July 21, 2022 — The next meeting of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), the federal advisory committee for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s program on Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), will take place on Thursday, July 21, and Friday, July 22, 2022, from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT (ending at 1:00 PM EDT on Friday) via Zoom. For information on how to join the meeting, please visit the ASCAC Meetings webpage.
The expected agenda for the meeting is as follows. Please note that the agenda is subject to change. All times are U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Thursday, July 21, 2022
| 10:00 AM – 10:05 AM | OPENING REMARKS FROM THE COMMITTEE CHAIR | Dan Reed, ASCAC |
| 10:05 AM – 10:45 AM | VIEW FROM GERMANTOWN | Barbara Helland, Associate Director of the Office of Science for Advanced Scientific Computing Research |
| 10:45 AM – 11:15 AM | PROGRAM RESPONSE TO REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS | Ceren Susut, Research Division Director, Advanced Scientific Computing Research |
| 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM | UPDATE ON EXASCALE SYSTEMS – FRONTIER | Justin Whitt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 12:00 PM – 12:15 PM | ASCAC DISCUSSION ON FUTURE OF ADVANCED COMPUTING | |
| 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM | LUNCH | |
| 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM | GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) COLLABORATIONS WITH DOE AT THE EXASCALE | Rick Arthur, GE Research and ASCAC |
| 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | BESAC ASSESSMENT ON INTERNATIONAL STANDING | Cynthia M. Friend, President of the Kavli Foundation and Dr. Jeff Miller, Harvard |
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | OPTIMIZING THE PERFORMANCE OF FUSION REACTORS AT EXASCALE | Noah Mandell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and DOE CSGF Alumnus and Howes Scholar |
| 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | ASCR LEADERSHIP COMPUTING CHALLENGE PORTFOLIO FOR 22-23 ALLOCATION YEAR | Jordan Thomas, ASCR |
| 4:00 PM | PUBLIC COMMENT | |
| ADJOURN FOR THE DAY |
Friday, July 22, 2022
| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | DYNAMIC MODELING AND OPTIMAL SCHEDULING OF CHEMICAL PROCESSES PARTICIPATING IN FAST-CHANGING ELECTRICITY MARKETS |
Morgan Kelley, Dell Technologies and DOE CSGF Alumna and Howes Scholar |
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | VIEW FROM WASHINGTON | Asmeret Berhe, Director of the Office of Science |
| 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TESTBEDS AT ARGONNE | Venkat Vishwanath, Argonne National Laboratory |
| 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM | EXASCALE COMPUTING PROJECT UPDATE – SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES | Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories and Todd Munson, Argonne National Laboratory |
| 1:00 PM | PUBLIC COMMENT |
