Office of Science User Facilities
Fiscal Year 2015
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Introduction to Scientific Users Around Diverse User Facilities the Globe Experiences
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An Interconnected Multiple Methods A Broad Enterprise of Access Impact Introduction
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science provides the Nation’s researchers with world-
Cover top Above class scientific user Simulation of the gravitationally confined deto- Researchers in the EVEREST visualization nation model of Type Ia Supernovae created facility at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. Facility. Credit Oak Ridge National Laboratory Credit George Jordan, Dean Townsley, Robert Fisher, Jim Truran, Don Lamb, Argonne National facilities to propel the U.S. Laboratory to the forefront of science Cover bottom Below An aerial view of the National Synctrotron Light The PHENIX particle detector at the Relativistic Source II at Brookhaven National Laboratory Heavy Ion Collider. Credit HDR Architecture, Inc. © 2014 Dan Credit Brookhaven National Laboratory Schwalm/HDR and innovation.
DOE Office of Science User Facilities, Fiscal Year 2015 01 What is a User Facility?
A user facility is a federally sponsored research facility available for external use to advance scientific or
Left The Genetix QPIX colony picker at the Joint Genome Institute. Credit Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Center Advanced Photon Source users with a 6-circle diffractometer at Argonne National Laboratory. Credit R. Fenner, Argonne National Laboratory technical knowledge under Right Silicon wafers inspection at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. Credit SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory the following conditions:
Open Accessible Free Collaborative
The facility is open to all interested potential users The facility provides resources sufficient for users to User fees are not charged for non-proprietary work if The facility supports a formal user organization to without regard to nationality or institutional affiliation. conduct work safely and efficiently. the user intends to publish the research results in represent the users and facilitate sharing of the open literature. Full cost recovery is required for information, forming collaborations, and organizing proprietary work. research efforts among users.
Competitive Unique
Allocation of facility resources is determined by merit The facility capability does not compete with an review of the proposed work. available private sector capability.
02 DOE Office of Science User Facilities, Fiscal Year 2015 03 Programs and Facilities
ASCR BES light sources The Office of Science manages its research and ALCF Argonne Leadership Computing Facility ALS Advanced Light Source user facilities portfolio 990 Users Argonne National Laboratory 2,560 Users Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory through six core program
OLCF Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility APS Advanced Photon Source offices. 1,107 Users Oak Ridge National Laboratory 5,331 Users Argonne National Laboratory
ESnet Energy Sciences Network LCLS Linac Coherent Light Source 48 Users Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 837 Users SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Facility stewardship Core program offices
The program office is responsible for cradle-to-grave support and stewardship of the facility, from ASCR Advanced Scientific Computing Research conceptualization and design, to construction and operations, to termination and decommissioning. BES Basic Energy Sciences NERSC National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center SSRL Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource In the conceptualization phase, the scientific user community plays a major role in articulating the BER Biological and Environmental Research 6,332 Users Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1,626 Users SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory scientific justification for the facility and in determining the most impactful facility capabilities. The FES Fusion Energy Sciences Office of Science utilizes project management best practices. Facility operations are funded through HEP High Energy Physics congressional appropriations directly to the program office. The facility depends on no other source NP Nuclear Physics of funds for core operations.
NSLS II National Synchrotron Light Source II 110 Users Brookhaven National Laboratory
Note The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS II) commenced operations on March 19, 2015. BES nanocenters BES neutron sources FES HEP cont.
CFN Center for Functional Nanomaterials HFIR High Flux Isotope Reactor C-Mod Alcator C-Mod FACET Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests 493 Users Brookhaven National Laboratory 491 Users Oak Ridge National Laboratory 224 Users Massachusetts Institute of Technology 148 Users SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
CINT Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies SNS Spallation Neutron Source DIII-D DIII-D National Fusion Facility Fermilab AC Fermilab Accelerator Complex 513 Users Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories 843 Users Oak Ridge National Laboratory 557 Users General Atomics 1,924 Users Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory
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CNMS Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences NSTX-U National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade 575 Users Oak Ridge National Laboratory 356 Users Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
ARM Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate HEP ATLAS Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System 1,121 Users Research Facility, Global Network 392 Users Argonne National Laboratory
CNM Center for Nanoscale Materials 529 Users Argonne National Laboratory
EMSL Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory ATF Accelerator Test Facility CEBAF Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility 713 Users Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 75 Users Brookhaven National Laboratory 1,510 Users Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Note The Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) was formally designated as a scientific user facility in fiscal year 2015. TMF The Molecular Foundry 677 Users Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
JGI Joint Genome Institute RHIC Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider 957 Users Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1,015 Users Brookhaven National Laboratory User Statistics Collected for FY 2015
Data collected for Fiscal Year 2015 reveal an interconnected and diverse research enterprise.
