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Previous Awardees

The list below contains the names and associated information for previous awardees of the Top User of the Month designation from NCSA for use of an NCSA SGI system. A list of current awardees is also available.

user PI affiliation system project title
February 2000
O'Shea, Brian Norman, Michael UIUC Origin2000 Testing the Concordance Model of Cosmological Structure Formation

Sacha, Allan Toomre, Juri University of Colorado, Boulder Origin2000 Coupling of Turbulent Compressible Convection with Rotation

December 1999
Douglas Toussaint Robert Sugar UC - Santa Barbara Origin2000 Lattice Gauge Theory on MIMD Parallel Computers

Burkhard Militzer David Ceperley University of Illinois Origin2000 Simulations of Quantum Systems

November 1999
Lars Nerger Wai-Mo Suen Washington University Origin2000 DD: SC99 Demo Preparation

Prasad Alavilli Michael Heath University of Illinois, U-C Origin2000 DD: CSAR

Michael Jacobs Paul Woodward University of Minnesota Origin2000 3-D Simulation of Turbulent Compressible Convection

October 1999
Kostas Orginos Robert Sugar UC - Santa Barbara Origin2000 Lattice Gauge Theory on MIMD Parallel Computers

September 1999
Dorina Kosztin and Andre Krammer Klaus Schulten University of Illinois, U-C Origin2000 Modeling of Biological Membranes and Membrane Proteins

August 1999
Brian O'Shea Michael Norman University of Illinois, U-C Origin2000 MCA94-The Formation of Galaxies and Large Scale

July 1999
Paul Bode Jeremiah Ostriker Princeton University Origin2000 MCA94-The Formation of Galaxies and Large Scale

Mike Kirby George Karniadakis Brown University Origin2000 Hybrid Spectral Element Algorithms: Parallel Simulations of Turbulence in Complex Geometries

Ed Seidel Wai-Mo Suen Washington University Origin2000 Computational Relativity

June 1999
Lars Nerger Wai-Mo Suen Washington University Origin2000 Computational Relativity

Kostas Orginos Robert Sugar UC - Santa Barbara Origin2000 Lattice Gauge Theory on MIMD Parallel Computers

May 1999
Gene Bassett Kelvin Droegemeier University of Oklahoma Origin2000 Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms

Costos Dimitropoulos Antony Beris University of Delaware Origin2000 Direct Numerical Simulation of 3-D Time Dependent Viscoelastic Flows

April 1999
Jeff Gardner Thomas Quinn University of Washington Origin2000 Large Scale Structure and Clusters of Galaxies

Mark Miller Wai-Mo Suen Washington University Origin2000 Computational Relativity

March 1999
George Karamanos George Karniadakis Brown University Origin2000 Hybrid Spectral Element Algorithms: Parallel Simulations of Turbulence in Complex Geometries

Gabrielle Allen Wai-Mo Suen Washington University Origin2000 Computational Relativity

February 1999
Nickolay Gnedin Nickolay Gnedin Princeton University Origin2000 The Physical Processes at High Redshift

November 1998
Steve Anderson Paul Woodward University of Minnesota Origin2000 3-D Simulation of Turbulent Compressible Convection

Jianping Gao Uzi Landman Georgia Institute of Technology Origin2000 Fundamental Studies of Interface Complex Molecular Systems and Nanotribology

October 1998
Jeff Gardner Thomas Quinn University of Washington Origin2000 Large Scale Structure and Clusters of Galaxies

September 1998
Mark Miesch Juri Toomre University of Colorado, Boulder Origin2000 Coupling of Turbulent Compressible Convection with Rotation

August 1998
Ed Seidel Wai-Mo Suen Washington University Origin2000 Computational Relativity

Gerd Lanfermann Wai-Mo Suen Washington University Origin2000 Computational Relativity

July 1998
Anatoly Klypin Anatoly Klypin New Mexico State University Origin2000 What is the Dark Matter in the Universe

June 1998
Fabrice Leclerc Martin Karpus Harvard University POWER CHALLENGEarray Simulations of Biomolecules

Jeff Gardner Thomas Quinn University of Washington Origin2000 Large Scale Structure and Clusters of Galaxies

Jay Seigel Kim Baldridge Universityof California, San Diego Origin2000 Electronic Structure and Organometallic Chemistry of Fullerene Fragments

James Stone John Hawley University of Virginia Origin2000 Computational Magnetohydrodynamics for Astrophysical Systems

May 1998
Young-gui Yoon Marvin L. Cohen University of California Origin2000 Theoretical Solid State Physics

April 1998
Anthony Grafton Ralph Wheeler University of Oklahoma POWER CHALLENGEarray Quinone Binding and Reduction in Photosynthesis

William Pottenger Bruce Schatz University of Illinois Origin2000 Community Info Systems

March 1998
Dmitry Bondarev Carol A. Venanzi New Jersey Institute of Technology POWER CHALLENGEarray Molecular Recognition of Amiloride Analogues by DNA

August Calhoun Gregory Voth University of Utah Origin2000 Electron Transfer Across the Electrode/Electrolyte

February 1998
Daniel Stromberg Wayne C. Solomon UIUC POWER CHALLENGEarray High Pressure Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser (COIL) Modeling, Analysis and Optimization

Tairan Wang John Joannopoulos MIT Origin2000 Ab-Initio Simulations of Materials Properties

January 1998
Robert Sugar Robert Sugar UC-Santa Barbara Origin2000 Lattice Gauge Theory on MIMD Parallel Computers

Anders Sandvik David Campbell UIUC Origin2000 Supercomputer Studies of Low-Dimensional Electronic Materials and Nanodevices

Youngshang Pak Gregory Voth University of Utah POWER CHALLENGEarray Electron Transfer Across the Electrode/Electrolytes

December 1997
George Karniadakis George Karniadakis Brown University Origin2000 Hybrid Spectral Element Algorithms: Parallel Simulations of Turbulence in Complex Geometries

Anatoly Klypin Anatoly Klypin New Mexico State University Origin2000 What is the Dark Matter in the Universe

Robert Fisher Richard Klein UC-Berkeley POWER CHALLENGEarray Massively Parallel 3-D MHD Simulations of Magnetized Cloud-Shock Interactions

Ashok Srinivasan Ashok Srinivasan NCSA POWER CHALLENGEarray Testing Parallel Random Number Generators

November 1997
Derek Debe William Goddard CIT Origin2000 Large Scale Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Materials and Viruses

October 1997
Luciano Rezzolla Richard Matzner University of Texas, Austin Origin2000 Black Hole Binaries: Coalescence and Gravitational Radiation

Eric Walter Eugene Mele University of Pennsylvania Origin2000 Localized Stress Distributions in Piezoelectric Crystals and Vicinal Copper Surfaces

Alexander Shick Arthur Freeman Northwestern University POWER CHALLENGEarray Electronic Structure of Clusters and Solids

September 1997
Thomas Quinn Thomas Quinn University of Washington Origin2000 Large Scale Structure and Clusters of Galaxies

Michel Cote Marvin Cohen University of California Origin2000 Theoretical Solid State Physics

Nicholas Ramer Eugene Mele University of Pennsylvania POWER CHALLENGEarray Localized Stress Distributions in Piezoelectric Crystals and Vicinal Copper Surfaces