ECSS Projects
Explore ECSS's current and past projects, research teams, and science gateways.
Project List
For each of the following groups, the tables below list the Project, PI and Institution, the ECSS consultant(s) and the end date of the allocated support.
Research Teams
| Project Name | PI | PI Institution | ECSS Consultant(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| An implicit, Chimera-based discontinuous Galerkin solver: development and application | Paul David Orkwis | University of Cincinnati | Davide Del Vento, Shiquan Su |
| Statistical Analysis for Partially-Observed Markov Processes with Marked Point Process Obs, Y4 | Yong Zeng | University of Missouri, Kansas City | Mitchel DeWayne Horton |
| Genome-Wide microRNAs and Single Gamete Based Genetic Profiling of Sweet Sorghum Varieties for Biofuel Production | Ahmad Naseer Aziz | Tennessee State University | Alex Ropelewski |
| DISSCO, a Digital Instrument for Sound Synthesis and Composition, Y2 | Sever Tipei | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Paul Rodriguez |
| Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, Y2 | Christopher Norton Warren | Carnegie Mellon University | David Walling |
| Allocation Request on Bridges for Joint Analysis of Metagenomics and Metabolomics Data, Y4 | Ping Ma | University of Georgia | Paul Rodriguez, Philip Blood |
| Analysis of human cortical electrophysiological data: database design for rapid analysis | Max Novelli | University of Pittsburgh | Roberto Gomez |
| Assessment of Competition in the US Markets Based on Retail Scanner Data | Philip Garland Gayle | Kansas State University | Kwai Wong, Od Odbadrakh |
| Simulation for 2D Semiconductor with Parallel Uniform and Adaptive Multigrid Method for Multi-component Phase Field Crystal Models, Y2 | Zhen Guan | University of California, Irvine | David Bock, Dmitry Pekurovsky, Sudhakar Pamidighantam |
| Turbulent Mixing in a Magnetic Field and Flow strcuture under Successive Axisymmetric Straining, Y2 | Pui-kuen Yeung | Georgia Institute of Technology | Lars Koesterke |
| Modeling Heliospheric Phenomena with MS-FLUKSS and Observational Boundary Conditions | Nikolai Pogorelov | University of Alabama, Huntsville | Laura Carrington |
| The "Morelli Machine": A Proposal Testing a Critical, Algorithmic Approach to Art History | Christopher James Nygren | University of Pittsburgh | Alan Craig, Paul Rodriguez |
| New Frontiers of Direct Laser Acceleration in Megatesla Magnetic Fields | Alex Arefiev | University of California, San Diego | Amit Chourasia, Shiquan Su |
| Method Development and Application of Electronic Structure Calculations for Complex Nanostructures | Kaushik Dayal | Carnegie Mellon University | Yang Wang |
Community Codes
| Project Name | PI | PI Institution | ECSS Consultant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genome Assembly and Annotation of Red Abalone, Yellowtail, Soybean Cyst Nematode and Spiny Softshell Turtle, y2 | Andrew J Severin | Iowa State University | David O'Neal, Philip Blood |
| Computational Support for Bioinformatics Projects on Assembly Analysis of Fungal Metagenomes for the Discovery of Genes Involved in Important Biological Processes | Suping Zhou | Tennessee State University | Alex Ropelewski |
| Alpha-viscosity vs. GRMHD | Patrick C Fragile | College of Charleston | Damon McDougall |
| Development of a High-Performance Parallel Gibbs Ensemble Monte Carlo Simulation Engine | Jeffrey J. Potoff | Wayne State University | Junwen Li, Yifeng Cui |
| Numerical Simulations of Neutron Star Mergers | David Radice | Institute for Advanced Study | Lars Koesterke |
| Bioinformatics Pipeline and Infrastructure Development for Genomics, Y2 | Uma Chandran | University of Pittsburgh | Alex Ropelewski |
| Preparing for Checkpoint-Restart in the Exascale Generation, Y3 | Gene Cooperman | Northeastern University | Cyrus Proctor |
| Modeling AGN Feedback Physics in Galaxy clusters with Ultra-High Resolution Cosmological Simulations | Erwin Tin-Hay Lau | Yale University | Albert Lu |
| Coastal General Ecology Model (CGEM) optimization and training | John Christopher Lehrter | University of South Alabama | Kent Milfeld |
