US Government Offers New Advanced Computing Strategy Centered on Key National Priorities
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Authors: Bob Sorensen, Thomas Gerard
Publication Date: December 2020
Length: 5 pages
The US Government’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently released a Federal strategic plan for a whole-of-nation approach to pioneering the future national advanced computing ecosystem that targets key application drivers and strategic objectives considered essential to US leadership, economic competitiveness, and national security. The plan specifically called out three critical application areas:
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- Extreme scale modeling and simulation
- Data-intensive application workflows
- End-to-end and real-time application workflows
The plan also arrays a number of key strategic objectives, including:
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- The development of an advanced ecosystem that spans government, academia, non-profits and industry
- The support of foundational, applied and translational research
- The expansion of a diverse, capable and flexible workforce
The strategic plan delineates US government agency roles and responsibilities and describes essential operational and coordination structures necessary to support and implement its objectives.
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