Grand Challenge Awards

Astronomical Sciences

Richard Metcalf Crutcher (65000 CM-5), University of Illinois Radio Synthesis Imaging - an HPCC Application

Lars E. Hernquist (3000 C90, 64000 CM-5), University of California, Santa Cruz The Role of Collisions in Shaping Galaxies

Michael L. Norman, University of Illinois (3000 Convex C3, 1000 Paragon, 300 KSRl, 48000 CM-5) Applications to Galaxy Cluster Formation

Atmospheric Sciences

Carlos R. Mechoso (1500 C98), Univ. of California, Los Angeles Climate Research Using the UCLA General Circulation Model

Biological Instrumentation and Resources

Charles S. Peskin (1000 C90), New York University Cardiac Fluid Dynamics and the Immersed Boundary Method

Chemical and Thermal Systems

Keith E. Gubbins (1800 IBM RS6000, 6500 CM-2, 1000 CM-5), Cornell University Molecular Simulation of Fluid Behavior in Narrow Pores

George Karniadakis (2271 C90, 29888 Paragon, 1216 CM-5), Princeton University Hybrid Spectral Element Algorithms: Parallel Simulation of Turbulence in Complex Geometries

Charles L. Merkle (1500 IBM RS6000), Penn State University Distributed Computing of Unsteady Two-Phase Combustion

Chemistry

Charles L. Brooks (4592 C90), Carnegie Mellon University Theoretical Studies of Peptide and Protein Folding Dynamics and Thermodynamics Via Computer Simulation

Kenneth D. Jordan (1500 C90), University of Pittsburgh Theoretical Characterization of Small Water Clusters

Michael L. Klein (2000 C90, 1000 IBM ES9000, 1500 IBM RS6000, 3000 KSRl, 64000 CM-5), University of Pennsylvania Quantum and Classical Simulations of Molecular Aggregates

Peter A. Kollman (3000 C90), Univ. of California, San Francisco Density Function Ab-Initio Quantum Mechanics and Classical Molecular Dynamics to Stimulate Chemical Biomolecular Systems

Ronald M. Levy (1878 C90, 66560 CM-5), Rutgers University Supercomputer Simulations of Liquids and Proteins

B. Montgomery Pettitt (600 C90, 2300 C98, 10000 KSRl), University of Houston Salt Effects in Solutions of Peptides and Nucleic Acids

Material Research

Jerzy Bernholc (3432 C90), North Carolina State University Quantum Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Growth of Semiconductors and Formation of Fullerenes

David Ceperley (150000 CM-5), University of Illinois Simulations of Quantum Systems

Arthur J. Freeman and Gregory B. Olson (2750 C90),Northwestern University First Priciples Local Density Determination of Magneto-Crystaline Anisotropy at Surfaces and Interfaces

William A. Goddard (50000 Paragon), California Institute of Technology Large Scale Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Materials /Viruses

Mathematical Sciences

Steven A. Orszag (525 C90, 168000 Paragon), Princeton University Computational Studies of Complex Flows in Axisymmetric Geometries: Bluff Body Flows, Pipe Flows and Vortex Breakdown

Molecular and Cellular Biosciences

Eric Jakobsson (1500 C90, 1000 Convex C3, 128000 CM-5) University of Illinois Computational Simulations of Biological Membranes

John B. Kogut (7700 CM-2), University of Illinois The Search for Non-triviality: Non-compact Lattice QED

Gilda H. Loew (1500 C90), Molecular Research Institute Theoretical Studies of Two Families of Ubiquitous Metabolizing Heme Proteins, Peroxidases and Cytochrome P450S

James A. McCammon (1140 C90, 1500 Convex C3), University of Houston Theory of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics

Klaus J. Schulten (75000 Paragon, 67500 CM-5), Univ. of Illinois Modeling of Biological Membranes and Membrane Proteins

Ocean Sciences

James C. McWilliams (4000 C90), NCAR Coherent Structures and Statistical Dynamics of Rotating, Stratified Geophysical Turbulence at Large Reynolds Number

Physics

Herbert W. Hamber (4000 IBM RS6000, 4000 Paragon, 200000 CM-5), University of California, Irvine Studies of Quantized Gravity

Kendall N. Houk (1637 IBM ES9000), Univ. of California, LA Organic Reaction Mechanisms and Organic Reactivity

H. Edward Seidel (500 C90, 225 Convex C3, 90000 CM-5), Univeristy of Illinois Computational Relativity

Donald K. Sinclair (7500 CM-2), Argonne National Labs Hadron Thermodynamics

Robert L. Sugar (249300 Paragon), Univ. of California, SB Lattice Gauge Theory on Mind Parallel Computers

Juri Toomre (5000 C90), University of Colorado Coupling of Turbulent Compressible Convection with Rotation


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