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
Hot-dense Lattice QCD for RHIC and LHC
Current PI: Swagato Mukherjee, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Allocation Source:
Allocation Hours: 0
Physics
The proton’s structure and the search for new physics
Current PI: Andre Walker-Loud, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 700,000
Physics
Simulating Neutron Star Binary Merger Remnant Disks and Tilted Thin Disk
Current PI: Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Northwestern University
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 700,000
Physics
Three-dimensional simulations of rotating and non-rotating core-collapse supernova
Current PI: William Hix, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 1,500,000
Physics
Integrated Simulation of Energetic Particles in Burning Plasmas
Current PI: Zhihong Lin, University of California - Irvine
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 1,500,000
Physics
Real-Time Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Nuclear Matter
Current PI: Aurel Bulgac, University of Washington
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 1,500,000
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: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 1,500,000
Physics
New Frontiers for Material Modeling via Machine Learning Techniques with Quantum
Current PI: Dario Alfe, University College London
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 40,000
Physics
Scaling LHC Proton-Proton Collision Simulations in the ATLAS Detector
Current PI: Eric Lancon, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 5,000
Physics
High-fidelity gyrokinetic simulation of tokamak and ITER edge physics
Current PI: Choong-Seock Chang, Princeton University
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 105,000,000
Physics
Hadron structure from Lattice QCD
Current PI: Konstantinos Orginos, College of William & Mary
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 2,350,000
Physics
Ab-initio Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions
Current PI: Gaute Hagen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 1,500,000
Physics
Approaching Exascale Models of Astrophysical Explosions
Current PI: Michael Zingale, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 45,000,000
Physics
Computational Studies of Spin-Fluctuation Fingerprints in Cuprates
Current PI: Thomas Maier, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 36,000,000
Physics
The Real World of Real Glue
Current PI: Robert Edwards, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 96,000,000
Physics
Lattice QCD
Current PI: Robert Edwards, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 2,350,000
Physics
Parton Distribution Functions From Lattice QCD
Current PI: Constantia Alexandrou, University of Cyprus
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 2,350,000
Physics
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
Physics
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
Physics
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
Physics
Emulating the Universe
Current PI: Katrin Heitmann, Argonne National Laboratory
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 40,000,000
Physics
Phase Boundary of Baryon-rich QCD Matter
Current PI: Swagato Mukherjee, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 85,000,000
