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U.S. Department of Energy Approves Physics Research Team's Computer Allocation Proposals

A research team in the College of Sciences and Mathematics Department of Physics received notice that their computer allocation proposals to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) in Oakland, California and to the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee have both been approved for the 2007 calendar year.

In a multi-institutional (Auburn, ORNL, Rollins, LANL, and Strathclyde) proposal entitled "Computational Atomic Physics for Fusion Energy," the team was initially awarded 1,000,000 cpu hours on the IBM and Cray supercomputers at NERSC. In a multi-institutional (Auburn, ORNL, Rollins, LANL, LBNL, and Strathclyde) proposal entitled "Computational Atomic and Molecular Physics for Advances in Astrophysics, Chemical Sciences, and Fusion Energy Sciences," they were initially awarded 750,000 cpu hours on the Cray supercomputers at NCCS. Both proposals were to the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. The research team at Auburn, the lead institution on both proposals, includes S. D. Loch, M. S. Pindzola and F. Robicheaux, as well as a number of post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students in the Department of Physics.