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Scientists from the San Diego Supercomputer Center and other parts of the University of California, San Diego - conducting research in Parkinsons Disease, fusion energy and climate change - were awarded supercomputing time by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of its 2008 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.

In total, the DOEs Office of Science awarded a record 265 million hours of processor time to 55 new and renewed scientific projects, the largest amount of supercomputing time ever allocated in the Departments history and three times that of last years award.

Now in its fifth year, INCITE supports computationally intensive scientific investigations, enabling researchers at national laboratories, universities and industry to explore a wide range of scientific challenges.

Projects involving UC San Diego and SDSC awarded processing time under this program include:

• Life Sciences: Simulation and Modeling of Synuclein-based Protofibril Structures as a Means of Understanding the Molecular Basis of Parkinsons Disease. Principal Investigator: Igor Tsigelny, San Diego Supercomputer Center. Co-investigators: Eliezer Masliah and Stanley Opella, UC San Diego. The project was awarded 1.2 million processor hours on the IBM Blue Gene/P at Argonne National Laboratory.

• Fusion Energy: Verification and Validation of Petascale Simulation of Turbulent Transport in Fusion Plasmas. Principal Investigator: Patrick Diamond, UC San Diego. Co-investigators: C-S. Chang, New York University; Stephane Ethier, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Zhihong Lin, UC Irvine. The project was awarded 8 million processor hours on the Cray XT4 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

• Climate Research: Simulation of Global Cloudiness. Principal Investigator: David Randall, Colorado State University. Co-investigators
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