NSF Grand Challenge Applications Groups Budget Code:  
This activity supports multidisciplinary groups of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists to apply emerging high performance computing and communications systems to advance the solution of fundamental problems in science and engineering. These activities will generate significant new research in mathematics, computer science, engineering, and other scientific disciplines. The groups are listed below.
  • High Performance Computing for Learning--Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • High Performance Computing for Land Cover Dynamics--U. Maryland
  • Black Hole Binaries: Coalescence and Gravitational Radiation--University of Texas
  • High Performance Imaging in Biological Research--Carnegie Mellon Univ
  • Earthquake Ground Motion Modeling in Large Basins--Carnegie Mellon University
  • Computational Biomolecular Design--University of Houston
  • Adaptive Coordination of Predictive models with Experimental Observations--Stanford University
  • The Formation of Galaxies and Large-Scale Structure--Princeton University
  • High Performance Computational Methods for Coupled Field Problems and GAFD Turbulence--University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Radio Synthesis Imaging: An HPCC Application--University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
  • High Capacity Atomic-Level Simulations for Design of Materials Modeling--Carnegie Mellon University
  • A Distributed Computational System for Large Scale Environmental Modeling--California Institute of Technology
  • Parallel I/O Methodologies for I/O-Intensive Grand Challenge Applications--California Institute of Technology
  • Understanding Human Joint Mechanics Through Advanced Computational Models--Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Massively Parallel Simulation of Large Scale, High Resolution Ecosystem Models - Determination--University of Illinois
  • Advanced Computational Approaches to Biomolecular Modeling and Structure--University of Arizona
Budget ($ M)
FY 95 Act 12.83
FY 96 Pres 7.25
FY 96 Est 7.32
FY 97 Rqst  
Program Component Areas
  FY 96 FY 97
HECC 7.32  
LSN    
HCS    
HuCS    
ETHR    
Agency Ties
DARPA Partner
NSF  
DOE  
NASA  
NIH  
NSA  
NIST  
NOAA  
EPA User
ED  
AHCPR  
VA  
Milestone Changes  
FY 1995 Actual Milestones FY 1996 Estimated Milestones FY 1997 Agency Requested Milestones
Demonstrated the utility of direct sensitivity analysis in air quality models such as those for the Los Angeles basin or the Northeast Corridor.

Demonstrated the integrated AIM microscope system for monitoring biomedical experiments and develop capability to automatically detect events of interest.

Demonstrated on high performance platforms such as the CM-5 a simulation of a watershed using a discrete event dynamic model coupled to a geographic information system data base with visualization on a SGI-based system.

Brought the real-time transfer of data from the BIMA telescope system in California to the NCSA data archive to full, routine operational status.

Incorporated Fast Multipole type methods into molecular dynamics simulations of large biomolecular systems.

Made five new Grand Challenge awards. 		Extend face recognition system to larger data sets including recognition in groups.

Release of Scientist's Visual Workbench to astronomers, with development versions of interactive, distributed visualization and remote rendering of very large images.

Demonstrate effectiveness of Archimedes, a special purpose compiler for unstructured mesh computations, through simulation of the seismic response of Los Angeles Basin.

Enhance the CM-5 watershed simulation model with hydrological/ecological relationships to demonstrate increased realism within reasonable run times.

Begin work with industry to produce an affordable, stand- alone successor to AIM, with specialized high performance computing hardware built in. 		This activity is now incorporated into the activity described under Applications.