PRAC Awards for quarter 3, 2000 (7/1/2000 - 9/30/2000)
Farid Abraham, IBM/Almaden Research Center
Transonic Crack Propagation
SDSC SP Blue Horizon: 35,000
Alvin Bayliss, Northwestern Univ
Computations of Patterns and Instabilities in Combustion
SDSC T90: 370
Marek Behr, Rice University
Parallel Stabilized Finite Element Methods for Simulation of Aero-, Hydro-, and Hemodynamics Problems
SDSC T3E: 5,000
SDSC TERA MTA: 2,000
Amitava Bhattacharjee, University of Iowa
Computational Studies of Plasma Dynamics Processes in Magnetosphere, the Solar Corona, and the Ionosphere
SDSC T90: 1,000
Gerbrand Ceder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
First-Principles Calculations of Kinetic Properties and Phase Transformations in Rechargeable Lithium Batteries
SDSC T3E: 16,000
Robert Continetti, University of California-San Diego
Structure and Energetics of the Ground and First Excited States of Enolate Radicals and the Ground State of Alkoxide Radicals
SDSC T90: 500
Vernon Cormier, University of Connecticut, All Campuses
Pseudospectral Modeling of the Seismic Wavefield for Constraints On Mantle and Inner Core Heterogeneity
SDSC T3E: 31,200
Donald Dabdub, University of California-Irvine
Computational Implementation of A Size and Chemically Resolved Aerosol Chemical Transport Model for the Global Troposphere
Texas SP: 10,000
Texas SV1: 500
Yuni Dewaraja, University of Michigan, All Campuses
Monte Carlo Simulation of High Energy Photon Imaging in Nuclear Medicine
IBM SP at U Michigan: 20,000
Douglas Doren, University of Delaware
Nonadiabatic Reaction Pathways in Surface Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis
IBM SP at U Michigan: 5,000
SDSC T90: 2,000
Parvez Guzdar, University of Maryland at College Park
Mhd Simulation of the Earth's Magnetosphere
Texas SV1: 4,000
Armen Khachaturyan, Rutgers the State Univ of NJ, All Campus
Using Phase Field Microelasticity in Simulations of 3d Polycrystal Martensitic Transformation and Dislocation Structure Evolution
Texas T3E: 40,000
Svetlana Khachaturyan, Rutgers the State Univ of NJ, All Campus
Study of Displacive Phase Transformations in 3d Ferroelectric System With Randomly Distributed Static Defects
SDSC T3E: 5,000
SDSC T90: 100
Margaret Kivelson, University of California-Los Angeles
Simulation Studies of the Jovian System: Satellite Interactions and the Magnetospheric Configuration
IBM SP at U Michigan: 5,000
SDSC T90: 300
Richard Klein, University of California-Berkeley
X-Ray Spectroscopy of the Cygnus Loop Supernova Remnant
SDSC T90: 760
Joel Koplik, CUNY City College
Molecular Dynamics of Fluid-Solid Systems
SDSC SP Blue Horizon: 20,000
SDSC T3E: 10,000
SDSC T90: 50
Karyn Kunzelman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Coupled Fluid-Structure Analysis of Aortic and Mitral Valves
Texas SV1: 2,814
William Lester, University of California-Berkeley
Quantum Monte Carlo Characterization of Metal-Doped Silicon Clusters
SDSC SP Blue Horizon: 30,000
SDSC T3E: 20,000
Jon Linker, SAIC
Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Corona and Inner Heliosphere
SDSC SP Blue Horizon: 15,000
SDSC T3E: 15,000
SDSC T90: 1,000
Eckart Meiburg, University of Southern California
3d Direct Numerical Simulations of Miscible Porous Media Flows With Gravity Override
SDSC T3E: 10,000
A Alan Middleton, Syracuse University, All Campuses
Numerical Investigation of Electron Transport in Arrays of Nanoscopic Metallic Islands
SDSC Sun HPC 10000: 45,000
Christopher Mihos, Case Western Reserve University
Black Holes and Inflows in Elliptical Galaxies
SDSC T3E: 15,000
Noemi Mirkin, University of Michigan, All Campuses
Parametrization of An Electrostatic Model for the Hydrogen-Bond Potential of the Peptide Group
SDSC T90: 1,000
Sokrates Pantelides, Vanderbilt University
First-Principles Transport Calculations in Nanostructures
IBM SP at U Michigan: 15,000
Robert Pelcovits, Brown University
Numerical Simulations of Nematic-Isotropic Transition in Liquid Crystals
SDSC Sun HPC 10000: 20,000
Roger Pielke, Colorado State University
Regional Climate Sensitivity to Changes in Land-Use and Carbon Dioxide Levels Using Coupled Meteorological and Plant Models
SDSC SP Blue Horizon: 25,000
Philip Pritchett, University of California-Los Angeles
Collisionless Dissipative Processes in the Magnetotail and At the Magnetopause Boundary
SDSC SP Blue Horizon: 10,000
SDSC T3E: 30,000
Wouter-Jan Rappel, University of California-San Diego
Investigation of the Role of Spatial Heterogeneities in the Onset of Ventricular Fibrillation Using Detailed Cardiac Models
SDSC T3E: 30,000
Mark Richardson, California Institute of Technology
Circulations of the Atmospheres of Venus and Mars
SDSC T90: 600
Radhakrishnan Sureshkumar, Washington University
Stability and Dynamics of Mixed-Kinematic and Non-Isothermal Viscoelastic Flows
SDSC T3E: 5,000
SDSC T90: 400
Gretar Tryggvason, University of Michigan, All Campuses
Dns 0f 1728 Bubbles
IBM SP at U Michigan: 10,000
Paul Wiita, Georgia State University
Radio Jet Propagation Across An Interface
SDSC T90: 500
Jeffrey Winicour, University of Pittsburgh, All Campuses
Characteristic Calculation of Binary Black Hope Waveforms
SDSC T3E: 5,000
SDSC T90: 1,000
George Zaslavsky, New York University
Studies of Particle Dynamics in Chaos and in Transition to Turbulence
SDSC SP Blue Horizon: 10,000
Texas SP: 10,000
Texas SV1: 1,000
| Platform | Total PIs | Total SUs |
| Texas SP | 2 | 20,000 |
| Texas T3E | 1 | 40,000 |
| SDSC T3E | 13 | 197,200 |
| SDSC SP Blue Horizon | 7 | 145,000 |
| SDSC T90 | 14 | 9,580 |
| SDSC TERA MTA | 1 | 2,000 |
| IBM SP at U Michigan | 5 | 55,000 |
| SDSC Sun HPC 10000 | 2 | 65,000 |
| Texas SV1 | 4 | 8,314 |
