Charges/Reports
ASCAC Reports
The following is a listing of ASCAC charges and reports, and program responses.
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?
A report from the ASCAC Subcommittee on American Competitiveness and Innovation to the ASCR office.
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
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.
- Charge Letter Dated: July 27, 2021
- Report Dated September 30, 2022
Subcommittee to:
ASCR/ECP Transition
- Report (Final)
Documentation of the major impacts of ASCR and its predecessor organizations over four decades.
- ASCR@40: Highlights and Impacts of ASCR's Programs
- ASCR@40: Four Decades of Department of Energy Leadership in Advanced Scientific Computer Research
- ASCR@40: Topical One Pagers
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.
Subcommittee to identify the key elements of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) that need to be transitioned into ASCR's research program
Assess and document the historical accomplishments of the Advanced Scientific Computing
Research (ASCR) program and its predecessors over the past four decades.
Independent review of Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) work of the DOE Laboratories (Labs)
- Subcommittee on LDRD Review
Independent review of Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) work of the DOE Laboratories (Labs)
- Subcommittee on LDRD Review
Opportunities and Challenges for Future High Performance Computing Capabilities
Committee of Visitors (COV) Review of Next Generation Networking for Science (NGNS)
Subcommittee on Scientific and Technical Information Response to review of Matters associated with the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) charge
Exascale Computing Initiative (ECI) Review Subcommittee Response to ECI conceptual design review charge
Committee of Visitors (COV) Review of Next Generation Networking for Science (NGNS)
Committee of Visitors (COV) to review the management processes for the SciDAC portfolio
- Charge Letter
- ASCAC COV Report on SciDAC
- ASCR Response to ASCAC COV Report on SciDAC
Assessment of workforce development needs in Office of Science research disciplines
Ten technical approaches to address the challenges of Exascale computing
ASCAC Response to Facilities Charge
ASCR Applied Math Committee of Visitors (COV)
- COV Report
- ASCR Responseto the Report
ASCR Facilities Charge
ASCR Applied Math Committee of Visitors (COV)
Computer Science Program Committee of Visitors (COV)
DOE data-intensive science and exascale
Department of Energy's Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) Charge
America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010
Next Generation Networking for Science Committee of Visitors
Applied Math Committee of Visitors
- Charge
- Applied Math COV Transmittal Letter
- ASCAC Committee of Visitors (COV) Applied Mathematics Program Report
- Program Response to the COV Recommendations
Opportunities and Challenges of Exascale Computing
- Charge
- Transmittal Letter of Interim Report from ASCAC
- Interim Report
- Letter reporting ASCAC's Progress on Exascale Charge and Summarizing Key Findings
- Exascale Subcommittee Report
Computer Science Committee of Visitors
- Charge
- ASCAC Committee of Visitors (COV) Computer Science Report
- Program Response to the COV Recommendations
INCITE Committee of Visitors
Fusion Simulation Project Initiative
SciDAC COV and Joint ASCR/BERAC Subcommittee on Modeling and Simulation for GTL
- Charge
- ASCAC COV Report on SciDAC-2
- Program Response to SciDAC-2 COV
- Joint ASCR/BERAC Subcommittee on Modeling and Simulation for GTL Report
Joint ASCAC/BERAC Subcommittee on Identifying Computational and Information Technology Obstacles Pacing Progress
- Charge
- Report on Computational and Informational Technology Rate Limiters to the Advancement of Climate Change Science
Balance Charge
Networking Charge
- Charge
- Data Communications Needs: Advancing the Frontiers of Science Through Advanced Networks and Networking Research
Petascale Metrics Panel
Evaluation of the Long Term Goal of Enabling Effective Modeling of Complex Systems
Genomes to Life Partnership With BER
ACSR Facilities and Networking Research Programs Committee of Visitors
- ASCR Facilities and Network Testbeds and Research Programs COV Report
- Program Response to COV Report
Applied Mathematics, Computer Science Research, and Collaboratories Research COV
- Applied Mathematics, Computer Research and Collaboratories Research COV Report
- Program Response to COV Report
Committee of Visitors (COV) of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and Collaboratories Programs
- Charge (Part 2)
- Committee of Visitors (COV) Report of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and Collaboratories Programs
Facilities Improvements
ASCAC Biotechnology Subcommittee
Advanced Scientific Computing Initiative
- Charge (Part 1)
- ASCAC Facilities Committee Report (including the impact of the Earth Simulator)
- Memo from ASCAC Advisory Committee Members to Ray Orbach on Earth Simulator
High-Performance Computational Needs and Capabilities in the Office of Science
