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Computer Science position open

ASCR has officially posted the position for a DOE Computer Scientist Program Manager – opened 8/24/2012 and closes by 11pm Eastern Time on 9/6/2012. Apply here:

ASCR will soon have openings for Program Managers. At this time, the positions have not been officially posted. However, interested candidates should monitor the DOE Office of Science jobs site (http://science.energy.gov/about/jobs#programs) and begin gathering the required materials. After the position has been posted, applicants will have to complete information on qualifications and other details. Applicants will need an account on the USAJOBS site (http://www.usajobs.gov/External link) and it is essential that they are prepared to provide transcripts for graduate and undergraduate education when submitting their application. Summary of the positions »

ASCR PI Elected to National Academy of Sciences

John Bell, an applied mathematician and computational scientist with support from ASCR, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences on May 1, 2012, in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. More External link

Call for Proposals on Extreme-scale Solvers

The US Department of Energy, Office of Science has just posted the following Funding Opportunity Announcement: DE-FOA-0000742, Resilient Extreme-Scale Solvers (“RX-Solvers”) http://science.doe.gov/grants/pdf/SC_FOA_0000742.pdf and corresponding Lab announcement http://science.doe.gov/grants/pdf/LAB_12-742.pdf

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Titan Super Computer

OLCF completes first phase of Titan upgrade



Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's Jaguar supercomputer has completed the first phase of an upgrade that will keep it among the most powerful scientific computing systems in the world. MoreExternal link

ASCR's New Ultra-High Speed Network Will Keep America

On The Cutting Edge Of Innovation

The Advanced Networking Initiative (ANI), a $62 million ARRA funded project, will soon upgrade the Energy Sciences Network to 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps), about 10 times faster than most commercial Internet providers. ESnet allows thousands of DOE researchers to work with colleagues and partners all around the world. More »

ASCR INCITE Program Allocates Access to DOE Supercomputers

Sixty projects were awarded a total of 1.7 billion hours of computing time on some of the worlds most powerful supercomputers as part of the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program. The INCITE program, now in its ninth year, is the major means by which the scientific community gains access to these supercomputers. More »

ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) Program in the News

A recent "Digital Manufacturing Report" article highlights the high-risk, big payoffs of the ASCR ALCC program. The ALCC allocates up to 30% of the computational resources at NERSC and the Leadership Computing Facilities at Argonne and Oak Ridge for special situations of interest to the Department's energy mission. Link to the to DMR articleExternal link to learn more about the program.

Leveraging ASCR Investments in Software Tools to the Broad Computational Community

Barriers to adoption of HPC modeling and simulation by the industrial computational science community can be tackled by getting DOE software in the hands of independent software vendors (ISVs) via SBIR/STTR.

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Read about the awards in Digital Manufacturing Report External link

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