Charges/Reports

ASCAC Reports

The following is a listing of ASCAC charges and reports, and program responses.

 

 


December 2023

ASCAC is charged to identify new or upgraded facilities over the next 10-year horizon.

Charge Letter Dated December 1, 2023

Charge Template


June 2023

Correspondence from ASCAC to DOE with regard to the Exascale Computing Project workforce

Can the United States Maintain Its Leadership in High-Performance Computing?

Letter

March 2022

Subcommittee to:

Maintain world-leading capabilities in key technologies

  • How can the Department maintain critical international cooperation in an increasingly competitive environment for both talent and resources? In areas where the U.S. is leading, how can we sustain our roles and attract the best industry and international partners? In other areas, how can the Department build and maintain its reputation as a “partner of choice”? In general, are there barriers that can hinder our ability to form effective and enduring international and industry partnerships?
  • Identify key areas where the U.S. currently has, or could aspire to, leadership roles in advanced computing and high-end computational science and engineering, including unique or world-leading capabilities (i.e., advanced scientific facilities, testbeds and networks) or leading scientific and technical resources, such as highly trained personnel and supporting infrastructure. This may include emerging areas or opportunities that offer significant promise for leadership.
  • To preserve and foster U.S. leadership roles within reasonable resource constraints, are there particular technical areas or capabilities that could be emphasized? Are there
    other technical resources and capabilities that could be leveraged in to achieve these goals, possibly through collaborations within and beyond the ASCR community?
  • How can programs and facilities be structured to attract and retain talented people? What are the barriers to successfully advancing careers of scientific and technical personnel in advanced computing, computational science and engineering, and related fields and how can the Department address those barriers? A complete answer to these questions should address how we can ensure that we are recruiting, training, mentoring, and retaining the best talent from all over the world, including among traditionally underrepresented groups within the U.S.
  • Charge Letter Dated: March 22, 2022

July 2021

Subcommittee to:

  • Review the activities under [the collaboration between the Office of Science, the National Nuclear Security Administration, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI)] and to provide advice to the Office of Science regarding new opportunities that might contribute significantly to these efforts.
  • Identify any major challenges that are preventing the efforts from delivering on their potential.
  • Provide recommendations for how the Office of Science might address these challenges.

September 2020

Subcommittee to:

ASCR/ECP Transition


September 28 2022


April 2020

Documentation of the major impacts of ASCR and its predecessor organizations over four decades.


October 2019

Subcommittee to:
  • Assesses the opportunities and challenges from Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for the advancement of science, technology, and Office of Science missions.
  • Identifies strategies that ASCR can use, in coordination with the other SC programs, to address the challenges and deliver on the opportunities.

September 2018

Subcommittee to identify the key elements of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) that need to be transitioned into ASCR's research program


December 2017

Assess and document the historical accomplishments of the Advanced Scientific Computing
Research (ASCR) program and its predecessors over the past four decades.


June 2017

Independent review of Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) work of the DOE Laboratories (Labs)


11th April 2017

Independent review of Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) work of the DOE Laboratories (Labs)


December 2016

Opportunities and Challenges for Future High Performance Computing Capabilities


December 2015

Committee of Visitors (COV) Review of Next Generation Networking for Science (NGNS)


September 28, 2015

Subcommittee on Scientific and Technical Information Response to review of Matters associated with the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) charge


September 18, 2015

Exascale Computing Initiative (ECI) Review Subcommittee Response to ECI conceptual design review charge


March 2015

Committee of Visitors (COV) Review of Next Generation Networking for Science (NGNS)


March 2014

Committee of Visitors (COV) to review the management processes for the SciDAC portfolio


February 2014

Assessment of workforce development needs in Office of Science research disciplines


July 2013

Ten technical approaches to address the challenges of Exascale computing


March 2013

ASCAC Response to Facilities Charge


January 2013

ASCR Applied Math Committee of Visitors (COV)


December 2012

ASCR Facilities Charge


October 2012

ASCR Applied Math Committee of Visitors (COV)

Computer Science Program Committee of Visitors (COV)


August 2012

DOE data-intensive science and exascale


March 2011

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

America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010


November 2010

Next Generation Networking for Science Committee of Visitors


November 2009

Applied Math Committee of Visitors

Opportunities and Challenges of Exascale Computing


October 2008

Computer Science Committee of Visitors


August 2008

INCITE Committee of Visitors

Fusion Simulation Project Initiative

February 2008

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

March 2008

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

February 2008

Balance Charge

Networking Charge


April 13, 2007

Petascale Metrics Panel


December 1, 2006

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


November 10, 2006

Genomes to Life Partnership With BER


April 27, 2005

ACSR Facilities and Networking Research Programs Committee of Visitors


November 2004

Applied Mathematics, Computer Science Research, and Collaboratories Research COV


April 2004

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


March 17, 2003

Facilities Improvements


December 16, 2002

ASCAC Biotechnology Subcommittee


May 2002

Advanced Scientific Computing Initiative


August 2001

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