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Peer-review board members thought that these were excellent examples
of how an allocation request should be presented. Some things
noted by the review board were:
- The proposer summarized his/her research in context of the current
state-of-the-art and outlined the computational algorithms and how these
relate to the various subsections of his research.
- The reviewers were provided sufficient information, but not overwhelmed
by details.
- Justification for the service unit request was clear and closely coupled
to each of the computational experiments. As such, if the board needed to
reduce the original request, the reduction could have been done on a
rational basis with minimum disruption to the investigator.
- A summary of previous support was included which
clearly stated how the previous computational results have effected the
latest service unit request.
Large Resource Allocations Committee (formerly NRAC) Sample Proposals
The followiing sample proposals are arranged by Field of Science (FOS):
Astronomical Sciences
PI:
Hawley, John
Institution:
University of Virginia
Project Title:
Computational Magnetohydrodynamics for Astrophysical Systems
Primary FOS: Astronomical
Sciences
Secondary FOS: Stellar Astronomy and Astrophysics; Extragalactic
Astronomy and Cosmology
PI:
Tohline, Joel
Institution:
Louisiana State University
Project Title:
Numerical Hydrodynamics of Mass-Transferring Binary Star Systems
Primary FOS: Stellar
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Secondary FOS: Advanced Scientific Computing
Atmospheric Sciences
PI:Droegemeier, Kelvin
Institution:
University of Oklahoma
Project Title:
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
Primary FOS: Meterology
Secondary FOS:
Distributed and Parallel Processing, Vectorization
PI:
Glatzmaier, Gary
Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Project Title:
Convection and Magnetic Field Generation in Planets
FOS: Atmospheric
Sciences
Biological Sciences
PI: Peskin, Charles
Institution:
New York University
Project Title:
Cardiac Fluid Dynamics and the Immersed Boundary Method
Primary FOS: Biological
Instrumentation and Resources
Secondary FOS: Advanced Scientific
Computing
Chemistry
PI:
Beveridge, David
Institution:
Wesleyan University
Project Title:
Molecular Dynamics Simulatioons of Nucleic Acids: Structure, Motions, Solvation
and Ligand Interactions
Primary FOS: Chemistry
Secondary FOS: Physical Chemistry; Biochemistry
and Molecular Structure and Function
PI:
Friesner, Richard
Institution:
Columbia University
Project Title:
Computational Modeling of Biological Systems
Primary FOS: Physical
Chemistry
Secondary FOS: Molecular Biosciences
PI: Gubbins, Keith
Institution:
North Carolina State University
Project Title:
Molecular Simulation of Fluid Behavior in Narrow Pores and Pore Networks
Primary FOS: Chemical, Thermal
Systems
PI:
Kim, John
Institution:
University of California-Los Angeles
Project Title:
A Numerical Study of Turbulent Boundary Layers
Primary FOS: Chemical, Thermal
Systems
Secondary FOS: Fluid, Particulate, and Hydraulic Systems; Meteorology
PI: Landman, Uzi
Institution:
Georgia Institute of Technology
Project Title:
Interfacial Complex Molecular Liquids and Nanotribiology
Primary FOS: Chemistry
Secondary FOS:
Physical Chemistry
PI:
Morokuma, Keiji
Institution:
Emory University
Project Title:
Computational Studies of Potential Energy Surfaces for Chemical Reactions and
Interactions
Primary FOS: Chemistry
Secondary FOS:
Physical Chemistry; Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry
PI:
Pettitt, B. Montgomery
Institution:
University of Houston
Project Title:
Salt Effects in Solutions of Peptides and Nucleic Acids
Primary FOS: Physical
Chemistry
Secondary FOS: Biophysics
PI:
Taylor, Peter
Institution:
University of California, San Diego
Project Title:
Structures, Energetics and Properties of Molecules
Primary FOS: Physical
Chemistry
Secondary FOS: Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic
Chemistry; Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
PI:
Voth, Gregory
Institution:
University of Utah
Title:
Fundamental Quantum Dynamical Processes in Condensed Matter
Primary FOS: Physical
Chemistry
Secondary FOS: Condensed Matter Physics
Engineering
PI:
Bertram, H. Neal
Institution:
University of California-San Diego
Project Title:
Fundamental Physics of High-Density Magnetic Recording
Primary FOS: Electrical and
Communication Systems
Secondary FOS: Solid State and Microstructures
Materials Research
PI: Ceperley, David
Institution:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Project Title:
Simulations of Quantum Systems
FOS: Materials
Research
PI: Cohen, Marvin
Institution:
University of California, Berkeley
Project Title:
Theoretical Solid State Physics
FOS: Materials
Research
PI:
Joannopoulos, John
Institution:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Project Title:
Ab-Initio Simulations of
Materials Properties
FOS: Materials
Research
Ocean
Sciences
PI:
Cayan, Daniel
Institution:
University of California, San Diego
Project Title:
Prediction and Diagnosis of Extreme Climate Events
Primary FOS: Ocean Sciences
Secondary FOS: Atmospheric Sciences
PI:
Wunsch, Carl
Institution:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Project Title:
Estimation of the Time Evolving Oceanic General Circulation
Primary FOS: Physical
Oceanography
Secondary FOI: Ocean Sciences
Physics
Principal
Investigator: Sugar, Robert
Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Project Title:
Lattice Gauge Theory on MIMD Parallel Computers
Primary FOS: Physics
Secondary FOS:
Elementary Particle Physics
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