Accelerated Simulation and Computing Program Plan 2002-2003; DOE/DP/ASC-2002-ASCI-Prog-002
Washington DC: United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs, 2002. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. iv, 55, [3] pages. Illustrations. Acronyms & Abbreviations. Glossary. This type of document is very ephemeral and it is believed that very few copies have survived in the more than two decades since it was issued. The United States government's Strategic Computing Initiative funded research into advanced computer hardware and artificial intelligence from 1983 to 1993. The initiative was designed to support various projects that were required to develop machine intelligence in a prescribed ten-year time frame, from chip design and manufacture, computer architecture to artificial intelligence software. The project was superseded in the 1990s by the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative and then by the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program. These later programs did not include artificial general intelligence as a goal, but instead focused on supercomputing for large scale simulation, such as atomic bomb simulations. The Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (or ASC) is a super-computing program run by the National Nuclear Security Administration, in order to simulate, test, and maintain the United States nuclear stockpile. The program was created in 1995 in order to support the Stockpile Stewardship Program (or SSP). The goal of the initiative is to extend the lifetime of the current aging stockpile. Among the sections in the Table of Contents are: Stockpile Stewardship, Defense Applications, Computer Science, Integrated Computing Systems, Strategic Alliances, Verification and Validation, Physics Modeling, Weapons Simulation, Modeling and Simulation, Level 1 Milestones, High Explosives, Advanced Visualization, Detonation Wave, Titan IV Solid Rocket Motor, Metropolis Center, JCEL. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: ASCI, Accelerated Strategic Computing, Program Plan, Stockpile Stewardship, Nuclear Weapons, High-Performance Computing, Defense Applications, Computer Science, Integrated Computing Systems, Strategic Alliances, Verification and Validation, Physics M
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