| The Best Practices to Supported Softwares on TACC HPC Systems | John Cazes | TACC | Hang Liu |
Science Gateways
| Project Name | PI | PI Institution | ECSS Consultant(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Using Galaxy and Jetstream resources to analyze non-coding and unmapped regions of whole genomes of healthy and disease-carrying dogs | Tendai Mutangadura | University of Missouri, Columbia | Philip Blood |
| Searching the SRA | Robert Edwards | San Diego State University | Eroma Abeysinghe, Mats Rynge |
| Atmospheric Science in the Cloud: Enabling Data-Proximate Science | Mohan Ramamurthy | UCAR/Unidata | Suresh Marru |
| NFIE Hydrological Property Computation at National Scale | Zong-Liang Yang | University of Texas at Austin | Yan Liu |
| GISandbox: A Gateway for Research, Education, and Experimentation in Geographic Information Systems and Science (GIS) | Eric Shook | University of Minnesota | Andrea Zonca, Davide Del Vento |
| Particle-in-Cell and Kinetic Simulation Software Center (PICKSC) Gateway | Benjamin John Winjum | University of California, Los Angeles | Eroma Abeysinghe, Suresh Marru |
| OpenTopography: A gateway to high resolution topography data and services | Viswanath Nandigam | San Diego Supercomputer Center | Choonhan Youn |
| High Resolution Spatial Temporal Analysis of Whole-Head 306-Channel Magnetoencephalography and 66-Channel Electroencephalograpy Brain Imaging in Humans During Sleep | David Shannahoff-Khalsa | University of California, San Diego | Mona Wong |
| Interoperating CyberGIS and HydroShare for Scalable Geospatial and Hydrologic Sciences | Shaowen Wang | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Yan Liu |
| Science and Engineering Applications Grid (SEAGrid): A Gateway for Simulation of Molecular and Material Structures and Dynamics | Sudhakar V. Pamidighantam | Indiana University | Feng Kevin Chen |
| Understanding sustainability issues in the global farm-food system using a global gridded model of agriculture | URIS BALDOS | Purdue University | Lan Zhao |
| Exploring the full simulation modeling workflow on XSEDE | Richard P Signell | US Geological Survey | Andrea Zonca |
| Gateway for SimVascular Educational Users | Alison Lesley Marsden | Stanford University | Eroma Abeysinghe, Marcus Christie |
Past Projects
| Project Name | PI | PI Institution | ECSS Consultant(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laser-based Structural Sensing and Damage Assessment, Y2 | Jerome F. Hajjar | Northeastern University | DJ Choi |
| Computation and testing of effective degree of eQTL Networks | Sheila Marie Gaynor | Harvard University | Roberto Gomez |
| A Coupled Lattice Boltzmann and Spectrin Link Method for Modeling Fluid-Structure Interaction | Cyrus K Aidun | Georgia Institute of Technology | Anirban Jana, Darren Adams |
| Exploring the universe with Advanced LIGO's detections of compact-object binaries | Duncan Brown | Syracuse University | Lars Koesterke |
| Hi-Fidelity Simulations of Shear Flow of Polymeric Melts: Flow Induced Disentanglement and Shear Banding | Bamin Khomami | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | DJ Choi |
| Image Analysis of the 1935-1944 Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photography Collection | Elizabeth Wuerffel | Valparaiso University | Alan Craig, Paul Rodriguez, Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan |
| Inter-cloud Bursting: Decreasing Time-to-Science with a Multi-Stack Cloud Federation | Adam M Brazier | Cornell University | Mats Rynge |
| Investigating morphology evolution in thin-film polymer blends, Y1 | Baskar Ganapathysubramanian | Iowa State University | Amit Chourasia, Christopher Thompson |
| Investigating morphology evolution in thin-film polymer blends, Y2 | Baskar Ganapathysubramanian | Iowa State University | Amit Chourasia, Christopher Thompson |
| Tanaka: Structural Estimation of Equilibrium Models, Y3 | Chao Fu | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Victor Eijkhout |
