March 2014

AGENDA
ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Monday, March 31, 2014
American Geophysical Union - 2000 Florida Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

Time Event
8:00 AM

Public Registration

8:00 AM-
8:30 AM

ASCAC Annual Ethics briefing –session intended for ASCAC and the public do not need to attend
Brian Plesser, DOE General Counsel

8:30 AM-
8:35 AM

Opening remarks from the committee chair
Roscoe Giles, ASCAC

8:35 AM-
9:30 AM

View from WASHINGTON
Patricia Dehmer, Acting Director of the Office of Science

9:30 AM-
10:00 AM

View from Germantown
Steven Binkley, Associate Director of the Office of Science for ASCR

10:00 AM-
10:15 AM

Break

10:15 AM-
11:00 AM
 CORAL UPDATE
Susan Coghlan, Argonne National Laboratory and Buddy Bland, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
11:00 AM- 11:30 AM

Top Ten approaches to exascale subcommittee REPORT summary
Roscoe Giles, ASCAC

11:30 AM- NOON

NEW CHARGE – WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Steven Binkley, Associate Director of the Office of Science for ASCR

NOON
1:30 PM

Committee Lunch

1:30 PM-
2:00 PM

TOWARDS A NEW HPCG BENCHMARK
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2:00 PM-2:30 PM
Argonne Ledership Computing training program
Paul Messina, Argonne National Laboratory
2:30 PM- 3:15 PM
CO-DESIGN UPDATE
Andrew Siegel, Director of CESAR, Argonne National Laboratory
3:15 PM-3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM-4:00 PM

Program Response to Applied Mathematics COV 
Sandy Landsberg, ASCR

4:00 PM-
4:15 PM

New Charge SciDAC COV
Steve Binkley, ASCR

4:15 PM- 4:45 PM

ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge
Carolyn Lauzon, ASCR

4:45 PM-
5:00 PM

Public Comment after which ASCAC will Adjurn