Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's institutional "Grand Challenge" scientific computing program has allocated 83.7 million CPU hours to 17 research projects ranging from astrophysics, chemistry, materials and biosciences to earthquake and climate simulation on Laboratory supercomputers. "The Atlas Grand Challenge program makes high performance computing resources available to compelling science projects vital to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Laboratory (LLNL) missions," said Cherry Murray, deputy director for Science and Technology. "Our institutional program aligns with national security needs and serves as a complement to the DOE Office of Science effort to allocate time on high performance computing systems to research projects of national interest in energy, environment, bioscience and physical science."[Read more...]