| Deep Learning for drug-protein interaction prediction | Gil Alterovitz | Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital | Yang Wang |
| Multilingual FrameNet: Cross-lingual Alignment and Annotation | Collin F Baker | International Computer Science Institute | Roberto Gomez |
| Omics approaches to understanding cellular and organismal responses to chronic stress in marine mammals | Jane Khudyakov | University of the Pacific | Erik Ferlanti |
| Using semantic networks to generate novel hypotheses in biomedicine | Jodi Schneider | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Paul Hoover |
| Speeding-up Agent-Based Simulation of Cattle Herd Infection Diseases | Rebecca Lee Smith | National Center for Supercomputing Applications | Yifeng Cui |
| dREG Science Gateway | Charles G Danko | Cornell University | Eroma Abeysinghe |
| Simulation of Quantum Circuits in the Clifford-T gate set | Antia Lamas-Linares | Texas Advanced Computing Center | Cyrus Proctor |
| Computational Studies on Physical and Chemical Properties | Yigui Wang | Southern Connecticut State University | Marcela Madrid, Yang Wang |
| Constructing Nanosecond Level Snapshot of Financial Markets Using Supercomputers, Y3 | Mao Ye | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | David O'Neal, Lei Huang |
| Deploying Multi-Facility Cyberinfrastructure in XSEDE cloud and storage facilities to serve the national geosciences community | Timothy Keith Ahern | Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology | Andrea Zonca |
| Fluid-Structure Interaction, Optimization, and Uncertainty Quantification Using High Performance Computing in Cardiovascular Applications, Y2 | Alison Lesley Marsden | Stanford University | Eroma Abeysinghe, Suresh Marru |
| High-Performance Computing Resources for CAPS Realtime Storm-Scale Ensemble Forecasts in Support of Hazardous Weather Testbed and Hydrometeorological Testbed | Fanyou Kong | University of Oklahoma | David O'Neal |
| Modeling the Effective Energy and Mass Transfer input to Earth's Critical Zone from sub-meter to global spatial scales and daily to millennial time scales | Jon Damian Pelletier | University of Arizona | Mats Rynge, Yan Liu |
| Preparing for Checkpoint-Restart in the Exascale Generation, Y2 | Gene Cooperman | Northeastern University | Jerome Vienne |
| Tuning Geodynamo Simulation to Paleomagnetic Observations, Y2 | David Gubbins | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Chad Burdyshaw, Shiquan Su |
| ARIEL: Analysis of Rare Incident-Event Languages | Ravi Starzl | Carnegie Mellon University | Paola Buitrago |
| Data Investigation and Sharing Environment for Big Weather Web | Carlos Maltzahn | University of California, Santa Cruz | Suresh Marru |
| Distributed MCMC for Bayesian Hierarchical Models | Imran Currim | University of California, Irvine | Andrea Zonca, Paul Rodriguez |
| First-principles studis of electronic structure and transport in semiconductors and multifunctional molecular electronic materials | Xiaoguang Zhang | University of Florida | Yang Wang |
| Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: Digital Asset Management | Brooke Sansosti | Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh | Roberto Gomez |
| Large Scale Biomechanics Simulations in ABAQUS | Jonathan Pieter Vande Geest | University of Pittsburgh | Anirban Jana |
| DiaGrid: Deliverying Science-as-a-Service for Collaborative Research and Education Communities | Carol Xiaohui Song | Purdue University | Christopher Thompson |
| Assessing future flood risk from the emerging threat of Madden-Julian Oscillation amplification using a convection-permitting climate model | Gabe Kooperman | University of California, Irvine | Si Liu |
| Computational Anatomy Gateway, Y1 | Michael I Miller | John Hopkins University | Antonio Gomez |
| Computational studies of earthquake hazards: effects of complex geologic structure and topography on seismic wave propagation and quantification of uncertainties in seismic source models and probabilistic seismic-hazard | Morgan Paul Moschetti | US Geological Survey | Lars Koesterke, Yifeng Cui |
