High-Impact Science at Scale on Cori
NERSC's High-Impact Science at Scale program provides competitively selected projects an allocation of time to use Cori's unique capabilities to deliver high-impact science. Selected projects use NERSC resources at scale to investigate key science problems that they would not otherwise be able to address. Teams were selected following a Call for Proposals, in which responses were reviewed for the ability to scale well on Cori KNL nodes, potential to deliver a significant science result, a reasonable ratio of feasibility to risk, and the appropriateness of approach and resources requested.
2020 Projects
The High-Impact Science program for 2020 was dedicated to COVID-19 related research.
2019 Projects
| Principal Investigator | Organization | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| David Trebotich | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Multiphase Flow in Shale |
| Jun Li | UC San Diego | Hot electron scaling and energy coupling in nonlinear laser plasma interactions |
| Yu Feng | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Simulating the DESI, LSST and CMB-S4 Universe |
| Myongkyu Lee | Sandia National Laboratory | DSMC for nonequilibrium thermal and chemical reaction |
| Jacqueline Chen | Sandia National Laboratory | Direct Numerical Simulation of Multi-Injection Mixing and Combustion at Compression Ignition Engine Conditions |
| Lorenzo Sironi | Columbia University | The seeds of a magnetic Universe |
| Ben Kirtman | University of Miami | E3SM decadal prediction experiment |
| Vikram Gavini | University of Michigan | Electronic structure studies on energetics of pyramidal dislocations in Mg |
| Martin White | UC Berkeley | Simulating the DESI, LSST and the CMB-S4 Universe |
| Ivan Oleynik | University of South Florida | Predictive Simulations of Dynamic Compression of Carbon Materials |
| Mohammad-Reza Alam | UC Berkeley | Wave Carpet Shape Optimization using Genetic Algorithm and Neural Network |
| David Schlegel | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Producing the Final Data Release of the DESI imaging Legacy Survey |
2018 Projects
| Principal Investigator | Organization | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Edward Baron | U. Oklahoma | Scaling and I/O in the Largest 3D Radiative Transfer Calculation of the Solar Photosphere and Chromosphere |
| Gil Compo | U. Colorado / CIRES | Ocean Atmosphere Reanalyses for Climate Applications (OARCA) 1815-2017 |
| Yu Feng | Berkeley Lab | Simulating the DESI, LSST and CMB-S4 Universe |
| Fan Guo | Los Alamos Lab | 3D Kinetic Simulations of Nonthermal Particle Acceleration in Flaring Magnetic Reconnection |
| Yanfei Jiang | UC Santa Barbara | Global 3D Radiation Hydrodynamic Simulations of Mass Loss from Wolf-Rayet Stars |
| Valentin Karasev | U. Rochester | Density functional theory calculations of the transport properties in the high energy density regime |
| Lai-Yung Ruby Leung | Pacific NW National Lab | Ultra-high resolution atmospheric simulations of water cycle processes and extremes |
| Jun Li | UC San Diego | Hot electron scaling and energy coupling in nonlinear laser plasma interactions |
| Noa Marom | Carnegie Mellon | Computational discovery of singlet fission materials |
| Noa Marom | Carnegie Mellon | Data driven discovery of singlet fission materials |
| Alan Stanier | Los Alamos Lab | Probing the physics of magnetic reconnection: from fusion energy to space plasmas |
| Ben Timmermans | Berkeley Lab | Multi-resolution surrogate modeling for simulated climate extremes and event attribution studies |
| David Trebotich | Berkeley Lab | Chombo-crunch: extreme scale simulation of flow and transport in heterogeneous media |
| Xiao Wang | Harvard Medical School | Consensus Equilibrium Method for Extreme-Scale CT Image Reconstruction |
2017 Projects
The following projects were awarded time through the program, which allocated a total of about 450 million NERSC Hours.
| Principal Investigator | Organization | Project Title | Maximum Job Scale | NERSC Hours Used in 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christine Goulet | USC Earthquake Center | M8 Earthquake on the San Andreas Fault | (deferred to 2018) | (deferred to 2018) |
| Katrin Heitmann | Argonne National Laboratory | Knowhere (Cosmology) | 6,144 nodes (418 K cores) |
57 million |
| Frithjof Karsch | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Net strangeness and net electric charge fluctuations in strong-interacting matter | 2,947 nodes (200 K cores) |
42 million |
| Steven Louie | UC Berkeley | Ab initio quasiparticle and optical properties of materials at scale |
6,656 nodes |
57 million |
| Zarija Lukic | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Physical model of the intergalactic medium | 1,024 nodes (70 K cores) |
51 million |
| Adam Stanier | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Probing the physics of magnetic reconnection – from fusion energy to space plasmas | 2,048 nodes (139 K cores) |
64 million |
| David Trebotich | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Chombo-Crunch: Extreme scale simulation of flow and transport in heterogeneous media | 8,400 nodes (571 K cores) |
143 million |
| Jean-Luc Vay | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | High-resolution 3D studies of asymmetric effects in the BELLA plasma accelerator experiments | 1,274 nodes (87 K cores) |
28 million |
