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DOE Makes Advanced Computing Awards

August 14, 2001

The US Department of Energy announced its first awards under the new Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program. Fifty-one projects will receive $57 million this fiscal year "to advance fundamental research in several areas related to the department's missions, including: climate modeling, fusion energy sciences, chemical sciences, nuclear astrophysics, high energy physics and high performance computing.

Fusion received approval for 5 projects totaling $3 million.

The fusion projects will go to:

1. U. Iowa, U. Chicago, U. Texas at Austin, for magnetic reconnection; A. Bhattacharjee, PI, $750,000.

2. Auburn U., Rollins College, ORNL, for atomic physics for the edge region in plasmas, M. Pindzola, PI, $300,000.

3. ORNL, PPPL, MIT, Lodestar Corp., CompX Corp., for wave-plasma interactions in multi-dimensional systems, D. Batchelor, PI, $1 million.

4. PPPL, SAIC, U. Wisconsin, NYU, U. Colorado, MIT, Utah State U., General Atomics, LANL, U. Texas at Austin, for Center for MHD Modeling, S. Jardin, PI, $500,000.

5. LLNL, General Atomics, PPPL, U. Maryland, U. Colorado, UCLA, for the Plasma Microturbulence Project, W. Nevins, PI, $450,000.

In addition, in the category "National Collaborations & Networking," the following fusion-related award was made:

6. General Atomics, MIT, Princeton University, U. of Utah, PPPL, ANL, LBNL, for A National Collaboratory to Advance the Science of High Temperature Plasma Physics for Magnetic Fusion, D. Schissel, PI, $1.8 million.

For more information, visit http://www.sc.doe.gov