The physical world is governed by laws describing how matter and energy interact at scales ranging from the smallest particles to the entire universe. Physicists are using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s enormous computing power to reveal the nature of matter at its most elusive—from the behavior of the quarks, electrons, and other fundamental particles that make up atoms and everything we know, to the workings of the molecules made up of those atoms.
Current Active Physics Projects
Physics
High-performance computation for fusion energy wall erosion diagnostics
Current PI: Stuart Loch, Auburn University
Allocation Source:
Allocation Hours: 0
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Reionization and its Impact on the Local Universe: Witnessing our own Cosmic Dawn
Current PI: Pierre Ocvirk, Universite de Strasbourg, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 5,000
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PLASM-IN-SILICO: HPC modeling of high-intensity laser-solid interaction
Current PI: Jean-Luc Vay, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 5,000
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Lattice QCD
Current PI: Andreas Kronfeld, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 5,000
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Decoding the physics of the intergalactic medium
Current PI: Zarija Lukic, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 5,000
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Extending the Discovery Space of Cosmological Surveys
Current PI: Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 5,000
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Abacus2020: N-body Simulations for Precision Cosmology with DESI
Current PI: Daniel Eisenstein, Harvard University
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 5,000
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Nuclear Physics from the Standard Model
Current PI: William Detmold, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 5,000
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Hadron Structure from Lattice QCD
Current PI: Konstantinos Orginos, College of William & Mary
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 5,000
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Energetics of Collisionless Plasmas in the Laboratory and Space
Current PI: William Fox, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Allocation Source: DOE ALCC PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 400,000
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Hot-dense Lattice QCD for RHIC and LHC
Current PI: Swagato Mukherjee, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Allocation Source: DOE ALCC PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 400,000
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The Structure and Interactions of Nucleons from the Standard Model
Current PI: Andre Walker-Loud, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 500,000
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Simulating Neutron Star Binary Merger Remnant Disks and Tilted Thin Disk
Current PI: Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Northwestern University
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 500,000
Physics
Long term 3D simulations of core-collapse supernovae
Current PI: William Hix, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 5,000
Physics
Integrated Simulation of Energetic Particles in Burning Plasmas
Current PI: Zhihong Lin, University of California - Irvine
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 5,000
Physics
Nuclear Matter Dynamics in Real Time and the Heaviest Elements in Nature
Current PI: Aurel Bulgac, University of Washington
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 5,000
Physics
Search for New Physics using Precision Tests of the Standard Model
Current PI: Norman Christ, Columbia University in the City of New York
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 5,000
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Scaling LHC Proton-Proton Collision Simulations
Current PI: Eric Lancon, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Allocation Source: DOE ALCC PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 60,000
Physics
High-fidelity Gyrokinetic Simulation of Tokamak and ITER Edge Physics
Current PI: Choong-Seock Chang, Princeton University
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 5,000
Physics
Ab-initio Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions
Current PI: Gaute Hagen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 550,000
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Approaching Exascale Models of Astrophysical Explosions
Current PI: Michael Zingale, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 5,000
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Computational Studies of Correlated Quantum Materials
Current PI: Thomas Maier, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 900,000
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The Real World of Real Glue
Current PI: Robert Edwards, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 5,000
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Lattice QCD
Current PI: Robert Edwards, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 2,350,000
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Parton Distribution Functions From Lattice QCD
Current PI: Constantia Alexandrou, University of Cyprus
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 2,350,000
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Large scale deep neural network optimization for neutrino physics
Current PI: Gabriel Perdue, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 58,000,000
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Simulating particle interactions and the resulting detector response at the LHC and Fermilab
Current PI: John Childers, Argonne National Laboratory
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 80,000,000
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Nuclear Fission: From More Phenomenology and Adjusted Parameters to More Fundamental Theory and Increased Predictive Power
Current PI: Aurel Bulgac, University of Washington
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 80,000,000
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Emulating the Universe
Current PI: Katrin Heitmann, Argonne National Laboratory
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 5,000
Physics
Phase Boundary of Baryon-rich QCD Matter
Current PI: Swagato Mukherjee, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 5,000
