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This paper gives an overview of the federal High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC) Program. This initiative involves the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA), the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Its goal is to advance U.S. science and industrial competitiveness by supporting the development of teraops high performance systems, the software and algorithms required to render those massively parallel systems efficiently usable, and the Gigabit networks to make those machines accessible, as well as to broaden the base of computationally literate scientists. We outline the HPCC effort and the rationale underlying it, and give an overview of some of the “Grand Challenge” work under way at Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division, as well as the Grand Challenges addressed by NASA’s Computational Aerosciences program.
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Bischof, C., Simon, H.D. (1992). The Implementation of the U.S. High Performance Computing and Communications Program. In: Meuer, HW. (eds) Supercomputer ’92. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77661-8_16
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