Research

PSC has been providing computing power and expertise to aid the national scientific and engineering community in their research for over twenty years. Represented below is just a fraction of the significant research that has been accomplished at PSC.

Award Winning Research

PSC is proud of the national recognition awarded to its users over the years.

Collaborative Research

PSC staff are involved in collaborative research projects with scientists in many different fields.

• In 1999, PSC and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (formerly the Federal Energy Technology Center) formed a research partnership called the Super Computing Science Consortium (SC)². This partnership has already produced results in several areas.
• PSC collaborations with scientists from the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative has yielded research in these areas:
  • Strong-Shock Interface Interactions: the interactions of shock waves with contact discontinuities, such as an interface separating two gases.
  • Wake Induced Boundary Layer Transition in Turbomachinery: direct numerical simulation (DNS) of wakes impinging on a flat plate to model the transition of the boundry layer from laminar flow to turbulent flow.
  • Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes: studies of the problem of thermonuclear flashes on the surfaces of compact stars such as neutron stars and white dwarfs, and in the interiors of white dwarfs, in three dimensions.
• Researchers at Brookhaven National Lab's The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider have been working with PSC staff to simulate collision events on the STAR (Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC) detector.
• Members of both the National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing and Advanced Systems groups are working on the NIH Collaboratory project.

Publications

Projects in Scientific Computing
PSC publishes an annual report highlighting some of the best research conducted at PSC over the last year.

Technical Reports
PSC staff produce technical reports in their areas of interest.

Staff Research

PSC staff members conduct research in their areas of interest in addition to supporting PSC users in their research.

Networking Research

The PSC Networking Research group is actively involved in research to test and analyze high-performance IP networks and TCP dynamics in such networks.

Biomedical Research

The National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (an NIH-supported Resource Center) is housed at PSC. PSC NRBSC staff support biomedical researchers through this Initiative.

Members of the NRBSC also conduct their own research.

High-Performance Computing Research

The Advanced Systems group conducts research on high-performance computing systems.

Sampling of User Research

A small sample of the important research undertaken at PSC is represented here.