - Three-dimensional Global
Atmospheric Aerosol and Chemistry Modeling
Fusion Energy Projects
Petaflops for Gigawatts
This 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
- NERSC PI: Scott Kruger, Tech-X Corporation
Repository m681 - Fusion Application for Core-Edge Transport Simulations
Simulation of Wave Interactions with Magnetohydrodynamics
Coupling radio-frequency waves (an essential plasma control technique) with the magnetohydrodynamics of the plasma.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Paul Bonoli, MIT
Repository m77 - Center for Simulation of Wave-Plasma Interactions
Center for Plasma Edge Simulation
Developing 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
Repository m499 - Center for Plasma Edge Simulation
Center for Gyrokinetic Particle Simulations of Turbulent Transport in Burning Plasmas
Simulating of turbulent transport to investigate plasma confinement properties.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Wei-li Lee, Princeton Plasma
Physics Laboratory
Repository mp19 - Center for Gyrokinetic Particle Simulations of Turbulent
Transport in Burning Plasmas and Multiscale Gyrokinetics
Center for Extended Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling
Assessing 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
- NERSC PI: Eric Held, Utah State University
Repository m127 - Application of Parallel Kinetic Closures in NIMROD for
Fusion Plasma Simulations
- NERSC PI: Steve Jardin, Princeton Plasma
Physics Laboratory
Repository mp288 - 3D Extended MHD simulation of fusion plasmas
- NERSC PI: Dalton Schnack, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Repository mp21 - NIMROD Project: Extended Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling for
Fusion Experiments
NIMROD HDF5 VisIt
Plugin
Materials and Chemistry Projects
Quantum Simulations of Materials and Nanostructures
This 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
Repository m542 - First principles simulations of nanostructures
A Computational Facility for Reacting Flow Science
Predicting chemical reactions and their interactions with fluid flow.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Habib N. Najm, Sandia National
Laboratories
Repository m401 - A Computational Facility for Reacting Flow Science
Terascale High-Fidelity Simulations of Turbulent Combustion with Detailed Chemistry
Developing high fidelity simulations of turbulent reactive flow.
SciDAC and NERSC Principal Investigator: Hong G. Im, University of
Michigan
Repository m217 - High-Fidelity Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent
Combustion - Compression Ignition under HCCI Conditions and NOx Formation in
Turbulent Jet Flames
Advanced Software for the Calculation of Thermochemistry, Kinetics, and Dynamics
Developing reliable simulations of thermochemistry, kinetics, and dynamics for large molecular systems
SciDAC Principal Investigator: Ron Shepard, Argonne National Laboratory
- NERSC PI: Charles Harris, University of California at berkeley
Repository m399 - Computational
Modeling and Simulation of Organometallic Complexes in Solution
Predicting the Electronic Properties of 3D, Million-Atom Semiconductor Nanostructure Architectures
Using 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
- NERSC PI: Andrew Canning, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Repository m126 - Mathematical/Computational Methods for Electronic Structure
Codes in Nanoscience
- NERSC PI: Lin-Wang Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Repository mp304 - Large scale nanostructure electronic structure
calculations
- NERSC PI: Alex Zunger, National Renewable
Energy Laboratory
Repository m346 - Predicting the electronic Properties of 3D, Milion-Atom
Semiconductor Nanostructure Architectures
Physics Projects
Building a Universal Nuclear Energy Density Functional
A 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
Repository m308 - Low-Energy Nuclear Physics National HPC Initiative:
Building a Universal Nuclear Energy Density Functional
When Good Stars Go Bang
The 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
Repository m106 - Computational Astrophysics Consortium
Visualizations of the
project's simulations
Computational Science: Here, There, and Everywhere
Stimulating 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
Repositories m670 & osg Extending the Open Science Grid
Advanced Computing for 21st Century Accelerator Science and Technology
A 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
- NERSC PI: Thomas Katsouleas, University of Southern California
Repository mp275 - Program for Plasma-Based Concepts for Future High-Energy
Accelerators - NERSC PI: Robert Ryne, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory
Repository gc2 - Accelerator Community Code Development and Discovery Project
Particle Viewer
Beam dynamics
particle tracking images
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
Repository m778 - Community Petascale Project for Accelerator Science and Simulation
Centers for Enabling Technologies
Visualization 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
- NERSC PI: Wes Bethel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Repository m636 - SciDAC2 Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling
Technologies
- NERSC PI: Hank Childs, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory
Repository visit - VisIt
Advancing Science via Applied Mathematics
Applied Partial Differential Equations to develop simulation tools for solving multi-scale and multi-physics problems>
SciDAC Principal Investigator: Phillip Colella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- NERSC PI: John Bell, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Repository mp111 - Applied Partial Differential Equations Center
Towards optimal petascale simulations
Development, testing, and dissemination of solver software, especially for systems governed by partial differential equations.
SciDAC Principal Investigator: David E. Keyes, Columbia University
- NERSC PI: James Demmel, University of California at Berkeley
Repository mp156 - Linear Algebra Algorithms on High Performance
Computers
- NERSC PI: David Keyes, Columbia University
Repository m125 - Towards Optimal Petascale Simulations
- NERSC PI: Esmond Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Repository mp127 - High Performance Sparse Matrix Algorithms
Center for Scalable Application Development Software for Advanced Architectures
Software 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
- NERSC PI: Katherine Yelick, University of California at Berkeley
Repository m683 - Programming Models and Runtime Support for Scalable
Parallel Computing
SciDAC Institutes
Performance Engineering Research
Enhancing the performance of SciDAC applications on petascale systems.
SciDAC Principal Investigator: Robert F. Lucas, Robert F. Lucas
- NERSC PI: David Bailey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Repository m88 - The Performance Engineering Research Institute