| Predictability and Data Assimilation of Severe Weather and Tropical Cyclones, Y2 | Fuqing Zhang | Pennsylvania State University | Greg Foss |
| Surface-induced forcing and decadal variability and change of the East Asian climate, surface hydrology and agriculture | Yongkang Xue | University of California, Los Angeles | Shiquan Su |
| Simulating the microscopic properties of neutron star crust matter | William George Newton | Texas A&M University, Commerce | Lars Koesterke |
| WaterHUB for Hydrologic Modeling and Education | Venkatesh Merwade | Purdue University | Lan Zhao |
| Digital Humanities Projects: Processing XML Data | Elisa Eileen Beshero-Bondar | University of Pittsburgh | David O'Neal, Roberto Gomez |
| XSEDE Insights: System Utilization Analyses Through XDMoD Data | John Cazes | Texas Advanced Computing Center | Damon McDougall |
| Adaptive Finite-element Simulations of Complex Industrial Flow Problems | Cameron Walter Smith | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Lars Koesterke, Lei Huang |
| Allocation Request on Blacklight and Bridges for SNP Detection in Large Metagenomics Samples, y3 | Ping Ma | University of Georgia | Philip Blood |
| Computational Design and Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Protein, Polymers and Host-Guest Interactions | Jeffery G Saven | University of Pennsylvania | Victor Eijkhout |
| Computational fluid-structure interaction of biological systems, Y3 | Haoxiang Luo | Vanderbilt University | Hang Liu |
| Direct Numerical Simulations and Analysis of Compressible And Incompressible Turbulence, Y3 | Diego Donzis | Texas A&M University | Xiao Zhu |
| DNS of droplet-laden isotropic turbulence, y4 | Antonino Ferrante | University of Washington | Darren Adams |
| Multiscale Simulation and Complex Data Fitting of HIV Latency-Reactivation Control and Viral Dynamics | Alan Stuart Perelson | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Laura Carrington, Paul Hoover |
| Simulation for 2D Semiconductor with Parallel Uniform and Adaptive Multigrid Method for Phase Field Crystal Models, Y1 | Zhen Guan | University of California, Irvine | David Bock, Dmitry Pekurovsky, Sudhakar Pamidighantam |
| Simulation for the IceCube telescope data analysis and detector upgrade studies | Francis Halzen | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Mats Rynge |
| Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, Y1 | Christopher Norton Warren | Carnegie Mellon University | David Walling, Roberto Gomez |
| Providing a Science Gateway to Existing Simulations of Galaxy Cluster Mergers, Y2 | Marios Chatzikos | University of Kentucky | Christopher Thompson |
| Optimizing the Multi-State Modified Embedded Atom Method Code Addon for LAMMPS on Stampede | Srinivasan Srivilliputhur | University of North Texas | Kent Milfeld |
| Machine Assisted Rhetorical Analysis | James Ian Wynn | Carnegie Mellon University | Roberto Gomez |
| Micromechanical analysis of stress-strain inhomoheneities with Fourier transforms (MASSIF) | Anthony D Rollett | Carnegie Mellon University | Anirban Jana, Antonio Gomez |
| Decomposing Bodies | Alison Langmead | University of Pittsburgh | Alan Craig, Paul Rodriguez, Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan |
| Large Scale First Principles Study of Anderson Localization | Mark Jarrell | Louisiana State University | Yang Wang |
| BioTeam Science Gateway for Life Sciences Applications | Ari Berman | BioTeam, Inc. | Suresh Marru |
| Bioinformatics Pipeline and Infrastructure Development for Cancer Genomics, Y1 | Uma Chandran | University of Pittsburgh | Alex Ropelewski |
| Hydrological model development and application for a refined understanding of Arctic hydrology | Anna Katarina Liljedahl | University of Alaska, Fairbanks | Laura Carrington |
| Improving Seasonal Prediction of the Indo-Pacific SST and Indian Monsoon with Multiple Ocean Analyses Ensemble | Bohua Huang | George Mason University | Shiquan Su |
| Investigating 4-D Dynamics of Subduction and Continental Evolution using Adjoint Convection Models | Lijun Liu | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Yifeng Cui |
