[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
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[H.R. 874 Referred in Senate (RFS)]
114th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 874
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 20, 2015
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources
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AN ACT
To amend the Department of Energy High-End Computing Revitalization Act
of 2004 to improve the high-end computing research and development
program of the Department of Energy, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``American Super Computing Leadership
Act''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
Section 2 of the Department of Energy High-End Computing
Revitalization Act of 2004 (15 U.S.C. 5541) is amended by striking
paragraphs (1) through (5) and inserting the following:
``(1) Co-design.--The term `co-design' means the joint
development of application algorithms, models, and codes with
computer technology architectures and operating systems to
maximize effective use of high-end computing systems.
``(2) Department.--The term `Department' means the
Department of Energy.
``(3) Exascale.--The term `exascale' means computing system
performance at or near 10 to the 18th power floating point
operations per second.
``(4) High-end computing system.--The term `high-end
computing system' means a computing system with performance
that substantially exceeds that of systems that are commonly
available for advanced scientific and engineering applications.
``(5) Institution of higher education.--The term
`institution of higher education' has the meaning given the
term in section 2 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C.
15801).
``(6) Leadership system.--The term `leadership system'
means a high-end computing system that is among the most
advanced in the world in terms of performance in solving
scientific and engineering problems.
``(7) National laboratory.--The term `National Laboratory'
means any one of the seventeen laboratories owned by the
Department.
``(8) Secretary.--The term `Secretary' means the Secretary
of Energy.
``(9) Software technology.--The term `software technology'
includes optimal algorithms, programming environments, tools,
languages, and operating systems for high-end computing
systems.''.
SEC. 3. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY HIGH-END COMPUTING RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
Section 3 of the Department of Energy High-End Computing
Revitalization Act of 2004 (15 U.S.C. 5542) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``program'' and
inserting ``coordinated program across the
Department'';
(B) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph
(1);
(C) by striking the period at the end of paragraph
(2) and inserting ``; and''; and
(D) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
``(3) partner with universities, National Laboratories, and
industry to ensure the broadest possible application of the
technology developed in this program to other challenges in
science, engineering, medicine, and industry.'';
(2) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ``vector'' and all
that follows through ``architectures'' and inserting ``computer
technologies that show promise of substantial reductions in
power requirements and substantial gains in parallelism of
multicore processors, concurrency, memory and storage,
bandwidth, and reliability''; and
(3) by striking subsection (d) and inserting the following:
``(d) Exascale Computing Program.--
``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall conduct a
coordinated research program to develop exascale computing
systems to advance the missions of the Department.
``(2) Execution.--The Secretary shall, through competitive
merit review, establish two or more National Laboratory-
industry-university partnerships to conduct integrated
research, development, and engineering of multiple exascale
architectures, and--
``(A) conduct mission-related co-design activities
in developing such exascale platforms;
``(B) develop those advancements in hardware and
software technology required to fully realize the
potential of an exascale production system in
addressing Department target applications and solving
scientific problems involving predictive modeling and
simulation and large-scale data analytics and
management; and
``(C) explore the use of exascale computing
technologies to advance a broad range of science and
engineering.
``(3) Administration.--In carrying out this program, the
Secretary shall--
``(A) provide, on a competitive, merit-reviewed
basis, access for researchers in United States
industry, institutions of higher education, National
Laboratories, and other Federal agencies to these
exascale systems, as appropriate; and
``(B) conduct outreach programs to increase the
readiness for the use of such platforms by domestic
industries, including manufacturers.
``(4) Reports.--
``(A) Integrated strategy and program management
plan.--The Secretary shall submit to Congress, not
later than 90 days after the date of enactment of the
American Super Computing Leadership Act, a report
outlining an integrated strategy and program management
plan, including target dates for prototypical and
production exascale platforms, interim milestones to
reaching these targets, functional requirements, roles
and responsibilities of National Laboratories and
industry, acquisition strategy, and estimated resources
required, to achieve this exascale system capability.
The report shall include the Secretary's plan for
Departmental organization to manage and execute the
Exascale Computing Program, including definition of the
roles and responsibilities within the Department to
ensure an integrated program across the Department. The
report shall also include a plan for ensuring balance
and prioritizing across ASCR subprograms in a flat or
slow-growth budget environment.
``(B) Status reports.--At the time of the budget
submission of the Department for each fiscal year, the
Secretary shall submit a report to Congress that
describes the status of milestones and costs in
achieving the objectives of the exascale computing
program.
``(C) Exascale merit report.--At least 18 months
prior to the initiation of construction or installation
of any exascale-class computing facility, the Secretary
shall transmit a plan to the Congress detailing--
``(i) the proposed facility's cost
projections and capabilities to significantly
accelerate the development of new energy
technologies;
``(ii) technical risks and challenges that
must be overcome to achieve successful
completion and operation of the facility; and
``(iii) an independent assessment of the
scientific and technological advances expected
from such a facility relative to those expected
from a comparable investment in expanded
research and applications at terascale-class
and petascale-class computing facilities,
including an evaluation of where investments
should be made in the system software and
algorithms to enable these advances.''.
Passed the House of Representatives May 19, 2015.
Attest:
KAREN L. HAAS,
Clerk.