NSF Applications Budget Code:  
Societal goals and the pursuit of fundamental knowledge in science and engineering identify the applications to be pursued. These applications fall into the following three categories:

High Performance Applications for Science and Engineering: These applications are intended to push the envelope of computational capabilities in order to enable new discoveries in science and engineering. Thus they require access to the highest performance computing systems available, interconnected by high speed networks. The Grand Challenge problems fall into this category.

High Confidence Applications for Dynamic Enterprises: These applications are intended to push the envelope of information processing in order to demonstrate and advance new technologies in the Information Age. Improvements in integration, privacy, security, and reliability of information flows within and across organizations are a consequence of pursuing these applications. Some of the National Challenge problems are examples of this type of application.

High Capability Applications for the Individual: These applications are focused on societal needs and are enabled by universal, easy to use access to information resources, powerful methods of presenting information for ease of understanding, and customization of 'information space' for personal use. National Challenges such as digital libraries and medical information servers are examples of this type of application.

These applications have one or both of the following attributes. They will drive and stress the enabling research areas outlined in the descriptions of Computing Systems, Human centered Systems, and Networking, Communications, and the Convergence of Computing &Communications given elsewhere in this document; they will lead to a paradigm shift in the application area involving a fundamentally different way of solving an important class of problems. The applications come from the physical and biological sciences, geosciences, social and behavioral sciences, and engineering.
Budget ($ M)
FY 95 Act  
FY 96 Pres  
FY 96 Est  
FY 97 Rqst 55.21
Program Component Areas
  FY 96 FY 97
HECC   25.49
LSN   8.20
HCS    
HuCS   9.66
ETHR   11.86
Agency Ties
DARPA Partner
NSF  
DOE  
NASA Partner
NIH  
NSA  
NIST Partner
NOAA Partner
EPA  
ED  
AHCPR  
VA  
Milestone Changes  
FY 1995 Actual Milestones FY 1996 Estimated Milestones FY 1997 Agency Requested Milestones
These are reported under Grand Challenges Applications Groups,Biological Sciences, Engineering, Geosciences, Computational Mathematics, Physical Sciences,Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, and National Challenges. These are reported under Grand Challenges Applications Groups,Biological Sciences, Engineering, Geosciences, Computational Mathematics, Physical Sciences,Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, and National Challenges. Continue support of the Grand Challenges and National Challenges initiated in FY 1993, FY 1994, and FY 1995.

Continue to support the paradigm shift involving increased use of high performance computing to enhance or replace the experimental phase of the scientific method.

Continue the Digital Library projects, a joint research initiative with DARPA and NASA, and support related new work in very large databases and knowledge repositories.