Summertime, specifically July 1, is when the ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) projects get underway at the Leadership Computing Facilities at Argonne and Oak Ridge, and at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). The supercomputing centers will support a total of 32 projects and 1.6 billion core-hours — 809 million core-hours to 13 new projects at the ALCF alone.
ALCC projects expand into new areas of science and engineering of interest to the DOE mission — the “high-risk, high-payoff” research aimed at, among other things, national emergency mitigation — and also serves to grow a critical demographic: the community of researchers capable of using leadership computing resources.
This is the first year that ALCC projects will gain access to Argonne’s Mira system, which will greatly accelerate the target research in clean energy, climate change prediction, and battery research. More information about the individual 2013 ALCC awards can be found here.