FY02 Advanced Simulation and Computing Implementation Plan Vol. 2, October 1, 2001 Rev. 2; DOE/DP 99002938 Vol. 2, Rev. 2
Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories, 2001. Presumed First printing thus. Spiral bound. Volume 2 [ONLY] starts with the Table of Contents and Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms (xx pages) and then goes to Chapter 2 Simulation and Computer Science.(154 pages. Chapter 3 is Integrated Computing Systems (ICS) (36 pages). Chapter 4 is University Partnerships (158 pages). Chapter 5 is ASCI Special Projects (4 pages followed by a distribution list) and appears to complete the implementation plan. Chapter 2 has sections on Problem Solving Environment, Distance and Distributed Computing and Communications (DisCom2), Path Forward, and Visual Interactive Environment for Weapons Simulation (VIEWS). Chapter 3 has sections on Physical Infrastructure and Platforms, Ongoing Computing, and Advanced Architecture. Chapter 4 has sections on Academic Strategic Alliance Program, Institutes and Fellowship Programs. Chapter 5 has sections on ASCI Research Exhibit as SC2001 and One Program--Three Laboratories. While the increase in computing power over the past 50 years has been staggering, the scientific community will require unprecedented computer speeds as well as massive memory and disk storage to address the pressing problems that the nation will face in the 21st century. One such problem is ensuring the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear arsenal while fully adhering to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. To address this problem, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) established the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) in 1996. The goal of ASCI is to simulate the results of new weapons designs as well as the effects of aging on existing and new designs, all in the absence of additional data from underground nuclear tests. This is a daunting challenge and requires simulation capabilities that far surpass those available today. With funding from ASCI, the computer industry has already installed three computer systems, one at Sandia National Laboratories (built by Intel), one at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) (an SGI-Cray computer), and another at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) (an IBM computer), that can sustain more than 1 teraflops on real applications. At the time they were installed, each of these computers was as much as 20 times more powerful than those at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Supercomputer Centers, the National Energy Research Supercomputing Center, and other laboratories. By 2002, the computer industry planned to deliver a system 10 times more powerful than these two systems and, in between, another computer will be delivered that has three times the power of the LANL/LLNL computers. The ASCI is an applications-driven effort with a goal to develop reliable computational models of the physical and chemical processes involved in the design, manufacture, and degradation of nuclear weapons. Based on detailed discussions with scientists and engineers with expertise in weapons design, manufacturing, and aging and in computational physics and chemistry, a goal of simulating full-system, three-dimensional nuclear burn and safety simulation processes was established. A number of intermediate, applications-based milestones were identified to mark the progress from our current simulation capabilities to full-system simulation capabilities. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: ASCI, Strategic Computing, Modeling, Simulation, Visualization, Information Sciences, Distributed Computing, Distance Computing, Ultra-Scale, Production Computing
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