About Us

CCS: Institutes

The CCS Institutes are an outreach activity, providing an intellectual home and computational infrastructure for community building. The Institutes share a number of common goals:

• Extended simulations in areas of importance to DOE
• Repositories of community codes optimized for high end computing
• A testbed for evaluations of new computer hardware and application of innovative software engineering techniques
• Pushing hardware beyond original vendor design specifications to achieve science missions
• Workshops to enhance researcher skills and train the next generation of modelers
• Increased interactions between research scientists and computer scientists and mathematicians
• Collaborations to interpret and improve simulation results and to strengthen links between predictive modeling and experimental research

• Computational Biology Institute
  

  Mission: To develop and provide innovative computational biology and computing methods, algorithms, systsems and infrastructure that will broaden scientific understanding of the molecular interactions that are the basis of microbial and metazoan systems.

• Climate and Carbon Research Institute
  

  Mission: To advance computational climate science toward understanding how the Earth's climate responds to physical, chemical, and biological changes produced by global alterations of the atmosphere, ocean, and land.

• Fusion Simulation Institute
  

  Mission: To provide a focus for collaborations between researchers developing the fundamental plasma theory and computational base needed to understand and predict plasma behavior in fusion devices.

• Materials Research Institute
  

  Mission: To build and maintain a community of leading computational materials scientists conducting research aligned with priorities of the Computational Materials Science Network (CMSN) and the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) and to integrate the community into the development and application of the high performance computing infrastructure of the CCS.

• Computational Center for Industrial Innovation
  

  Mission: To provide support and assistance to U.S. industry to smooth its path into high-performance computing. ORNL-industry collaborations will address challenging, industrially relevant problems--problems that have previously eluded solution because of insufficient computational power or inadequate software availability.