May 16, 2007
DOE's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Invites Research Proposals for Tapping Supercomputing Resources
DOE's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing, within the Office of Science, invites proposals for innovative, large-scale computational science projects. ASCR expects to award up to 250 million processor hours, nearly three times the amount awarded in 2007, to researchers who will be able to use some of the world's most powerful supercomputers at DOE national laboratories. The allocations of supercomputing and data storage resources along with technical support will be made under DOE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program for computationally intensive, large-scale research projects. In its fifth year, the program encourages proposals from universities, other research institutions and industry on supercomputers that are not commonly available in academia or the private sector. Industry is specifically solicited to propose challenging problems that may be solved using high-performance computing systems. Link to the press release...

January 9, 2007
DOE's Office of Science Awards 95 Million Hours of Supercomputing Time to Advance Research in Science, Academia and Industry
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announced today that 45 projects were awarded a total of 95 million hours of computing time on some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers as part of its 2007 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.  DOE’s Under Secretary for Science Dr. Raymond Orbach presented the awards at the Council on Competitiveness in Washington,  DC.  more>

October 19, 2006
ASCR-Funded Research Projects Win Two R&D100 Awards for 2006
WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman today congratulated researchers at 12 DOE national laboratories who won 41 of the 100 awards given by R&D Magazine.  The awards are presented annually in recognition of the most outstanding technology developments with commercial potential. R&D Magazine will make the awards tonight at its 44th annual R&D 100 Awards ceremony in Chicago. Two of the DOE- funded awards were supported by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research.   more>

October 3, 2006
DOE-Supported Researcher Is Co-Winner of 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
WASHINGTON, DC - Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman today congratulated Dr. George F. Smoot of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. John C. Mather of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for co-winning the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.    more>

September 7, 2006
DOE Announces $60 Million in Projects to Accelerate Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science today announced approximately $60 million in new awards annually for 30 computational science projects over the next three to five years.  The projects are aimed at accelerating research in designing new materials, developing future energy sources, studying global climate change, improving environmental cleanup methods and understanding physics from the tiniest particles to the massive explosions of supernovae. 

“Advanced computing is a critical element of President Bush’s American Competitiveness Initiative and these projects represent an important path to scientific discovery,” DOE Under Secretary for Science Raymond Orbach said.  “We anticipate that they will develop and improve software for simulating scientific problems and help reduce the time-to-market for new technologies.”   more>

July 27, 2006
DOE Seeks Proposals for Expanded Large-Scale Scientific Computing
WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science is seeking new proposals to support innovative, large-scale computational science projects.  Successful proposals will be given the use of substantial computer time and data storage on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world that reside in the department’s scientific computing centers in Berkeley, Calif.; Argonne, Ill.; Oak Ridge, Tenn.; and Richland, Wash. The program is called the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE).   more>