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-fidelity gyrokinetic simulation of tokamak and ITER edge physics
Current PI: Choong-Seock Chang, Princeton University
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 100,000,000
Physics
Hadron structure from Lattice QCD
Current PI: Konstantinos Orginos, College of William & Mary
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 100,000,000
Physics
Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions
Current PI: Gaute Hagen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 80,000,000
Physics
Approaching Exascale Models of Astrophysical Explosions
Current PI: Michael Zingale, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 40,000,000
Physics
Computational Studies of Spin-Fluctuation Fingerprints in Cuprates
Current PI: Thomas Maier, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 45,000,000
Physics
The Spectrum and Properties of Exotic Mesons in Quantum Chromodynamics
Current PI: Robert Edwards, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 100,000,000
Physics
Lattice QCD
Current PI: Robert Edwards, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 100,000,000
Physics
Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions
Current PI: James Vary, Iowa State University
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 90,000,000
Physics
Revealing the Physics of Galactic Winds with Petascale GPU Simulations
Current PI: Brant Robertson, University of California - Santa Cruz
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 46,000,000
Physics
Parton Distribution Functions From Lattice QCD
Current PI: Constantia Alexandrou, University of Cyprus
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 50,000,000
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
Extreme-scale Simulations for Multi-Wavelength Cosmology Investigations
Current PI: Katrin Heitmann, Argonne National Laboratory
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 10,000,000
Physics
Lattice QCD Equation of State for Moderately Large Baryon Densities: stretching the limits
Current PI: Swagato Mukherjee, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 10,000,000
