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MRAC Awards for Quarter 2, 2005

Adv Sci Comp

(1) Steve Heister, Purdue University, All Campuses
Hydrodynamics Instability of Coaxial Swirl Injector in Liquid Rocket Engines
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
TeraGrid Cluster: 20,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

(2) Lyle Long, Pennsylvania State U, All Campuses
Parallel Large Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Flow Over Rotating Blades
NCSA Xeon Linux Supercluster: 50,000

Astronomy

(3) Patrick Fragile, University of California-Santa Barbara
Three Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Tilted Black-Hole Accretion Disks
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
TeraGrid Cluster: 93,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

(4) Richard Greenberg, University of Arizona
the Birth of Planetary Embryos
TG SDSC IBM P690: 30,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 30,000

(5) Anatoly Klypin, New Mexico State University, All Campuse
High-Resolution Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Cluster Formation
NCSA SGI Altix: 70,000

(6) Ken-Ichi Nishikawa, University of Alabama
Computational Study of Astrophysical Plasmas in the Regime of Relativistic Jets
NCSA IBM P690: 5,000

(7) Gunnar Paesold, University of Rochester
Relativistic Poynting Flux Outflows: Particle Acceleration and Plasma Instabilities
SDSC Datastar IBM P655: 200,000

(8) Q Daniel Wang, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Hot Gas in Galactic Bulges
TG PSC TCS1: 155,000
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

Biochemistry

(9) Carol Hall, North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Computer Simulation Studies of Protein Aggregation
TG Purdue Linux Clusters: 198,000
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

(10) Ernest Mehler, Cornell University Medical Campus
Functional Properties of Protein Segments in Receptors
TG PSC TCS1: 184,000
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

(11) Tatyana Sharpee, University of California-San Francisco
Statistical Approaches to Understanding Neural Feature Selectivity
TG SDSC IBM P690: 30,000
TeraGrid Cluster: 30,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 30,000

(12) Pei Tang, University of Pittsburgh, All Campuses
Large Scale Md Simulations of Anesthetic Effects On Ion Channels
TG PSC HP Marvel: 40,000
TG PSC TCS1: 120,000
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

Biol Systems

(13) David Okaya, University of Southern California
Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Map Calculations Using 3d Ground Motion Simulations
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
TeraGrid Cluster: 125,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

Chem Eng

(14) John Abraham, Purdue University, All Campuses
Lbm Simulations of Two-Phase Flows
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
TeraGrid Cluster: 44,500
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

(15) Sumanta Acharya, Louisiana State Univ, All Campuses
Optimization of Film Cooling Jets in Crossflow
TG Purdue IBM SP: 85,000
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

(16) Linda Broadbelt, Northwestern Univ
Quantum Chemical Investigations of the Reactivity of Hidered Phenol Stabilizers for the Study of Lubricant Degradation
TG SDSC IBM P690: 84,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 84,000

(17) Santhanam Nagarajan, Stanford University
Large Eddy Simulation of Airfoil Dynamic Stall
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
TeraGrid Cluster: 60,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

(18) Bernhardt Trout, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sulfur Resistant Oxidation Automotive Catalysts Design By First Principles Calculations
NCSA IBM P690: 25,000

Chemistry

(19) Robert Bach, University of Delaware
Oxygen Atom Transfer
NCSA IBM P690: 27,000
NCSA Xeon Linux Supercluster: 29,000

(20) Valentin Gogonea, Cleveland State University
Density Functional Theory Study of the Ruthenium-Modified Active Site of Hydrogenase
NCSA IBM P690: 10,000

(21) Keith Gubbins, North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Molecular Simulation of Structured Nano-Phases: Confinement Effects and Self-Assembly
SDSC Datastar IBM P655: 80,000
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
TeraGrid Cluster: 80,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

(22) Hua Guo, University of New Mexico, All Campuses
Computational Studies of Chemical Reactions Catalyzed By Enzymes
NCSA IBM P690: 20,000
NCSA Xeon Linux Supercluster: 80,000

(23) Kendall Houk, University of California-Los Angeles
Large-Scale Computations of Chemical and Biological Reaction Rates and Mechanisms
NCSA SGI Altix: 50,000
TG PSC HP Marvel: 100,000
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

(24) Michael Lewis, St Louis University, All Campuses
the Effect of Aromatic Ring Quadrupole Moment and Polarizability in Intermolecular Interactions of Aromatic Rings
NCSA IBM P690: 100,000

