August 2009

The August 11-12, 2009 ASCAC meeting was held at the American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2000 Florida Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. 20009-1277 USA.

• Agenda

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AGENDA

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Time	Event
8:00 AM 9:00 AM	PUBLIC REGISTRATION
8:30 AM 9:00 AM	SWEARING IN OF NEW MEMBERS(S) - session intended for ASCAC and the public do not need to attend DOE Human Resources
9:00 AM 9:05 AM	OPENING REMARKS FROM THE COMMITTEE CHAIR Roscoe Giles, ASCAC
9:05 AM 10:00 AM	OFFICE OF SCIENCE UPDATE William Brinkman, Director of the Office of Science
10:00 AM 10:15 AM	BREAK
10:15 AM 11:00 AM	ASCR UPDATE Michael Strayer, ASCR
11:00 AM 11:45 AM	DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SCIENCE Steven Koonin, Under Secretary for Science
11:45 AM 1:00 PM	COMMITTEE LUNCH
1:00 PM 1:45 PM	HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY Steve Hammond, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
1:45 PM 2:30 PM	DISCUSSION OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL'S REPORT ON THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF HIGH-END CAPABILITY COMPUTING ON FOUR ILLUSTRATIVE FIELDS OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Phil Colella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2:30 PM 2:45 PM	BREAK
2:45 PM 3:30 PM	EMERGING STANDARDS AND TOOLS RELATED DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING COMPILER INFRASTRUCTURE AND OPTIMIZATION Roch Archambault, IBM Toronto Lab
3:30 PM 4:00 PM	ARRA UPDATE - MAGELLAN (CLOUD COMPUTING FOR SCIENCE), LEADERSHIP COMPUTING UPGRADE, AND ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES Dan Hitchcock, ASCR
4:00 PM 4:45 PM	ARRA UPDATE - ADVANCED NETWORKING INITIATIVE, SCIDAC-E Vince Dattoria and Walt Polansky, ASCR
4:45 PM 5:00 PM	PUBLIC COMMENT
5:00 PM	ADJOURN FOR THE DAY
DINNER SPEAKER	SOMMER GENTRY U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY

AGENDA

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Time	Event
8:30 AM 9:15 AM	Update from the ASCAC Committee of Visitors Dona Crawford, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
9:15 AM 10:00 AM	HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AT THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Ed Seidel, National Science Foundation
10:00 AM 10:15 AM	BREAK
10:15 AM 11:00 AM	REPORT ON "CHALLENGES IN CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE AND THE ROLE OF COMPUTING AT THE EXTREME SCALE" Warren Washington, National Center for Atmospheric Research
11:00 AM 11:45 AM	PETASCALE SCIENCE Doug Kothe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
11:45 AM 12:00 PM	PUBLIC COMMENT
12:00 PM	ADJOURN FOR THE DAY

Highlights

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(a) Fiber spools used for realizing a telescoping suite of fiber connections. (b) entanglement throughput measurements and corresponding capacity estimates by light measurements on a Polatis all-optical switch and at the source and detector.

Scientists Compare Throughput for Quantum vs. Conventional Networks

A comparison of throughput measurements and analytical capacity estimates for quantum networks finds surprising patterns.

Evolution paths of the single control qubit on the Bloch sphere in the hybrid approach to Grover’s algorithm.

Novel Hardware Approach Produces a New Quantum Computing Paradigm

New theoretical approach to quantum computing hardware design via an algorithm avoids some of the complex difficulties in modern quantum computers.

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