Above 06 08 10 A research scientist at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences. Credit Oak Ridge National Laboratory Users Around Diverse An Interconnected the Globe Experiences Enterprise
Below 12 14 A postdoctoral researcher working on the Superconducting Solenoid magnet at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Multiple Methods A Broad Facility. Credit Thomas Jefferson National of Access Impact Accelerator Facility.
0204 DOE Office of Science User Facilities, Fiscal Year 2015 05 Users Around the Globe
International users The 32,056 users span all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and 68 countries on six continents.
Number of users by state
Alaska Hawaii
Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands
Top 3rd Bottom 3rd Quickfact Quickfact Alabama 118 Illinois 2,984 Nebraska 58 South Dakota 35 Africa 24 Europe 3,501 Greece 19 N. America 26,559 Alaska 14 Indiana 463 Nevada 81 Tennessee 1,762 South Africa 20 United Kingdom 746 Slovakia 11 United States 25,993 Arizona 186 Iowa 247 New Hampshire 75 Texas 723 Nigeria 2 Germany 682 Ukraine 11 Canada 515 Arkansas 26 Kansas 87 New Jersey 699 Utah 144 80% Madagascar 1 France 427 Slovenia 10 Mexico 48 6,276 California 6,774 Kentucky 88 New Mexico 827 Vermont 10 Senegal 1 Italy 316 Croatia 7 Panama 1 Colorado 554 Louisiana 130 New York 1,929 Virginia 737 of users come from Switzerland 221 Cyprus 6 Honduras 1 users from international Connecticut 334 Maine 18 North Carolina 418 Washington 890 Asia 1,636 Sweden 137 Romania 5 Costa Rica 1 Delaware 101 Maryland 476 North Dakota 24 West Virginia 23 U.S. institutions China 713 Denmark 110 Bulgaria 4 institutions District of 235 Massachusetts 990 Ohio 439 Wisconsin 372 Japan 356 Czech Republic 82 Iceland 2 S. America 210 Columbia Michigan 534 Oklahoma 530 Wyoming 22 South Korea 281 Poland 73 Serbia 2 Brazil 145 Florida 325 Minnesota 258 Oregon 184 U.S. Territories 31 Russia 193 Netherlands 57 Estonia 1 Chile 36 Georgia 296 Mississippi 52 Pennsylvania 645 India 175 Finland 46 Argentina 13 1,312 Hawaii 32 Missouri 179 Rhode Island 62 Taiwan 57 Norway 43 Middle East 108 Peru 7 Idaho 31 Montana 38 South Carolina 138 Singapore 35 Austria 34 N. Africa Colombia 5 international Hong Kong 7 Hungary 32 Israel 82 Ecuador 3 Thailand 4 Portugal 25 Saudi Arabia 14 Uruguay 1 institutions Pakistan 3 Armenia 24 Egypt 7 Kazakhstan 2 Ireland 23 United Arab 3 Oceania 156 Malaysia 2 Belgium 22 Emirates Australia 138 Viet Nam 1 Turkey 12 Qatar 2 New Zealand 18
06 DOE Office of Science User Facilities, Fiscal Year 2015 07 Diverse Experiences
Users span the full spectrum of R&D institutions and career stages.
Number of users by institution type Number of users by employment level
1 U.S. Academia 16,012 1 Graduate Students 6,586 2 DOE National Laboratory 7,441 2 Undergraduate Students 1,165 2 3 Other U.S. Federal 571 3 3 Postdoctoral Research Associates 4,408 4 U.S. For-Profit 1,095 4 Faculty or Research Scientists 11,203 5 U.S. Not-for-Profit Research 761 or Charitable Organization 6 International 6,207 7 Other 165
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5 50% 52% of users come from of users are students
U.S. Academia 1 or postdocs 6
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08 DOE Office of Science User Facilities, Fiscal Year 2015 09 An Interconnected Enterprise
User crossover among facilities
Each facility provides a unique scientific The width of the ribbon connecting two facilities toolset. Users enhance their research by corresponds to the number of users who utilized both of those facilities in FY 2015. leveraging capabilities at multiple facilities. SNS SSRL
RHIC TMF
OLCF ALCF
NSTX-U
NSLS-II
ALS
NERSC
APS Quickfact 3,000+ LCLS users performed
JGI ARM research at two ATF or more facilities HFIR ATLAS in FY 2015 CEBAF
CFN Fermilab AC CINT FACET Esnet CNM EMSL CNMS DIII-D C-MOD
10 DOE Office of Science User Facilities, Fiscal Year 2015 11 Multiple Methods of Access
Users access a wide variety of research resources at the facilities. The majority of users come in person on site and many thousands more access resources and curated data remotely.
