U.S. Department of Energy
Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
STATUS
The Office of Science (SC) expects to publish in the Federal Register a set of solicitations for new research by early January 2001. These will be separate but related solicitations involving the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), the Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Biological and Environmental Research (BER), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), and High Energy and Nuclear Physics (HENP) under the umbrella of SC's newly funded research program, Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing.
It is anticipated that up to $25 million will be available for multiple awards in FY�2001. We expect that teams of multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional researchers will be required to explore and solve the challenging problems in scientific computing identified in the solicitations. In line with the recommendations of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee's 1999 report, applicants may request support for up to five years, but out-year support is contingent on availability of funds, progress of the funded activity, and programmatic needs.
The deadline for submitting applications is expected to be approximately ten (10) weeks after the solicitation is published. We expect to ask applicants to submit a preapplication containing a title, a list of investigators and their institutions, and a no-more-than-two page summary of the proposed research. Preapplications will be due approximately four (4) weeks after the solicitation is published. Feedback on the preapplications will be provided within two weeks of their receipt.
The goal of Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing is to enable the use of terascale computers to dramatically extend our exploration of the fundamental processes of nature as well as advance our ability to predict the behavior of a broad range of complex natural and engineered systems. This will be achieved by creating a Scientific Computing Software Infrastructure to bridge the gap between the most advanced computing technologies available and the scientific research programs of the Office of Science. The solicitations from the individual offices are expected to contain a call for research applications in some or all of the areas listed below.
Copies of the SC computing plan, Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing, can be downloaded from the SC website at:
http://www.science.doe.gov/production/octr/mics/mics_documents.htm
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Once the above referenced notices are published in the Federal Register, they will also be available at the Office of Science Grants and Contracts Web Site at
http://www.science.doe.gov/production/grants/grants.html.
A Notice of Intent has also been posted at this web site announcing upcoming SciDAC
Program Announcements to the DOE National Laboratories.
Notice 01-06 - Published Dec. 19, 2000
Notice 01-07 - Published Dec. 19, 2000
Notice 01-08 - Published Jan. 11, 2001
Notice 01-09 - Published Jan. 2, 2001
Notice 01-10 - Published Jan. 3, 2001
Notice 01-11 - Published Jan. 22, 2001
1. Research in and development of computational modeling and simulation capabilities that take full advantage of the extraordinary computing capabilities provided by terascale computers and advance, as no other approach can, the fundamental science programs of the DOE:
a) Office of Basic Energy Sciences (Solicitation Notice 01-08)
2. Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (Solicitation Notices 01-06 and 01-07)
b) Office of Biological and Environmental Research (Solicitation Notice 01-09)
c) Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (Solicitation Notice 01-10)
d) Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics (Solicitation Notice 01-11)
It is anticipated that up to $10 million will be available in these areas and that this funding, in order to address problems of the complexity anticipated, would support on the order of 6-8 research teams of disciplinary theoretical and computational scientists, computer scientists, and applied mathematicians.
a) Research and development of software to accelerate the creation of scientific codes that take full advantage of terascale and beyond computers, protect the long-term investments in these codes, and enable a broad range of scientists to use simulation in their research:
Research and development activities proposed in response to the above solicitations must contribute in a clear and compelling way to the creation of the Scientific Computing Software Infrastructure as outlined in Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing. Awardees will become part of the overall team focused on the development of the Software Infrastructure and to participate in periodic team meetings.
b) Research and development of collaboratory and networking software to link geographically separated researchers, facilitate access to and movement of large (100s of terabytes to petabytes) data sets, and ensure that all qualified scientists can fully participate in the activities described above.
In many instances the activities in 2) will be targeted at the solution of problems in specific scientific areas, e.g., mathematical methods, algorithms, and libraries for climate modeling; data management and analysis for computational biology; or a distributed computing environment to support experimental work at high-energy physics accelerators. In other instances, these activities may focus on the solution of problems that crosscut a number of scientific areas. In all cases, it will be important to establish close interactions with the affected scientific areas. It is anticipated that up to $15 million will be available to fund 4-6 multidisciplinary research teams in the above areas.