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FollowHigh-Impact Science at Scale Program
NERSC's High-Impact Science at Scale program provides competitively selected projects an allocation of time to use NERSC's unique capabilities to deliver high-impact science. Selected projects use NERSC resources at scale to investigate key science problems that they would not otherwise be able to address. Teams were selected following Calls for Proposals, in which responses were reviewed for the ability to scale well on Cori KNL nodes, potential to deliver a significant science result, a reasonable ratio of feasibility to risk, and the appropriateness of approach and resources requested.
2022 Projects
The High-Impact Science at Scale program for 2022 is devoted to QIS@Perlmutter.
2021 Projects
The High-Impact Science program for 2021 continued support for COVID-19-related research and exascale application development related to the Exascale Computing Project.
2020 Projects
The High-Impact Science program for 2020 was dedicated to COVID-19-related research.
2019 Projects
| Principal Investigator | Organization | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| David Trebotich | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Multiphase Flow in Shale |
| Jun Li | UC San Diego | Hot electron scaling and energy coupling in nonlinear laser plasma interactions |
| Yu Feng | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Simulating the DESI, LSST and CMB-S4 Universe |
| Myongkyu Lee | Sandia National Laboratory | DSMC for nonequilibrium thermal and chemical reaction |
| Jacqueline Chen | Sandia National Laboratory | Direct Numerical Simulation of Multi-Injection Mixing and Combustion at Compression Ignition Engine Conditions |
| Lorenzo Sironi | Columbia University | The seeds of a magnetic Universe |
| Ben Kirtman | University of Miami | E3SM decadal prediction experiment |
| Vikram Gavini | University of Michigan | Electronic structure studies on energetics of pyramidal dislocations in Mg |
| Martin White | UC Berkeley | Simulating the DESI, LSST and the CMB-S4 Universe |
| Ivan Oleynik | University of South Florida | Predictive Simulations of Dynamic Compression of Carbon Materials |
| Mohammad-Reza Alam | UC Berkeley | Wave Carpet Shape Optimization using Genetic Algorithm and Neural Network |
| David Schlegel | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Producing the Final Data Release of the DESI imaging Legacy Survey |
2018 Projects
| Principal Investigator | Organization | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Edward Baron | U. Oklahoma | Scaling and I/O in the Largest 3D Radiative Transfer Calculation of the Solar Photosphere and Chromosphere |
| Gil Compo | U. Colorado / CIRES | Ocean Atmosphere Reanalyses for Climate Applications (OARCA) 1815-2017 |
| Yu Feng | Berkeley Lab | Simulating the DESI, LSST and CMB-S4 Universe |
| Fan Guo | Los Alamos Lab | 3D Kinetic Simulations of Nonthermal Particle Acceleration in Flaring Magnetic Reconnection |
| Yanfei Jiang | UC Santa Barbara | Global 3D Radiation Hydrodynamic Simulations of Mass Loss from Wolf-Rayet Stars |
| Valentin Karasev | U. Rochester | Density functional theory calculations of the transport properties in the high energy density regime |
| Lai-Yung Ruby Leung | Pacific NW National Lab | Ultra-high resolution atmospheric simulations of water cycle processes and extremes |
| Jun Li | UC San Diego | Hot electron scaling and energy coupling in nonlinear laser plasma interactions |
| Noa Marom | Carnegie Mellon | Computational discovery of singlet fission materials |
| Noa Marom | Carnegie Mellon | Data driven discovery of singlet fission materials |
| Alan Stanier | Los Alamos Lab | Probing the physics of magnetic reconnection: from fusion energy to space plasmas |
| Ben Timmermans | Berkeley Lab | Multi-resolution surrogate modeling for simulated climate extremes and event attribution studies |
| David Trebotich | Berkeley Lab | Chombo-crunch: extreme scale simulation of flow and transport in heterogeneous media |
| Xiao Wang | Harvard Medical School | Consensus Equilibrium Method for Extreme-Scale CT Image Reconstruction |
2017 Projects
The following projects were awarded time through the program, which allocated a total of about 450 million NERSC Hours.
| Principal Investigator | Organization | Project Title | Maximum Job Scale | NERSC Hours Used in 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christine Goulet | USC Earthquake Center | M8 Earthquake on the San Andreas Fault | (deferred to 2018) | (deferred to 2018) |
| Katrin Heitmann | Argonne National Laboratory | Knowhere (Cosmology) | 6,144 nodes (418 K cores) |
57 million |
| Frithjof Karsch | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Net strangeness and net electric charge fluctuations in strong-interacting matter | 2,947 nodes (200 K cores) |
42 million |
| Steven Louie | UC Berkeley | Ab initio quasiparticle and optical properties of materials at scale |
6,656 nodes |
57 million |
| Zarija Lukic | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Physical model of the intergalactic medium | 1,024 nodes (70 K cores) |
51 million |
| Adam Stanier | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Probing the physics of magnetic reconnection – from fusion energy to space plasmas | 2,048 nodes (139 K cores) |
64 million |
| David Trebotich | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Chombo-Crunch: Extreme scale simulation of flow and transport in heterogeneous media | 8,400 nodes (571 K cores) |
143 million |
| Jean-Luc Vay | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | High-resolution 3D studies of asymmetric effects in the BELLA plasma accelerator experiments | 1,274 nodes (87 K cores) |
28 million |
