Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program

The PSAAP-IV Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) has been released! Pre-applications are due June 27, 2024. See https://grants.gov for details.

Please see the PSAAP-IV NOFO FAQ for answers to common questions.

The Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (PSAAP) is the primary mechanism by which the NNSA’s ASC program engages the U.S. academic community in advancing science-based modeling and simulation.  In 2020, nine PSAAP III centers were established, focusing on three major integrated areas:

• Discipline-focused research needed to further predictive science and enabled by effective Exascale computing technologies;
• Developing and demonstrating technologies and methodologies to support effective Exascale computing in the context of science/engineering applications; and
• Predictive Science based on verification and validation and uncertainty quantification (V&V/UQ) for large-scale simulations. 

Multi-disciplinary Simulation Centers (MSCs) and  Single-Discipline Centers (SDCs) focus on scalable application simulations, targeting either large-scale, integrated multidisciplinary problems or a broad single science/engineering discipline, respectively.  MSCs and SDCs develop and demonstrate computer science technologies and methodologies that will advance Exascale computing, and demonstrate integrated, verified, validated predictive simulation with uncertainty quantification.

Focused Investigatory Centers (FICs) are tightly focused on a specific research topic in either a science/engineering discipline, or an Exascale enabling technology, of interest to NNSA’s mission.

Multidisciplinary Simulation Centers

	University of Colorado at Boulder Center for Micromorphic Multiphysics Porous and Particulate Materials Simulations with Exascale Computing Workflows
	University of Illinois Center for Exascale-Enabled Scramjet Design
	University of Texas at Austin Exascale Predictive Simulation of Inductively Coupled Plasma Torches
	Stanford University Integrated Simulations using Exascale Multiphysics Ensembles

Single-Discipline Centers

	University at Buffalo Center for Exascale Simulation of Hybrid Rocket Motors
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for the Exascale Simulation of Material Interfaces in Extreme Environments

Focused Investigatory Centers 

	University of Maryland Solution-Verification, Grid-Adaptation and Uncertainty Quantification for Chaotic Turbulent Flow Problems
	University of New Mexico Center for Understandable, Performant Exascale Communication
	Oregon State University Center for Exascale Monte Carlo Neutron Transport