Users by facility
ALCF ASCR Esnet NERSC On-Site user OLCF physically present at the facility
ALS BES Remote user remotely accesses the facility APS
CFN Data user CINT remotely accesses data from an CNM electronic archive supported by the facility CNMS HFIR LCLS NSLS-II SNS SSRL Quickfact TMF
ARM BER EMSL 52% JGI on-site users C-Mod FES DIII-D NSTX-U 46% ATF HEP FACET remote users Fermilab AC
ATLAS NP CEBAF 02% RHIC data users 0 users 6,500
12 DOE Office of Science User Facilities, Fiscal Year 2015 13 A Broad Impact
Federal support of user projects Many industrial and federal entities use Office of Science user facilities to advance their research and development goals.
Department of Energy National Science Foundation National Institutes of Health 5,574 projects 1,783 projects 1,182 projects Industrial institutions 297 U.S. For-Profit Institutions
Department of Defense National Aeronautics Department of Agriculture 155 U.S. Small Businesses 371 projects and Space Administration 45 projects 174 projects 55 Global and U.S. Other federal sponsors Quickfact
Fortune 500 Environmental Protection Agency National Institute of Standards and Technology Department of Transportation National Oceanic and Atmospheric 3M Caterpillar Ford Motor L-3 Communications PPG Industries Southern United States Geological Survey Administration 5,688 ABB Chevron General Electric Lockheed Martin Procter & Gamble Total Department of Homeland Security Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Abbvie Cisco Systems General Motors Merck Robert Bosch Toyota Motor Department of Education Nuclear Regulatory Commission projects supported by Amgen Colgate-Palmolive Gilead Sciences Micron Technology SAIC United Technologies Department of State Apple Corning GlaxoSmithKline Monsanto Samsung Electronics Western Digital a non-DOE source Applied Materials Cummins HP NEC Sanofi AstraZeneca Dow Chemical Honeywell Int. Northrop Grumman SABIC BASF DuPont IBM Novartis Schlumberger Boeing Eli Lilly Intel Pfizer Siemens 1,12 0 BP Exxon Mobil Johnson & Johnson POSCO Sinopec Group U.S. industrial users
14 DOE Office of Science User Facilities, Fiscal Year 2015 15 For more information Credits
Download the report and view an interactive map of user projects at All the images on the user facility spread are courtesy of the host institution science.energy.gov/user-facilities Design: Sandbox Studio, Chicago
User facility locations
Above Back cover top 6 The Cherenkov radiation glow in the reactor pool The Gammasphere at the Argonne Tandem of the High Flux Isotope Reactor from stored fuel Linac Accelerator System, the world’s most Office of Science laboratories 13 elements. powerful spectrometer for nuclear structure Credit Enrico Sacchetti, Oak Ridge National research. 2 Other host institutions 3 7 Laboratory Credit Argonne National Laboratory 4 1 8 9
10 5 12 11 Below Back cover bottom A graduate student researcher at a beam Simulation of the distribution of water vapor in line at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation the climate system produced at the Oak Ridge Lightsource. Leadership Computing Facility Credit SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Credit Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1 Argonne National Laboratory 6 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 11 Sandia National Laboratories Argonne, Illinois Richland, Washington Albuquerque, New Mexico 2 Brookhaven National Laboratory 7 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 12 General Atomics Upton, New York Princeton, New Jersey San Diego, California 3 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 8 SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory 13 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Batavia, Illinois Menlo Park, California Cambridge, Massachusetts 4 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 9 Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility — Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Berkeley, California Newport News, Virginia Climate Research Facility 5 Oak Ridge National Laboratory 10 Los Alamos National Laboratory global network (multiple sites) Oak Ridge, Tennessee Los Alamos, New Mexico
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