HEC Goals
(Updated January 2008)
The facilities and activities funded under the HEC I&A PCA are directed toward extending the state of the art in computing systems, science and engineering applications, and data management, thereby helping to keep the U.S. at the forefront of 21st century science and engineering discoveries. HEC researchers develop, deploy, and apply the most advanced hardware, systems, and applications software to model and simulate objects and processes in biology, chemistry, environmental sciences, materials science, nanoscale science and technology, and physics; address complex and computationally intensive national security applications; and perform large-scale data fusion and knowledge engineering.
The activities funded under the HEC R&D PCA include research and development activities to optimize the performance of today's high-end computing systems and to develop future generations of high-end computing systems necessary for meeting critical Federal agency mission and scientific and engineering needs, addressing many of society's most challenging large-scale computational problems, and strengthening the Nation's global leadership in science, engineering, and technology. Current research focuses on advanced computing architectures, software technologies and tools for high-end computing, mass storage technologies, and molecular, nano-, optical, quantum, and superconducting technologies.
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