Samples of Well-Written LRAC Proposals

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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.

The following sample proposals are arranged by Field of Science (FOS):

Astronomical Sciences

PI: John Hawley, 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: Joel Tohline, 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: Kelvin Droegemeier, University of Oklahoma
Project Title: Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
Primary FOS: Meterology
Secondary FOS: Distributed and Parallel Processing, Vectorization

PI: Gary Glatzmaier, University of California, Santa Cruz
Project Title: Convection and Magnetic Field Generation in Planets
FOS: Atmospheric Sciences

Biological Sciences

PI: Charles Peskin, 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: Richard Friesner, Columbia University
Project Title: Computational Modeling of Biological Systems
Primary FOS: Physical Chemistry
Secondary FOS: Molecular Biosciences

PI: Keith Gubbins, North Carolina State University
Project Title: Molecular Simulation of Fluid Behavior in Narrow Pores and Pore Networks
Primary FOS: Chemical, Thermal Systems

PI: John Kim, 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: Uzi Landman, Georgia Institute of Technology
Project Title: Interfacial Complex Molecular Liquids and Nanotribiology
Primary FOS: Chemistry
Secondary FOS: Physical Chemistry

PI: Keiji Morokuma, 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: B. Montgomery Pettitt, University of Houston
Project Title: Salt Effects in Solutions of Peptides and Nucleic Acids
Primary FOS: Physical Chemistry
Secondary FOS: Biophysics

Engineering

PI: H. Neal Bertram, 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: David Ceperley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Project Title: Simulations of Quantum Systems
FOS: Materials Research

PI: Marvin Cohen, University of California, Berkeley
Project Title: Theoretical Solid State Physics
FOS: Materials Research

PI: John Joannopoulos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Project Title: Ab Initio Simulations of Materials Properties
FOS: Materials Research

Ocean Sciences

PI: Daniel Cayan, University of California, San Diego
Project Title: Prediction and Diagnosis of Extreme Climate Events
Primary FOS: Ocean Sciences, FOS2: Atmospheric Sciences

PI: Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Project Title: Estimation of the Time Evolving Oceanic General Circulation
Primary FOS: Physical Oceanography
Secondary FOS: Ocean Sciences

Physics

PI: Robert Sugar, University of California, Santa Cruz
Project Title: Lattice Gauge Theory on MIMD Parallel Computers
Primary FOS: Physics
Secondary FOS: Elementary Particle Physics