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

The next Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) meeting will be held this coming Fall – more details will be posted here soon

Previous Meetings:

CHARGES

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March 2013

ASCAC Response to Facilities Charge

• Transmittal Letter (70KB)
• Response (169KB)

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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
• Transmittal Letter (72KB)
• Report (11.5MB) 

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)