The goal of the EPA's HPCC program is to accelerate the evolution of high-end computing technologies and their use to meet environmental protection mission objectives. HPCC technology enables more effective, scientifically defensible, and timely environmental decision making resulting in economic benefits for states and industry by reducing the cost of achieving legislated environmental standards and by increasing the market for HPCC technologies. Research focuses on high-end computing technologies required to facilitate multi-pollutant, multi-scale, cross media environmental modeling, risk assessments, and community decision making.
The research targets technologies for advanced problem solving environments, reusable software needed for rapid intelligent data access and synthesis, integrated visualization and geographical information systems capabilities closely tied to environmental modeling, and scalable parallel computing and communications to support multi-disciplinary ecosystem risk assessments. Research in distributed computing provides for better access and management of large collections of environmental data and sharing of powerful computational resources needed to support advanced environmental problem solving.
To facilitate technology transfer of high-end environmental assessment tools to real world users, the EPA HPCC program is involved in a series of pilot projects. These projects provide for open communication of the needs of environmental scientists, analysts and decision makers.
FY 97 President's Request by Program Component Area
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| Program Activity | Budget Account Code | Partner/User Agencies | Budget (BA, $ M) | HPCC PCAs by 1997 Pres. Request | |||||||
| FY95 Actual | FY96 Pres. | FY96 Est. | FY97 Rqst. | HECC | LSN | HCS | HuCS | ETHR | |||
| Environmental Modeling | CC9, CC1 | NSF | 5.65 | 5.78 | 5.53 | 3.45 | 3.45 | ||||
| Computational Techniques | CC9, CC1, CA2 | DOE | 5.10 | 3.50 | 3.17 | 3.13 | 3.13 | ||||
| State Network Connectivity | CC9 | 0.69 | 0.69 | ||||||||
| Education/Training | CC9 | 0.69 | 1.01 | 0.08 | |||||||
| Public Data Access | CC9 | NASA, NOAA | 0.30 | 1.02 | 0.60 | 0.60 | 0.60 | ||||
| Totals: | 12.43 | 12.00 | 9.38 | 7.18 | 6.58 | 0.60 | |||||
Comparison of FY 97 and FY96 Budgets by Program Component Area
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| Program Activity | Budget (BA, $ M) | HPCC PCAs by 1997 Pres. Request | HPCC PCAs by 1996 Estimated | |||||||||||
| FY95 Actual | FY96 Pres. | FY96 Est. | FY97 Rqst. | HECC | LSN | HCS | HuCS | ETHR | HECC | LSN | HCS | HuCS | ETHR | |
| Environmental Modeling | 5.65 | 5.78 | 5.53 | 3.45 | 3.45 | 5.53 | ||||||||
| Computational Techniques | 5.10 | 3.50 | 3.17 | 3.13 | 3.13 | 3.17 | ||||||||
| State Network Connectivity | 0.69 | 0.69 | ||||||||||||
| Education/Training | 0.69 | 1.01 | 0.08 | 0.08 | ||||||||||
| Public Data Access | 0.30 | 1.02 | 0.60 | 0.60 | 0.60 | 0.60 | ||||||||
| Totals: | 12.43 | 12.00 | 9.38 | 7.18 | 6.58 | 0.60 | 8.70 | 0.60 | 0.08 | |||||
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