(25) Suljo Linic, University of Michigan, All Campuses
Dft Studies of Metal Oxide Interface Chemistry: Investigations of H2/O2 Interactions At Au/Tio2 and H2 Oxidation At Ni/Zro2 Interfaces
SDSC Datastar IBM P655: 95,000

(26) Douglas Strout, Alabama State University
Role of Heteroatoms in Stabilizing High-Energy Nitrogen Molecules
NCSA IBM P690: 25,000

(27) Ralph Wheeler, University of Oklahoma, All Campuses
Methods to Simulate Molecular Vibrations
NCSA IBM P690: 50,000

Computer Sci

(28) Laxmikant Kale, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Charm++: Parallel and Distributed Programming Via Processor Virtualization
TG SDSC IBM P690: 80,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 80,000

Design

(29) Ki Dong Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shape Optimization for 3d Transonic Compressors Based On Navier-Stokes Flow Physics
NCSA IBM P690: 20,000

(30) Jeff Linderoth, Lehigh University
Numerical Optimization On A Computational Grid
NCSA Condor Pool: 5,000
TG Purdue Linux Clusters: 6,250
TG SDSC IBM P690: 12,500
TeraGrid Cluster: 20,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 12,500
TG TACC Cray Dell Linux Cluster: 6,250

Elec Eng

(31) Farhan Rana, Cornell University, All Campuses
Surface Emitting Photonic Crystal Quantum Cascade Lasers
NCSA IBM P690: 50,000

(32) Richard Wirtz, University of Nevada-Reno
Numerical Simulation of Convection in Open-Lattice Structures
NCSA IBM P690: 55,000

Mat Sci

(33) Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Institute of Technology, All Campuses
Quantum Simulations of Nanostructures
SDSC Datastar IBM P655: 200,000

(34) Cristian Ciobanu, Colorado School of Mines
Parallel Tempering Monte Carlo Study of High-Index Semiconductor Surfaces
NCSA Xeon Linux Supercluster: 75,000

(35) Richard Hennig, Ohio State University, All Campuses
Evolution of Interstitial Defects and Phase Transformations in Silicon
NCSA SGI Altix: 135,000

(36) Abdelkader Kara, Kansas State University
Bridging the Pressure Gap in the Co Adsorption On Metal Nanoparticles
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
TeraGrid Cluster: 45,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

(37) Alexandru Macridin, University of Cincinnati, All Campuses
Simulations Employing the Dynamical Cluster Approximation
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
TeraGrid Cluster: 200,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

Mech Eng

(38) Sanford Fleeter, Purdue University, All Campuses
Numerical Investigation of Flow Induced Vibration in Turbomachines
NCSA IBM P690: 22,000

Physics

(39) Pedro Marronetti, Florida Atlantic University
Relativistic Astrophysics: Compact-Object Binaries
NCSA IBM P690: 20,000
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
TeraGrid Cluster: 75,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

(40) George Morales, University of California-Los Angeles
Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Alfvenic Phenomenons of Small Transverse Scales
NCSA Xeon Linux Supercluster: 5,000
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
SDSC TG IBM P690: 50,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

(41) Frans Pretorius, California Institute of Technology
Simulation of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000
TG TACC Cray Dell Linux Cluster: 200,000

(42) Francis Robicheaux, Auburn University, All Campuses
Few Body Dynamics of Atomic and Molecular Systems
TG SDSC IBM P690: 10,000
SDSC TG IBM P690: 30,000
Teragrid Wide Roaming: 10,000

Summary of Awards by Discipline
Discipline Total Reqs Total SUs
Adv Sci Comp 2 90,000
Astronomy 6 623,000
Biochemistry 4 692,000
Biol Systems 1 145,000
Chem Eng 5 442,500
Chemistry 9 786,000
Computer Sci 1 160,000
Design 2 82,500
Elec Eng 2 105,000
Mat Sci 5 695,000
Mech Eng 1 22,000
Physics 4 460,000
Summary of Awards by Machine
Machine Total Reqs Total SUs
NCSA Condor Pool 1 5,000
NCSA IBM P690 13 429,000
NCSA SGI Altix 3 255,000
NCSA Xeon Linux Supercluster 5 239,000
SDSC Datastar IBM P655 4 575,000
SDSC Datastar IBM P690 0
SDSC TG IBM P690 2 80,000
TG PSC HP Marvel 2 140,000
TG PSC TCS1 3 459,000
TG Purdue IBM SP 1 85,000
TG Purdue Linux Clusters 2 204,250
TeraGrid Cluster 11 792,500
TG SDSC IBM P690 23 416,500
TG TACC Cray Dell Linux Cluster 2 206,250
Teragrid Wide Roaming 23 416,500

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