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The Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program

Enabling scientists to make precise statements about the degree of confidence they have in their simulation-based predictions

The Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (PSAAP) centers focus on the emerging field of predictive science—the application of verified and validated computational simulations to predict the behavior of complex systems where routine experiments are not feasible.

The centers focus on unclassified applications of interest to NNSA and its three national laboratories: LLNL, LANL, and SNL.

The PSAAP centers develop the science and engineering models and software for their large-scale simulations, as well as employing best practices of verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification. A crucial new aspect of their work, in the current phase of the program, is computer science research aimed at addressing the major challenges of data movement, parallel scaling, resiliency, and power consumption in emerging high-performance computing hardware.

The goal of such research is to make the most effective use of next-generation computers, which will be of completely unprecedented scale and complexity, but which promise to allow revolutionary advances in physical fidelity and accuracy.

PSAAP centers

  • University of Utah: The Uncertainty Quantification-Predictive Multidisciplinary Simulation Center for High Efficiency Electric Power Generation with Carbon Capture
  • University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign: Center for Exascale Simulation of Plasma-Coupled Combustion
  • Stanford University: Predictive Simulations of Particle-laden Turbulence in a Radiation Environment
  • University of Florida: Center for Compressible Multiphase Turbulence
  • Texas A&M University: Center for Exascale Radiation Transport
  • University of Notre Dame: Center for Shock Wave-processing of Advanced Reactive Materials

Trilab Support Team

Each of the six university centers has its own Trilab Support Team (TST), consisting of NNSA laboratory researchers who act as liaisons with the centers. Each of the three NNSA laboratories provides two members to each TST. The Los Alamos TST members are:

Florida
David Daniel (CS)
(505) 667-0883

Mark Schraad (S&E Apps)
(505) 665-3946

Illinois
Sriram Swaminarayan (CS)
(505) 667-8647

Jim Cooley (Illinois TST Chair) (V&V)
(505) 606-0421

Notre Dame
Scott Pakin (CS)
(505) 667-5568

Tariq Aslam (S&E Apps)
(505) 667-1367

Stanford
Kendra Keady (S&E Apps)
(505) 665-9261

Pat McCormick (CS)
(505) 665-0201

Texas A&M
Bob Little (Texas A&M TST Chair) (S&E Aps)
(505) 665-3487

Chad Olinger (V&V)
(845) 938-7915

Utah
Ben Bergen (CS)
(505) 667-1699

Marianne Francois (S&E Aps)
(505) 667-4237

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Contacts

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Fernando Grinstein
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545
  • Email
  • (505) 665-2409
  • Sandia National Laboratories
  • John Feddema
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545
  • Email
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Ana Kupresanin
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545
  • Email