| Large-eddy simulations of pulverized coal combustion | Xinyu Zhao | University of Connecticut | Laura Carrington |
| Large-shared-memory supercomputing for game-theoretic analysis with fine-grained abstractions, and novel tree search algorithms, Y3 | Tuomas Sandholm | Carnegie Mellon University | John Urbanic |
| Laser-based Structural Sensing and Damage Assessment, Y1 | Jerome F. Hajjar | Northeastern University | DJ Choi |
| Multi-Physics Computational Modeling of Cardiac Flows and Heart Murmurs Using a Parallelized Immerse | Rajat Mittal | John Hopkins University | Antonio Gomez |
| Numerical Modeling of High-Impact Weather: Severe Storms, Tornadoes and Winter Cyclones, Y4 | Brian F Jewett | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | David O'Neal |
| Investigating the relationship between Identity Politics and Discourse using visualizations | Nicole Brown | National Center for Supercomputing Applications | Mark Van Moer, Paul Rodriguez |
| Research Inititiation Awards: Globalization Strategy and Parallelism in PDE-constrained optimization for inverse source problems | Widodo Samyono | Jarvis Christian College | Victor Eijkhout |
| Unidata Cyberinfrastructure in a Cloud Computing Environment | Mohan Ramamurthy | UCAR/Unidata | Suresh Marru |
| Finding Real Differences Between Semi-supervised Learning Algorithms Using PJ2 | George Rudolph | The Citadel | Jerome Vienne |
| Disclosure Scriptability | Matthew DeAngelis | Georgia State University | Kwai Wong |
| Numerical Methods and Models Using Stochastic (Partial) Differential Equations in Biology | Christopher Vincent Rackauckas | University of California, Irvine | DJ Choi |
| Simulating collisions of white dwarfs as a primary channel for type Ia supernovae,Doron Kushnir,Institute for Advanced Study,David Bock,12/31/16 | |||
| DISSCO, a Digital Instrument for Sound Synthesis and Composition, Y1 | Sever Tipei | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Paul Rodriguez, Robert Sinkovits |
| Terrain Analysis using digital elevation models, Y3 | David Tarboton | Utah State University | Yan Liu |
| Image Analysis of fMRI Data for Medical Applications | Frank Michael Skidmore | University of Alabama, Birmingham | Junqi Yin |
| Population Level Benchmarking Variant Calling Pipelines and Building a Community Resource with 3K Rice Genomes | Liya Wang | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Mats Rynge |
| Optimization and uncertainty quantification in cardiovascular flow simulations using high performance computing | Alison Lesley Marsden | Stanford University | Kwai Wong |
| Large eddy simulations of extended wind-farms | Charles Meneveau | Johns Hopkins University | Darren Adams, David Bock |
| Mining, Coordinating and Visualizing Curricula in STEM and Social Science | Sharon Tettegah | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Pragneshkumar Patel |
| XSEDE: Prediction and Control of Compressible Turbulent Flows, y4 | Daniel Joseph Bodony | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Lonnie D. Crosby |
| Ab initio study on the glycosidation of 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) | Yigui Wang | Southern Connecticut State University | DJ Choi |
| Analyzing the Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on Online Game Advancement, Y2 | Min Zhan | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Lonnie D. Crosby |
| Numerical Modeling of High-Impact Weather: Winter Snowstorms, Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes, Y3 | Brian F Jewett | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | David O'Neal, Lei Huang |
| Constructing Nanosecond Level Snapshot of Financial Markets Using Supercomputers | Mao Ye | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | David O'Neal |
| Direct numerical simulation of droplet-laden homogeneous isotropic turbulence - Y3 | Antonino Ferrante | University of Washington | Darren Adams |
| NOAA Climate and Weather Research Allocation Request | Frank Indiviglio | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Pragneshkumar Patel |
Key Points
ECSS has assisted on more than 60 XSEDE projects
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