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The ALCF provides users with access to supercomputing resources that are significantly more powerful than systems typically used for open scientific research.

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The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility enables breakthroughs in science and engineering by providing supercomputing resources and expertise to the research community.
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The ALCF Support Center assists users with support requests related to their ALCF projects.

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Hours: 9:00am-5:00pm CT M-F
Email: support@alcf.anl.gov
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Projects: Energy Technologies

ALCF projects cover many scientific disciplines, ranging from biology and physics to materials science and energy technologies. Filter ongoing and past projects by allocation program, scientific domain, and year.

Award INCITE
Domain Energy Technologies
Hours 7 Million Core-Hours

Peta-Scale Particle-In-Cell Simulations of Fast Ignition

PI John Tonge, UCLA

Image generated from a simulation of the PIC code OSIRIS; Luís Silva, IST, Portu

Award ALCC
Domain Energy Technologies
Hours 75 Million Core-Hours

Improving Light Water Reactor Fuel Reliability Via Flow Induced Vibration Simulations

PI Andrew Siegel, Argonne National Laboratory

Award ALCC
Domain Energy Technologies
Hours 38 Million Core-Hours

Scalable, Explicit Geometry, Whole Core Nuclear Reactor Simulations

PI Michael Smith , Argonne National Laboratory

Award Mira ESP
Domain Energy Technologies
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours

Materials Design and Discovery: Catalysis and Energy Storage

PI Larry Curtiss , Argonne National Laboratory

Award Mira ESP
Domain Energy Technologies
Hours 60 Million Core-Hours

Petascale Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Channel Flow

PI Robert Moser, University of Texas

Award INCITE
Domain Energy Technologies
Hours 25 Million Core-Hours

Understanding the Ultimate Battery Chemistry: Rechargeable Lithium/Air

PI Jack Wells, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Leadership Computing Resources

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Growing the HPC Community

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