Oct. 7 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) is an allocation program for projects of interest to DOE, with emphasis on high-risk, high-payoff scientific campaigns enabled via high-performance computing (HPC) in areas related to the DOE mission, that respond to national emergencies, or that broaden the community of researchers capable of using leadership computing resources.
Pre-proposals are due by 8 pm ET on Monday, Nov. 11. More information can be found at: https://science.osti.
ALCC is currently soliciting proposals for allocation awards for the 2025-2026 allocation year. High performance computing platforms available for the current allocation cycle include Frontier, the exascale system at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Aurora, the new exascale system at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF); Polaris, a 44-petaflop accelerated system at ALCF; and Perlmutter, an accelerated system at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). 10 percent to 30 percent of the allocatable HPC computing time will be made available on each of these machines to the ALCC program.
The ALCC program has a legacy of advancing scientific discovery and innovation across a wide range of DOE mission applications, including energy efficient engineering, computer science, materials and chemical sciences, geosciences and energy-related biosciences, biological and environmental sciences, computational fluid dynamics, high energy and nuclear physics, fusion sciences, cosmology, the design and control of scientific user facilities and experiments at these facilities, nuclear energy, fossil energy and renewable energy.
