The Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), established on August 12, 1999, provides valuable, independent advice to the Department of Energy on a variety of complex scientific and technical issues related to its Advanced Scientific Computing Research program.

MEETINGS

March 5-6, 2013

The Spring 2013 ASCAC meeting will be held at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Washington DC.

Previous Meetings:

CHARGES

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December 2012

ASCR Facilities Charge

• Charge Letter (790KB) Dated: December 20, 2012

October 2012

ASCR Applied Math Committee of Visitors (COV)

• Charge Letter  (367KB)Dated: October 31, 2012

Computer Science Program Committee of Visitors (COV)

• Charge Letter  (696KB)Dated: October 18, 2012
• Report Transmittal Letter (203KB)
• COV Report (181KB)
• Program Response to the COV Recommendations (104KB)

August 2012

DOE data-intensive science and exascale

• Charge (80KB) Dated: July 25, 2012

March 2011

Department of Energy's Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) Charge

• Charge (545KB) Dated: March 7, 2011
• Report Transmittal Letter (57KB)
• Subcommittee Report (196KB)

America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010

• Charge (1.4MB) Dated: February 25, 2011
• Data Dissemination Policies and Practices (59KB)

November 2010

Next Generation Networking for Science Committee of Visitors

• Charge Letter (81KB) Dated: Oct 13, 2010
• COV Report (156KB)
• Program Response to the COV Recommendations (42KB)

November 2009

Applied Math Committee of Visitors

• Charge (93KB) Dated: October 30, 2009
• Applied Math COV Transmittal Letter (20KB)
• ASCAC Committee of Visitors (COV) Applied Mathematics Program Report (261KB)
• Program Response to the COV Recommendations (15KB)

Opportunities and Challenges of Exascale Computing

• Charge (48KB) Dated: October 29, 2009
• Transmittal Letter of Interim Report from ASCAC (359KB)
• Interim Report (1.1MB)
• Letter reporting ASCAC's Progress on Exascale Charge and Summarizing Key Findings (18KB)
• Exascale Subcommittee Report (2.1MB)

October 2008

Computer Science Committee of Visitors

• Charge (648KB) Dated: October 15, 2008
• ASCAC Committee of Visitors (COV) Computer Science Report (357KB)
• Program Response to the COV Recommendations (16KB)

August 2008

INCITE Committee of Visitors

• Charge (403KB) Dated: October 17, 2007
• ASCAC Committee of Visitors (COV) Report on INCITE (1.1MB)
• Program Response to COV Recommendations (13KB)

Fusion Simulation Project Initiative

• Charge (250KB) Dated: October 17, 2007
• ASCAC Panel Report on the Fusion Simulation Project  (1.6MB)

February 2008

SciDAC COV and Joint ASCR/BERAC Subcommittee on Modeling and Simulation for GTL

• Charge (1.6MB) Dated: February 22, 2007
• ASCAC COV Report on SciDAC-2 (313KB)
• Program Response to SciDAC-2 COV (20KB)
• Joint ASCR/BERAC Subcommittee on Modeling and Simulation for GTL Report  (394KB)

March 2008

Joint ASCAC/BERAC Subcommittee on Identifying Computational and Information Technology Obstacles Pacing Progress

• Charge (414KB) Dated: June 26, 2007
• Report on Computational and Informational Technology Rate Limiters to the Advancement of Climate Change Science (148KB)

February 2008

Balance Charge

• Charge (1.1MB) Dated: June 26, 2007
• ASCAC Balance Panel Report (309KB)

Networking Charge

• Charge (9.5MB) Dated March 10, 2006
• Data Communications Needs: Advancing the Frontiers of Science Through Advanced Networks and Networking Research  (939KB)

April 13, 2007

Petascale Metrics Panel

• Report on Petascale Computing Metrics (438KB)

December 1, 2006

Evaluation of the Long Term Goal of Enabling Effective Modeling of Complex Systems

• Report from the Subcommittee on the Evaluation of the Long Term Goal of Enabling Effective Modeling of Complex Systems  (21KB)

November 10, 2006

Genomes to Life Partnership With BER

• Evaluation of the Long Term Goal of Demonstrating Progress Toward Developing Computational Models of a Microbe and a Simple Microbial Community (50KB)

April 27, 2005

ACSR Facilities and Networking Research Programs Committee of Visitors

• ASCR Facilities and Network Testbeds and Research Programs COV Report (169KB)
• Program Response to COV Report

November 2004

Applied Mathematics, Computer Science Research, and Collaboratories Research COV

• Applied Mathematics, Computer Research and Collaboratories Research COV Report
• Program Response to COV Report (20KB)

April 2004

Committee of Visitors (COV) of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and Collaboratories Programs

• Charge (Part 2) (186KB) Dated August 15, 2003
• Committee of Visitors (COV) Report of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and Collaboratories Programs (124KB)

March 17, 2003

Facilities Improvements

• Charge (306KB) Dated: December 18, 2002
• Preliminary ASCAC Facilities Recommendations (21KB)

December 16, 2002

ASCAC Biotechnology Subcommittee

• Charge (149KB) Dated: April 19, 2001
• ASCAC Final Report of the Biotechnology Subcommittee (134KB)

May 2002

Advanced Scientific Computing Initiative

• Charge (Part 1) (186KB) Dated: August 15, 2003
• ASCAC Facilities Committee Report (including the impact of the Earth Simulator) (53KB)
• Memo from ASCAC Advisory Committee Members to Ray Orbach on Earth Simulator (18KB)

August 2001

High-Performance Computational Needs and Capabilities in the Office of Science

• Charge (316KB) Dated: August 24, 2001
• Final Report of the High-End Computing Subcommittee (134KB)