Current Awards
Congratulations to our 2024-2025 Awardees.
2024-2025 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.
Alexey Arefiev (UC San Diego)
- Laser-plasma instabilities driven by helical laser beam
- 394,008 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Fikret Aydin (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- AI-Driven Multiscale Investigation of RAS-RAF Activation Lifecycle
- 900,000 node-hours on Frontier
Thomas Blum (University of Connecticut)
- Hadronic contributions to the muon g-2 from lattice QCD
- 3,846,000 node-hours on Frontier,
- 1,000,000 node-hours on Aurora
Peter Caldwell (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Decadal Simulations with the Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model
- 1,600,000 node-hours on Frontier
Jan Michael Carrillo (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- Charged Macromolecules in the Nonequilibrium State
- 425,000 node-hours on Frontier
Jacqueline Chen (Sandia National Laboratories)
- DNS of H2/NG blends towards fuel- and load-flexible industrial heat and power
- 2,100,000 node-hours on Frontier
Margaret S. Cheung (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
- Building Digital Twin of a Model Host-Pathogen System for Enhancing Biopreparedness
- 500,000 node-hours on Frontier,
- 100,000 node-hours on Aurora,
- 100,000 node-hours on Polaris,
- 200,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU,
- 100,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
William Collins (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley)
- Huge Ensembles of Weather Extremes using the Fourier Forecasting Neural Network
- 280,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
Martha Constantinou (Temple University)
- Twist-3 GPDs of the pion and kaon
- 206,400 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Som Dutta (Utah State University)
- DNS of Buoyancy Driven Flows for Developing NN-informed High-fidelity Turbulence Closures
- 300,000 node-hours on Frontier,
- 50,000 node-hours on Aurora,
- 50,000 node-hours on Polaris,
- 200,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Vikram Gavini (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
- Learning exchange-correlation functional in DFT from quantum many-body calculations
- 250,000 node-hours on Frontier
Omar Ghattas (The University of Texas at Austin)
- Real-time extreme-scale inversion and prediction for tsunami early warning
- 100,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
Jens Glaser (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- Continually-Learning Foundation Models for Scientific Imaging
- 710,000 node-hours on Frontier
Mark Gordon (Ames National Laboratory)
- Highly Scalable Ab Initio Simulations of N-Doped Porous Materials for Carbon Capture
- 2,000,000 node-hours on Aurora
Ore Gottlieb (Flatiron Institute)
- Simulating large-scale long-lived neutron star remnants from binary neutron star mergers
- 400,000 node-hours on Aurora
Roelof Groenewald (TAE Technologies Inc.)
- High-fidelity WarpX simulations of stability and operational boundaries of advanced FRCs
- 65,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
Allan Grosvenor (MSBAI — dba Microsurgeonbot Inc.)
- Autonomy for DOE Simulations
- 100,000 node-hours on Frontier
- 30,000 node-hours on Aurora
Rajan Gupta (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- Axial-vector form factors for neutrino-nucleon scattering
- 540,000 node-hours on Frontier
Heidi Hanson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- Developing biopreparedness models informed by heterogeneous data streams 130,000 node-hours on Frontier
Sara Isbill (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- Informing Forensics Investigations of Nuclear Materials
- 200,000 node-hours on Frontier
Daniel Jacobson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- Integrative Systems Biology for Epigenetics in the EPIC BRaVE Project
- 600,000 node-hours on Frontier
Suhas Jain (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- High-fidelity simulations of particle-laden non-equilibrium turbulent flows
- 3,000,000 node-hours on Frontier
Felipe Jornada (Stanford University)
- Predicting heterogeneous photocatalysts using large-scale ab initio calculations
- 140,000 node-hours on Frontier
- 100,000 node-hours on Aurora
Taehun Lee (The City College of New York)
- High-Fidelity Simulations of Helium-Air Mixing in High-Temperature Gas Reactor Cavities
- 115,000 node-hours on Polaris
Jinxun Liu (U.S. Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center)
- Coastal wetland carbon balance of the conterminous U.S.
- 30,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Matthew Long ([C]Worthy)
- Computational Systems for Tracking Ocean Carbon
- 492,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Xiaoyi Lu (University of California, Merced)
- Scalable and Resilient Modeling for Federated Learning Systems and Applications
- 15,360 node-hours on Frontier
- 8,960 node-hours on Aurora
- 35,840 node-hours on Polaris
- 76,800 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
- 130,720 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
Po-Lun Ma (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
- Global kilometer-scale atmospheric simulations with prognostic aerosol
- 1,600,000 node-hours on Frontier
David McCallen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
- Application of Exascale Computing to Regional-Scale Earthquake Hazard and Risk Assessments with a Focus on Emerging Energy Systems
- 1,100,000 node-hours on Frontier
Daniel Mejia Rodriguez (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
- Exploring Exascale Quantum Chemical Methods for Transition Metal Chemistry
- 313,442 node-hours on Frontier
- 145,628 node-hours on Aurora
Misun Min (Argonne National Laboratory)
- Exascale Computing for Energy Applications
- 200,000 node-hours on Frontier
- 200,000 node-hours on Aurora
- 50,000 node-hours on Polaris
- 50,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
Ivan Oleynik (University of South Florida)
- High Energy Density Physics of Novel Inertial Fusion Energy Ablator Materials
- 900,000 node-hours on Frontier
- 600,000 node-hours on Aurora
Raphael Ouillon (atdepth MRV)
- A GPU-based multiscale ocean modeling system for real-time quantification of marine Carbon Dioxide Removal operations
- 75,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
Jonathan Owens (GE Vernova Advanced Research Center)
- Atomic-scale design and characterization of sorbents for carbon capture
- 190,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
Bruce Perry (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
- High-fidelity combustor simulations to enable drop-in sustainable aviation fuels
- 300,000 node-hours on Frontier
- 60,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Stephan Priebe (GE Research)
- High-Fidelity Simulations of Open Fan Aeroacoustics Enabling Sustainable Aviation
- 477,000 node-hours on Frontier
Igor Rakhno (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
- Radiation studies for intensity frontier projects DUNE-LBNF, Mu2e and PIP-II
- 140,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Robert Rudd (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Machine Learning Enabled Atomistic Simulation of Iron at Extreme Pressure
- 150,000 node-hours on Polaris
Dillon Shaver (Argonne National Laboratory)
- High-Fidelity CFD Enabling Advanced Nuclear Power
- 200,000 node-hours on Frontier
- 100,000 node-hours on Aurora
- 50,000 node-hours on Polaris
Micholas Smith (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
- Probing Lignocellulosic Biomass & Products via Large-Scale Molecular Simulation
- 48,384 node-hours on Frontier
- 145,920 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
Michael Sprague (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
- High-fidelity modeling and next-generation surrogate models for floating offshore wind energy
- 475,000 node-hours on Frontier,
- 35,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU
Mark van Schilfgaarde (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
- Hierarchical, Scalable Green's Function Modeling of Chemistry at Interfaces
- 610,000 node-hours on Frontier
Shinjae Yoo (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
- Foundation Neuroscience AI Model-NeuroX
- 152,000 node-hours on Frontier
- 220,000 node-hours on Aurora
- 70,000 node-hours on Polaris
- 120,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-GPU
Yiqi Yu (Argonne National laboratory)
- High Fidelity Numerical Analysis on Flow and Heat Transfer behavior in Involute Plate Research Reactor to Support the Conversion Program
- 200,000 node-hours on Polaris
- 500,000 node-hours on Perlmutter-CPU