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Team Earns 2010 INCITE Award from DOE
Scientists from PNNL and two Swiss institutes received 12 million hours of supercomputing time, thanks to the 2010 INCITE Leadership Computing award from DOE. Now, the team will be able to continue running calculations that explain the physics of reactions in bulk and at interfaces.
"Understanding the reactions that occur in the vicinity of interfaces have far-reaching implications in many disciplines," said Christopher Mundy, Fundamental & Computational Sciences Directorate. Furthermore, the supercomputers will be put to use to elucidate how water behaves around ions at the air/water interface. The results of these studies will be used as leverage to help scientists control processes for hydrogen storage, biofuel production and other reactions.
The members of this research team are Christopher Mundy, Roger Rousseau, Greg Schenter and Shawn Kathmann, all of Fundamental & Computational Sciences Directorate; Allesandro Durioni of IBM Research-Zurich and Joost VandeVondele of the University of Zurich.
The INCITE award grants access to supercomputers to model complex processes and analyze large data sets. The team received a total of 12 million hours on two DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research supercomputers: the Cray XTs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the IBM Blue Gene/P at Argonne National Laboratory.
More Info (announced 2/1/2010)