Table 4. ANU Principal Investigators - Grants and Usage on the VP2200


Project Project Title Number of SU CPU
Code Researchers Awarded Used
Batchelor (Department of Mathematics)
r05 Zero-Noise Limit of Three-Dimensional Laplacian Growth Processes 2 30 7
Blackwell (PRL, RSPhysSE)
k05 Computational Support of the H-1 Heliac 7 17 4
Brent (CSL, RSISE)
k58 Applications of Integer Factorization 4 282 802
Chappell (BioGeo, RSPacS)
r51 Palaeoclimate and Climate Modelling with the New CSIRO Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean - Land Surface - Sea Ice Scheme of General Circulation Models 2 558 845
Christie (RSES)
q51 Formation, Evolution and Decay of Highly Nonlinear Solitary Waves 1 13 2
s52 Highly Nonlinear Solitary Waves in Compressible Fluids 3 27 7
Chung (Chemistry, Faculty of Science)
r06 Permeation of Ions Through Membrane Channels - Molecular Dynamics Studies 5 30 4
Cordery (RSES)
r08 Fluid Dynamics of Terrestrial Mantle Plumes 1 50 16
Cummins (JCSMR)
u51 qm/MM Calculations on Solvated Molecules 3 57 30
Dewar (Theo Phys, RSPhysSE)
s55 Plasma Turbulence in 3-Dimensional Magnetically Confined Plasmas 7 54 11
Evans (RSC)
r04 Transport Processes in Liquids of Flexible Chain Molecules 3 171 88
r61 Strain Rate Dependence of Heat Transfer as Applied to Planar Poiseuille Flow 4 193 127
s02 Calculation of the Stability of Phase Space Trajectories using Molecular Dynamics Simulations 3 200 186
Fischer (Chemistry, Faculties)
u01 Energies and Potential Surfaces of the Excited Electronic States of the Triazines 2 58 14
Gardner (Theo Phys, RSPhysSE)
k12 3D MHD Equilibrium and Stability 5 60 30
Gibson (Biochem/Molecular Biology, JCSMR)
q11 A Combined Molecular Biological and Computer Graphics Study of Biologically Active Proteins 2 62 25
Gready (John Curtin School of Medical Research)
u52 Enzyme-Ligand Docking and Drug Design 4 82 59
u53 Definition of the Chemical Mechanism of the Photosynthetic Enzyme Rubisco 4 80 75
Houwing (Physics, Faculties)
n13 Non-Equlibrium Re-Entry Flows 5 40 1
Jakeman (CRES)
r52 Coupling Surface Hydrology Models to the CCM1 5 88 21
Kuyucak (Theo Phys, RSPhysSE)
r53 Investigation of Collective Nuclei in the SDG Interacting Boson Model 2 53 23
Leitch (RSES)
r01 Mantle Plumes 2 95 34
Lloyd (Plant Environmental Biology, RSBS)
s53 Interactions Between the Hydrological and Carbon Cycles at a Global Scale 4 40 74
Luther-Davies (OSC, RSPhysSE)
p59 Towards a Modelocked Waveguide Laser 3 22 4
q04 Dark Optical Soliton and Soliton Induced Waveguide Devices 2 48 1
Noble (RSBS)
p55 A Spatial Model of Community Dynamics in Patchy Landscapes 3 35 3
Ollis (RSC)
s06 Protein Refinement and Engineering 8 121 23
Pace (Chemistry, Faculties)
q63 Theoretical Studies of the Oxygen Evolving Site of Photosystem II 2 67 53
Persson (Theo Phys, RSPhysSE)
k67 Nonlinear Resistive Magneto-Hydrodynamics in the Presence of Flows 7 54 15
n59 Hidden Low-Dimensional Attractors in High-Dimensional Simulations 5 193 77
Radom (RSC)
k29 Gas-Phase Ion Chemistry 5 123 92
p02 Theoretical Studies of Organic Reactive Intermediates 2 97 92
p03 Unusual Structural and Energetic Consequences of Ionization 3 101 205
q07 Chemistry of Free Radicals 4 50 10
q08 Theoretical Thermochemistry 3 71 73
r54 Planar Carbon 2 65 0
r56 Isotope Effects 3 23 24
s07 Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions 3 37 5
s08 Free Radical Polymerization Reactions 5 42 48
v01 Enzyme-Mediated Reactions 2 54 19
Savage (Physics, Faculties)
r62 Modelling Atomic Diffraction 6 81 71
u57 Quantum Trajectories in Atom Optics 6 84 76
Schranz (RSC)
s10 Efficient Calculation of Statistical and Dynamical Reaction Rates for Large Dimensional Molecular Systems 2 79 10
Taylor (CRES)
m33 A 3-D Tropospheric Transport and Chemistry Model 3 33 12
r59 Climatic Effects of Biomass Burning 5 45 18
r60 Climate Modelling 5 84 7
s56 Mesoscale Meteorological Modelling 3 18 0
s57 Tropospheric Chemistry of Ozone and Carbon Monoxide 3 16 2
Welberry (RSC)
p05 Computation of X-ray Diffraction Patterns for 3D Model Systems 5 134 43
Totals* 4481 3468


* Totals include projects not listed here which made little or no use of the grant