Current Awards
Congratulations to our 2023-2024 Awardees.
2023-2024 ALCC Factsheets
ALCC awards support scientists from industry, academia and national laboratories advancing scientific and technological research in DOE mission areas including: Biophysics, Energy Efficiency in Aerospace and Combustion technologies, Fusion Energy, Geosciences, High Energy Physics, Materials Sciences, Nuclear Engineering, and Nuclear Physics.
Fikret Aydin (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- AI-Driven Multiscale Investigation of RAS-RAF Activation Lifecycle
- 800,000 node-hours on Frontier
Thomas Blum (University of Connecticut)
- Hadronic contributions to the muon g-2 from lattice QCD
- 3,283,000 node-hours on Frontier
- 5,000 node-hours on Polaris
Igor Bolotnov (North Carolina State University)
- Two-phase flow interface capturing simulations
- 200,000 node-hours on Theta
- 300,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Jacqueline Chen (Sandia National Laboratories)
- Hydrogen for Carbon-Free Low Emissions Power Generation
- 1,150,000 node-hours on Frontier
William Collins (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley)
- Huge Ensembles of Weather Extremes using the Fourier Forecasting Neural Network
- 219,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
Martha Constantinou (Temple University)
- Investigations of proton tomography: Chiral-odd GPDs
- 390,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Eugene DePrince (Florida State University)
- Relativistic Quantum Dynamics in the Non-Equilibrium Regime
- 700,000 node-hours on Theta
Frederico Fiuza (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
- Energy partition and particle acceleration in laser-driven laboratory magnetized shocks
- 300,000 node-hours on Theta
- 150,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Manaure Francisquez (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
- Earlier and cheaper fusion energy with stabilized magnetic mirrors
- 93,000 node-hours on Perlmutter GPU
Giulia Galli (University of Chicago)
- Large scale simulations of materials for quantum information science
- 400,000 node-hours on Theta
- 200,000 node-hours on Polaris
- 200,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
- 200,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
Vikram Gavini (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
- First-principles prediction of solute energetics at extended defects in Mg ternary alloys
- 210,000 node-hours on Frontier
Feliciano Giustino (The University of Texas at Austin)
- Computational design of novel semiconductors for power and energy applications
- 100,000 node-hours on Aurora
Heidi Hanson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- Privacy enabled tumor classification for near real time population health analytics
- 140,000 node-hours on Frontier
Dirk Hufnagel (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
- Using GPU to reconstruct LHC collisions recorded with the CMS detector
- 20,000 node-hours on Aurora
- 50,000 node-hours on Polaris
Sara Isbill (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- Informing Forensics Investigations of Nuclear Materials
- 500,000 node-hours on Frontier
Wei Jiang (Argonne National Laboratory)
- Microscopic Insight into transport properties of Li-battery electrolytes
- 540,000 node-hours on Theta
- 170,000 node-hours on Polaris
Christopher Kelly (Computational Science Initiative, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
- Continuum Limit Lattice Calculation of Direct CP-violation in Kaon Decays
- 135,000 node-hours on Polaris
- 0 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Po-Lun Ma (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
- Learning Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Across Scales
- 384,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Ravi Madduri (Argonne National Laboratory)
- Scaling Genomic Variant callers to Leadership-class systems: A collaboration between VA-MVP and DOE
- 210,000 node-hours on Aurora
Gerald Meehl (NCAR)
- E3SMv2-Seasonal-to-Multiyear Large Ensemble (SMYLE)
- 300,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Elia Merzari (Pennsylvania State University)
- High-Fidelity Flow Data for Multiscale Bridging: Toward Industry Adoption
- 300,000 node-hours on Frontier
Parviz Moin (Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University)
- Predicting performance degradation from rough surfaces using LES
- 1,000,000 node-hours on Frontier
Jordan Musser (National Energy Technology Laboratory)
- Machine Learning-Enhanced Multiphase CFD for Carbon Capture Modeling
- 100,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
Ivan Oleynik (University of South Florida)
- High Energy Density Physics of Inertial Confinement Fusion Ablator Materials
- 1,500,000 node-hours on Frontier
- 500,000 node-hours on Aurora
Jonathan Owens (GE Global Research)
- Atomic-scale design and characterization of sorbents for carbon capture
- 200,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
Jonathan Ozik (Argonne National Laboratory)
- Probabilistic Comparative Modeling of Colorectal Cancer Screening Strategies
- 150,000 node-hours on Theta
- 10,000 node-hours on Polaris
- 100,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Bruce Perry (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
- High-fidelity combustor simulations to enable drop-in sustainable aviation fuels
- 320,000 node-hours on Frontier
Peter Petreczky (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
- Heavy quarks in QGP: lattice QCD inputs for sPHENIX and LHC
- 943,000 node-hours on Frontier
Stephan Priebe (GE Research)
- High-fidelity Simulations of Turbulence and SBLI in Transonic Fan Blades
- 290,000 node-hours on Frontier
Igor Rakhno (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
- Optimization studies for intensity frontier projects DUNE-LBNF, Mu2e and PIP-II
- 61,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
- 0 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
Dillon Shaver (Argonne National Laboratory)
- Accelerating Deployment of Next-Generation Nuclear Power Using High-Fidelity CFD
- 200,000 node-hours on Aurora
- 200,000 node-hours on Theta
- 100,000 node-hours on Polaris
Abhishek Singharoy (Arizona State University)
- Integrative rate-kinetics modeling of diffusive limits to energy harvesting in bioenergetic membranes
- 810,000 node-hours on Frontier
- 50,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
Michael Sprague (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
- Grand-challenge predictive wind farm simulations
- 3,700,000 node-hours on Frontier
Aidan Thompson (Sandia National Laboratories)
- Quantum accurate large-scale atomistic simulations of advanced fusion reactor materials
- 500,000 node-hours on Frontier
- 600,000 node-hours on Aurora
- 250,000 node-hours on Polaris
- 250,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
David Trebotich (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
- Simulation of Flow and Transport in Desalination Systems
- 100,000 node-hours on Frontier
Jean-Luc Vay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
- Probing strong-field QED with Doppler-boosted lasers
- 1,000,000 node-hours on Frontier
Lucas Wagner (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- QMC-HAMM: High accuracy many-body data for multiscale models
- 65,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Yiqi Yu (Argonne National laboratory)
- Large Eddy Simulation on flow and heat transfer behavior in Involute Plate Research Reactor Supporting the Needs of the Materials Management and Minimization (M3) Reactor Conversion Program
- 510,000 node-hours on Theta
Yong Zhao (Argonne National Laboratory)
- 3D Transverse Spin Structure of the Proton: Probing Time-Reversal Symmetry
- 1,570,000 node-hours on Frontier