The 55 projects in the 2008 supercomputing allocations announced under DOE’s INCITE program were together awarded 265 million processor-hours at DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) supercomputer facilities. Note that several projects have European participants, summarized below.
The INCITE awards will help advance research in accelerator physics, astrophysics, chemical sciences, climate research, computer science, engineering physics, environmental science, fusion energy, life sciences, materials science, nuclear physics, and nuclear engineering. Applications range from designing quieter cars to improving commercial aircraft design, from developing nanomaterials to simulating earthquakes.
Projects are awarded time at DOE’s Leadership Computing Facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, as well as the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and the Molecular Science Computing Facility at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington.
University researchers receiving 2008 INCITE awards are from Caltech; Colorado State University; Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon; Georgetown University; New York University; Northwestern University; Purdue University; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Stanford University; the University of Arizona; the University of California campuses at Davis, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego and Santa Cruz; the University of Chicago; University College London; the University of Colorado; the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the University of Pennsylvania; the University of Rochester; the University of Washington; and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
DOE scientists receiving awards conduct research at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge and Pacific Northwest National Laboratories as well as National Energy Technology Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
Awards were also made to researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology; the Southern California Earthquake Center, CERFACS, the European Center for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation in France, and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
Industries receiving INCITE awards are: Corning Inc., Gene Network Sciences, General Atomics, General Motors, Pratt and Whitney, Procter and Gamble, and the Boeing Co.
DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences for the nation and ensures US leadership across a broad range of scientific disciplines.
URL:
www.sc.doe.gov/ascr/incite
www.sc.doe.gov/ascr/incite/2008INCITEFactsheets.pdf
