{"id":20553,"date":"2025-07-25T07:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20553\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T07:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:14:22","slug":"doe-announces-25-projects-selected-for-alcc-access-to-argonne-supercomputers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20553\/","title":{"rendered":"DOE Announces 25 Projects Selected for ALCC Access to Argonne Supercomputers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025-2026 ALCC projects will use the ALCF\u2019s Aurora and Polaris supercomputers to pursue breakthroughs in science.<\/p>\n<p>July 24, 2025 \u2014 The U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) has awarded supercomputing time at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alcf.anl.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Argonne Leadership Computing Facility<\/a> (ALCF) to 25 projects pursuing breakthroughs in areas such as fusion energy, quantum chemistry and artificial intelligence for science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpcwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/alcf_alcc_2526_awards.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-182516 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/alcf_alcc_2526_awards-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"  \/><\/a>The ASCR program, which manages some of the world\u2019s most advanced supercomputing resources, selects ALCC projects each year that drive forward DOE mission priorities and expand access to leadership-class computing across the research community.<\/p>\n<p>Through the ALCC program, computing time is made available at ASCR\u2019s world-class facilities to scientists from universities, industry and government agencies. These facilities include the ALCF at DOE\u2019s Argonne National Laboratory, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at DOE\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at DOE\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory\u2014all DOE Office of Science user facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The list below highlights the 25 projects that were awarded time on the ALCF\u2019s Aurora and Polaris systems. In total, the ALCC program awarded 56 projects across the DOE\u2019s computing facilities, with additional projects receiving allocations at OLCF and\/or NERSC. The one-year awards began July 1, 2025. To explore the full list of 2025\u20132026 awardees and project summaries, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.osti.gov\/ascr\/Facilities\/Accessing-ASCR-Facilities\/ALCC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALCC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michal Bajdich from SLAC National Laboratory received computing time on Aurora and Polaris for \u201cHigh-Precision Heterogeneous Catalysis by Quantum Monte Carlo.\u201d<br \/>\nThomas Blum from the University of Connecticut received computing time on Aurora for \u201cHadronic Contributions to the Muon G-2 from Lattice QCD.\u201d<br \/>\nJeff Candy from General Atomics received computing time on Aurora for \u201cTurbulence Database for Fusion Energy Science.\u201d<br \/>\nJun Fang from Argonne National Laboratory received computing time on Aurora for \u201cDevelopment of AI-Powered Application for Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design.\u201d<br \/>\nOre Gottlieb from Flatiron Institute received computing time on Aurora for \u201cSimulating Large-Scale Long-Lived Neutron Star Remnants from Binary Neutron Star Mergers.\u201d<br \/>\nRoelof Groenewald from TAE Technologies Inc. received computing time on Aurora for \u201cValidation of Stability Simulations and Predictive Scaling Toward Next Step FRC Fusion Device.\u201d<br \/>\nAllan Grosvenor from Microsurgeonbot Inc. received computing time on Aurora for \u201cSpace Traffic Autonomy: Leadership Computing Advances Hierarchical Planning R&amp;D.\u201d<br \/>\nSuhas Jain from Georgia Institute of Technology received computing time on Aurora for \u201cHigh-Fidelity Simulations of Bubble-Laden Turbulent Flows with Surfactants.\u201d<br \/>\nWei Jiang from Argonne National Laboratory received computing time on Aurora for \u201cMicroscopic Insight into Transport Properties of Li-battery Electrolytes.\u201d<br \/>\nDheeraj Kapilavai from GE Aerospace Research received computing time on Aurora for \u201cIntegrated and Detailed Simulation of Combustor and Turbine Interaction in a Jet Engine.\u201d<br \/>\nKibaek Kim from Argonne National Laboratory received computing time on Aurora and Polaris for \u201cPrivacy-Preserving Federated Learning for Foundation Models.\u201d<br \/>\nMark Kostuk from General Atomics received computing time on Polaris for \u201cPathfinding Integrated and Automatic Experimental Analyses for DIII-D Research.\u201d<br \/>\nEmmanouil Koukoumidis from Oumi PBC received computing time on Polaris for \u201cCausal Online Alignment for Reliable Foundation Models.\u201d<br \/>\nTaehun Lee from The City College of New York received computing time on Polaris for \u201cHigh-Fidelity Simulations of Helium-Air Mixing in HTGR Cavities and Thermal Stratification in Sodium Fast Reactors.\u201d<br \/>\nHarshitha Menon from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory received computing time on Aurora for \u201cTraining Multi-modal Models for HPC Code and Data.\u201d<br \/>\nParviz Moin from Stanford University received computing time on Aurora for \u201cPredicting Flow Distortions in Serpentine Engine Inlets.\u201d<br \/>\nPeter Nugent from Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory received computing time on Aurora for \u201cEMERGE: ExaEpi Calibration Runs and Surrogate Models.\u201d<br \/>\nIvan Oleynik from the University of South Florida received computing time on Aurora for \u201cHigh Energy Density Physics of Novel Inertial Fusion Energy Ablator Materials.\u201d<br \/>\nBruce Perry from National Renewable Energy Laboratory received computing time on Aurora for \u201cHigh-Fidelity Simulation of SAF End Use: Emissions and Operability Studies.\u201d<br \/>\nNoah Reddell from Zap Energy Inc. received computing time on Aurora for \u201cKinetic Plasma Model Investigation of Z Pinch Physics at Fusion Conditions.\u201d<br \/>\nDaniel Mejia Rodriguez from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory received computing time on Aurora for \u201cAdvanced Modeling for Two-Dimensional Materials and Transition Metal Oxides.\u201d<br \/>\nNicholas Schwarz from Argonne National Laboratory received computing time on Polaris for \u201cEnhancing APS-Enabled Research through Integrated Research Infrastructure.\u201d<br \/>\nThomas Wester from the University of Chicago received computing time on Aurora and Polaris for \u201cEnabling Exascale Discovery in Neutrino Science.\u201d<br \/>\nYiqi Yu from Argonne National Laboratory received computing time on Polaris for \u201cLES &amp; DNS Simulation on Flow and Heat Transfer behavior in Involute Plate Research Reactor.\u201d<br \/>\nZheng Zhang from the University of California, Santa Barbara received computing time on Aurora and Polaris for \u201cTensor-Compressed Sustainable Pre-Training of Extreme-Scale Foundation Models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alcf.anl.gov\/news\/department-energy-announces-25-projects-awarded-access-argonne-supercomputers-breakthroughs-ai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>: Logan Ludwig, ALCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025-2026 ALCC projects will use the ALCF\u2019s Aurora and Polaris supercomputers to pursue breakthroughs in science. 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