SciDAC and Advanced Scientific Computing: (the MICS program)

The mission of the Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences (MICS) program, is to discover, develop, and deploy the computational and networking tools that enable researchers in the scientific disciplines to analyze, model, simulate, and predict complex physical, chemical, and biological phenomena important to the Department of Energy. Four components of the SciDAC Initiative reside in the MICS program.

Applied Mathematics Integrated Software Infrastructure Centers (ISICs)

A critical component of the future success of SciDAC is the development of new high-performance scalable numerical algorithms for core numerical components of scientific simulation, and the distribution of those algorithms through portable high-performance libraries. Three Applied Mathematics Integrated Software Infrastructure Centers will take on the challenge of providing scalable numerical libraries. The Centers will provide new tools for (nearly) optimal complexity solvers for nonlinear partial differential equations based on multilevel methods, mybrid and adaptive mesh generation and high-order discretization techniques for representing complex, evolving domains, and tools for the efficient solution of partial differential equations based on locally structured grids, hybrid particle/mesh simulations and problems with multiple length scales.

Computer Science Integrated Software Infrastructure Centers (ISICs)

The software infrastructure vision of SciDAC is for a comprehensive, portable, and fully integrated suite of systems software and tools for the effective management and utilization of terascale computational resources by SciDAC applications. Computer Science Centers will work closely with SciDAC application teams and other ISIC Centers in achieving these goals. The following four Computer Science ISIC activities will address critical issues in high performance component software technology, large scale scientific data management, understanding application/architecture relationships for improved sustained performance, and scalable system software tools for improved management and utility of systems with thousands of processors.

National Collaboratory Software Environment Development Centers and Networking Research

DOE's investment in National Collaboratories includes SciDAC projects focused on the goal of creating collaboratory software environments to enable geographically separated scientists to effectively work together as a team and to facilitate remote access to both facilities and data.

Middleware Projects

Two projects are conducting research and development that will address individual technology elements to enable universal, ubiquitous, easy access to remote resources and to contribute to the ease with which distributed teams work together. Enabling high performance for scientific applications is especially important. Additional middleware efforts are supported under base program funding.

National Collaboratory Pilots

Four collaboratories are conducting research and development of enabling technologies that are integrated with and required by distributed scientific applications. Additional collaboratory efforts are supported under base program funding.

Scientific Application Pilot Programs (SAPP)

The Scientific Application Pilot Program (SAPP) provides support for targeted efforts to integrated new applied mathematics and computer science algorithms into the SciDAC applications projects. SAPP funding is intended to encourage strong liaisons between applications projects and ISICs. It will provide computational expertise in adapting high-performance algorithms to terascale computers, and also adapt numerical modules to include application-specific knowledge.

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Updated: Monday, 09-May-2005 09:16:36 EDT