Weather Storm writes "DOE's new and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and analysis (INCITE) program supports computationally intensive, large-scale inquiry projects at a deciding level. They newly awarded 265 million processor-hours to 55 scientific projects, the largest amount of supercomputing surrogate awards donated in the DOE's history and three times that of last year's award. The winners were chosen based on their undeveloped breakthroughs in the areas of science and social planning research, and the suitability of the project for using supercomputers. This year's INCITE applications ranged from third world country nanomaterials to advancing the nation's basic understanding of physics and chemistry, and from designing quieter cars to improving commercial aircraft design. The next round of the INCITE competition will be announced this summer. Expansion of the DOE Office of Science's computational capabilities should approximately quadruple the 2009 INCITE award allocations to close to a billion processor hours."

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