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| FY 2008 Budget Request |
| Increases Drive Science Towards the Petascale Era |
| The President’s fiscal year (FY) 2008 budget request was delivered to Congress in February 2007. This budget request furthered the President’s commitment to the American Competitiveness Initiative (sidebar “American Competitiveness Initiative,” SciDAC Review, Fall 2006, p53) by providing significant increases throughout the Office of Science, including Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR). Of particular note were increases in facilities that will initiate the era of petascale computing for open science at the ORNL Leadership Computing Facility.
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| In addition, there were significant increases in core research in applied mathematics to support critical long-term mathematical research issues relevant to petascale science (+$2,000,000), research in optimization control and risk analysis in complex systems (+$1,900,000), and increased research in multiscale mathematics (+$2,505,000). Total support for multiscale mathematics will be $11,000,000 in FY 2008. |
Increases in core research in computer science will have a focus on strengthening long-term research in computer science to ensure that scientific applications can fully exploit future hardware performance. In the software environment area, additional funding (+$4,137,000) will focus on developing software and tools to enable both experienced and new researchers to make effective use of petascale systems at the national Leadership Computing Facilities and at the supercomputer facilities. These new enabling tools will include integrated/intelligent software development environments and new generation debugging and performance analysis tools providing improved ease-of-use at the petascale. Budget increases in data analyses, management, and visualization (+$1,000,000) will focus on accelerated visualization, uncertainty, and user interface environments.
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