Draft2:Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
Template:Notable articlesThe Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program was created to bring together many of the nation's top researchers to develop new computational methods for tackling some of the most challenging scientific problems.
It initiated in 2001 as a partnership involving all of the Office of Science (SC) program offices to dramatically accelerate progress in scientific computing that delivers breakthrough scientific results through partnerships comprised of applied mathematicians, computer scientists, and scientists from other disciplines.
The SciDAC program is recognized as the leader in accelerating the use of high-performance computing to advance the state of knowledge in science applications.
Mission
The mission of the SciDAC-4 institutes is to provide intellectual resources in
- applied mathematics and computer science
- expertise in algorithms and methods and
- scientific software tools
to advance scientific discovery through modeling and simulation in areas of strategic importance to the Department of Energy and the Office of Science (SC).
Participants
Institutes
There are currently 2 SciDAC institutes with 24 participating institutions and a total annual funding of $12 million.
Partnerships
30 SciDAC partnership projects are co-funded by Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) with the Program Offices in the
- Office of Science (SC)
- Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
- High-Energy Physics (HEP)
- Nuclear Physics (NP)
- Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
Universities
- Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
- California State University, Northridge, CA
- City University of New York, New York, NY
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
- Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, CA
- Regents of the University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
- Regents of the University of California - UCSD, La Jolla, CA
- Regents of the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
- Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
- Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY
- University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
- University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
- University of Delaware, Newark, DE
- University of Maryland, College Park, MD
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
- University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
- University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
- University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
- Utah State University, Logan, UT
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
- Yale University, New Haven, CT
Laboratories
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Lemont, IL
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ
- Sandia National Laboratories, California (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA
- Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab), Newport News, VA
Industry
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA
- Kitware Inc., Clifton Park, NY
- Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO
- The HDF Group, Champaign, IL
History
The SciDAC program was re-competed in 2006 and in 2011, and the partnerships were extended to include the DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Through partnerships with ASCR-funded mathematicians and computer scientists, SciDAC applications pursued computational solutions to challenging problems in climate science, fusion research, high energy physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, material science, chemistry, particle accelerators, biology and the reactive subsurface flow of contaminants through groundwater.
SciDAC was re-competed a fourth time in 2017 to enable scientific breakthroughs on pre-exascale computing architectures. The partnerships now include Office of Nuclear Energy in addition to all 6 SC programs.
SciDAC projects pursue computational solutions to challenging problems in
- climate science
- fusion research
- high-energy physics
- nuclear physics
- astrophysics
- material science
- chemistry
- particle accelerators
- nuclear fuels
It ensure that progress at the frontiers of science is enhanced by advances in computational technology, most pressingly, the emergence of the hybrid and many-core architectures and machine learning techniques.
Portfolios
Historical information on the previous portfolios can be found on the SciDAC website.
Technology for Advanced Scientific Component Software
The SciDAC Center for Technology for Advanced Scientific Component Software (TASCS) is lead by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Focus Areas and Research Objectives:
- CCA Environment – Supporting and improving the foundation of the CCA environment – Coordinator: Tom Epperly, LLNL
- CCA Toolkit – Making it easier to create components, and making available a suite of real, useful components – Coordinator: Rob Armstrong, SNL
- Component Technology Initiatives – How can we exploit the component environment to provide computational scientists with better ways to develop their software? – Coordinator: Lois McInnes, ANL
- User Outreach & Application Support – Broaden awareness and adoption of component technology and the CCA – Coordinator: David Bernholdt, ORNL
http://tascs-scidac.org and tascs-leads@cca-forum.org
Computational Facility for Reacting Flow Science
Computational Facility for Reacting Flow Science (CFRFS) is a toolkit to perform simulations of combustion and shock hydrodynamics
Framework Application for Core-Edge Transport Simulations
Framework Application for Core-Edge Transport Simulations (FACETS) is integrated modeling of plasma core, edge, and wall: prototype for Fusion Simulation Project (FSP).
Contact
- Office of Advanced Scientific Computing (SC-21)
- Germantown Building
- Phone: (301) 903-7486
- Fax: (301) 903-4846
- scidac-web@ornl.gov